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1.
Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves (singularityhub.com)
486 points by kkleiner on May 12, 2011 | 205 comments
2.
The Ballmer Days Are Over (brooksreview.net)
420 points by showngo on May 12, 2011 | 212 comments
3.
Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent (luminarious.tumblr.com)
268 points by luminarious on May 12, 2011 | 186 comments
4.
FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II) (aclu.org)
226 points by trotsky on May 12, 2011 | 21 comments
5.
Heroku architecture (quora.com)
221 points by helwr on May 12, 2011 | 17 comments
6.
ROME HTML5 demo (ro.me)
204 points by pfleidi on May 12, 2011 | 61 comments
7.
Show HN: New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum (codeyouridea.com)
195 points by anto210 on May 12, 2011 | 111 comments
8.
This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage (shamusyoung.com)
197 points by rflrob on May 12, 2011 | 27 comments
9.
Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails (activeadmin.info)
190 points by gregbell on May 12, 2011 | 40 comments
10.
Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press (venturebeat.com)
173 points by evo_9 on May 12, 2011 | 31 comments
11.
Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters (makezine.com)
162 points by ptorrone on May 12, 2011 | 34 comments
12.
New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied... (macsales.com)
159 points by zdw on May 12, 2011 | 94 comments
13.
What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #1/3 (llvm.org)
155 points by zeugma on May 12, 2011 | 18 comments
14.
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google (thedailybeast.com)
148 points by ssclafani on May 12, 2011 | 7 comments
15.
Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome (tbbuck.com)
150 points by mootothemax on May 12, 2011 | 46 comments
16.
Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers (seobook.com)
136 points by raphaelb on May 12, 2011 | 70 comments
17.
The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games] (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
135 points by ab9 on May 12, 2011 | 26 comments
18.
Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka (typesafe.com)
135 points by mthomas on May 12, 2011 | 94 comments
19.
Python for Fun (openbookproject.net)
127 points by niels_olson on May 12, 2011 | 5 comments
20.
Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?
116 points by fatpanda on May 12, 2011 | 67 comments
21.
How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email (yahoo.com)
110 points by luigi on May 12, 2011 | 109 comments
22.
Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)
108 points by sp332 on May 12, 2011 | 51 comments
23.
The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other (io9.com)
94 points by DanielRibeiro on May 12, 2011 | 67 comments
24.
Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (2008) (lkml.org)
91 points by vog on May 12, 2011 | 54 comments
25.
Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM (digitizor.com)
89 points by dkd903 on May 12, 2011 | 55 comments
26.
How Google Controls Android: Digging into the Skyhook Filings (thisismynext.com)
82 points by kenjackson on May 12, 2011 | 19 comments
27.
The New Tech Bubble (economist.com)
83 points by ireadzalot on May 12, 2011 | 31 comments
28.
A brief experiment with PyPy (lwn.net)
83 points by jnoller on May 12, 2011 | 23 comments
29.
5,000 megapixel photo of night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures (skysurvey.org)
72 points by ssclafani on May 12, 2011 | 10 comments
30.
Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth (bbc.co.uk)
72 points by miraj on May 12, 2011 | 11 comments

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