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1.		In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley (quora.com)
		406 points by thinkcomp on May 11, 2011 \| 208 comments
2.		FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue (aclu.org)
		395 points by trotsky on May 11, 2011 \| 72 comments
3.		Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS (palm.com)
		294 points by unwiredben on May 11, 2011 \| 166 comments
4.		Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app (iflowreader.com)
		281 points by mikecane on May 11, 2011 \| 160 comments
5.		Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL (chrome.google.com)
		234 points by patrickaljord on May 11, 2011 \| 83 comments
6.		Google Storage Now Available To Developers (code.google.com)
		221 points by ASUmusicMAN on May 11, 2011 \| 60 comments
7.		CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders (layerstyles.org)
		180 points by daleharvey on May 11, 2011 \| 35 comments
8.		Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN (pintpay.com)
		180 points by gpl1 on May 11, 2011 \| 87 comments
9.		"The worst algorithm in the world?" (bosker.wordpress.com)
		161 points by mccutchen on May 11, 2011 \| 69 comments
10.		Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts (stackoverflow.com)
		155 points by fogus on May 11, 2011 \| 67 comments
11.		After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commissioner becomes Comcast lobbyist (arstechnica.com)
		155 points by kmfrk on May 11, 2011 \| 69 comments
12.		The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see (biketek.com)
		154 points by eykanal on May 11, 2011 \| 95 comments
13.		Why Google Does Not Own Skype (cnn.com)
		151 points by vladd on May 11, 2011 \| 91 comments
14.		C to Go: Could Go replace C? (stanford.edu)
		144 points by hanszeir on May 11, 2011 \| 154 comments
15.		How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated (acumenholdings.com)
		145 points by joshclemence on May 11, 2011 \| 25 comments
16.		Google lobbies Nevada to allow driverless cars (nytimes.com)
		133 points by nkassis on May 11, 2011 \| 101 comments
17.		Bootstrap Marketing: Ideas that don't suck (spencerfry.com)
		122 points by bry on May 11, 2011 \| 19 comments
18.		Google Tasks API Released (code.google.com)
		121 points by nikosdimopoulos on May 11, 2011 \| 39 comments
19.		Programming is… (mrclay.org)
		116 points by Concours on May 11, 2011 \| 23 comments
20.		Bret Victor on working at Apple. (worrydream.com)
		116 points by endergen on May 11, 2011 \| 68 comments
21.		Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months (calnewport.com)
		114 points by da5e on May 11, 2011 \| 49 comments
22.		Ask HN: any of the HNers have kids & work from home?
		112 points by Jem on May 11, 2011 \| 97 comments
23.		It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL." (basho.com)
		115 points by pharkmillups on May 11, 2011 \| 64 comments
24.		Google to Announce Chrome Laptops for Students - $20/Month (blogs.forbes.com)
		99 points by Kylekramer on May 11, 2011 \| 41 comments
25.		BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance (techdirt.com)
		97 points by grellas on May 11, 2011 \| 43 comments
26.		Angry Birds on Chrome (angrybirds.com)
		96 points by gabaix on May 11, 2011 \| 30 comments
27.		Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk (alpha.gov.uk)
		90 points by gorm on May 11, 2011 \| 41 comments
28.		How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly? (english.stackexchange.com)
		86 points by m_myers on May 11, 2011 \| 19 comments
29.		How TheLadders.com scam works (corcodilos.com)
		86 points by ecaron on May 11, 2011 \| 31 comments
30.		How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs (dynatrace.com)
		82 points by kumarshantanu on May 11, 2011 \| 7 comments
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