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91.
China Builds Desert Ghost Cities (bloomberg.com)
10 points by chailatte on May 17, 2011 | 4 comments
92.
Some (unscientific) evidence of NoSQL adoption (noshpetigara.com)
12 points by nosh on May 17, 2011
93.
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com)
10 points by jdp23 on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
94.
Philadelphia University Commencement Speech by Steve Blank (steveblank.com)
9 points by harscoat on May 17, 2011
95.
Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices (guardian.co.uk)
9 points by J3L2404 on May 17, 2011
96.
Adam Cohen: Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? (quora.com)
9 points by kmavm on May 17, 2011 | 2 comments
97.
Ask HN: Technical skills needed for any Google interview/job?
9 points by citizenkeys on May 17, 2011 | 3 comments
98.
Passing a Language through the Eye of a Needle (Lua design) (acm.org)
9 points by zdw on May 17, 2011
99.
How did YouTube acquired its first 10,000 users?
9 points by huuleon on May 17, 2011 | 3 comments
100.
Ask HN: Help Name Our Company - Get $1,000
9 points by jme27 on May 17, 2011 | 33 comments
101.
Show HN: How HN helped us pay for our wedding.
8 points by todd3834 on May 17, 2011 | 12 comments
102.
Why Startups Fail (chubbybrain.com)
8 points by cwan on May 17, 2011
103.
Supreme Court OKs Warrantless House Search (wired.com)
8 points by llambda on May 17, 2011
104.
Ask HN: Which business model - monthly recurring billing vs. pay-per-sale?
8 points by fezzl on May 17, 2011 | 12 comments
105.
ISPs deploying rewriting proxies on web content (blog.mozilla.com)
8 points by sayrer on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
106.
Show HN: iPhone/iPod App to Find Domains (domaingroovy.com)
7 points by Jasber on May 17, 2011 | 11 comments
107.
Bitcoin is the Wikileaks of Monetary Policy (launch.is)
7 points by jasonmcalacanis on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
108.
The Developer's Code: Lessons, Observations, Advice ... (thedeveloperscode.com)
7 points by Deprecated on May 17, 2011
109.
Switching from OS X to Ubuntu - no problem (guardian.co.uk)
7 points by macco on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
110.
Tardigrades: Water bears in space (bbc.co.uk)
7 points by J3L2404 on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
111.
The Lost Origin of Twitter (wired.com)
7 points by ssclafani on May 17, 2011
112.
SMSified Launches - Simple, REST-based API for sending and receiving SMS (smsified.com)
10 points by danyork on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
113.
Drib: open source packaging and deployment script (github.com/traviskuhl)
7 points by traviskuhl on May 17, 2011
114.
There is no heaven: Hawking (inquisitr.com)
7 points by BANSAL on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
115.
How To Go Completely Paperless In School (mmoorejones.com)
6 points by bookmadgirl on May 17, 2011
116.
Forth Haikus (forthsalon.appspot.com)
6 points by jamesbowman on May 17, 2011 | 1 comment
117.
Why Bing Could Beat Google in Social Search (readwriteweb.com)
6 points by GeoffreyHull on May 17, 2011 | 5 comments
118.
How the iPhone 4's noise cancellation technology works (thenextweb.com)
6 points by jeffwidman on May 17, 2011 | 2 comments
119.
Instant.io - Massive Google Translate (built in 8 hours) (instant.io)
6 points by feross on May 17, 2011 | 6 comments
120.
An HTML5 Resources Round-Up (websitesmaderight.com)
6 points by ichilton on May 17, 2011

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