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1.
Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month? (quora.com)
264 points by ljdk on May 14, 2011 | 121 comments
2.
How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? (nytimes.com)
229 points by robg on May 14, 2011 | 88 comments
3.
Why Microsoft bought Skype (cringely.com)
188 points by evo_9 on May 14, 2011 | 87 comments
4.
Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses? (law.harvard.edu)
184 points by spottiness on May 14, 2011 | 165 comments
5.
What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #2/3 (llvm.org)
172 points by ryannielsen on May 14, 2011 | 43 comments
6.
America's License Raj (economist.com)
144 points by tokenadult on May 14, 2011 | 64 comments
7.
Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone (techcrunch.com)
130 points by RyanAmos on May 14, 2011 | 99 comments
8.
Beats Drum Machine (beatsdrummachine.com)
129 points by thmzlt on May 14, 2011 | 31 comments
9.
Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
129 points by Panos on May 14, 2011 | 20 comments
10.
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest (businessweek.com)
124 points by daniel02216 on May 14, 2011 | 79 comments
11.
Namecoin: Distributed (p2p) domain registration system based on bitcoin (dot-bit.org)
102 points by elliottcarlson on May 14, 2011 | 35 comments
12.
Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them (pbs.org)
99 points by miraj on May 14, 2011 | 86 comments
13.
Learning to Love JavaScript (ontwik.com)
88 points by ahmicro on May 14, 2011 | 4 comments
14.
HN: I want to trade my finance knowledge for python/django mentorship
78 points by zallarak on May 14, 2011 | 44 comments
15.
Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition (bhorowitz.com)
77 points by geoffschmidt on May 14, 2011 | 18 comments
16.
The Dark Side of C++ (2007) (fefe.de)
76 points by KonradKlause on May 14, 2011 | 53 comments
17.
America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure (wunderground.com)
74 points by cypherpunks01 on May 14, 2011 | 12 comments
18.
GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP (planet.gnu.org)
68 points by Grauwolf on May 14, 2011 | 11 comments
19.
Thoughts on Learning Emacs (wideaperture.net)
54 points by codeup on May 14, 2011 | 21 comments
20.
Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL (catpad.net)
53 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2011 | 22 comments
21.
Why C++ is vastly superior to C (povusers.org)
48 points by tree_of_item on May 14, 2011 | 119 comments
22.
Is Rejection Painful? Actually, It Is (nytimes.com)
46 points by robg on May 14, 2011 | 13 comments
23.
 Following the White Rabbit: Software Attacks Against Intel VT-d (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
37 points by wglb on May 14, 2011 | 6 comments
24.
Should Smallpox Be Put To Death? (uchicago.edu)
36 points by davi on May 14, 2011 | 28 comments
25.
Forget Me Not - How to win the U.S. memory championship. (slate.com)
36 points by senthil_rajasek on May 14, 2011 | 23 comments
26.
Parc Fires Back at New Yorker, Claims Gladwell Misses How Innovation Works (xconomy.com)
35 points by robertbud1 on May 14, 2011 | 11 comments
27.
The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory (thinq.co.uk)
35 points by ColinWright on May 14, 2011 | 6 comments
28.
Splinter: Python tool for acceptance tests on web applications (franciscosouza.com)
29 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2011 | 9 comments
29.
Google Go on App Engine (theregister.co.uk)
31 points by hanszeir on May 14, 2011 | 3 comments
30.
Apple's Open Source Releases (opensource.apple.com)
28 points by playhard on May 14, 2011 | 10 comments

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