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1.		"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday (edweissman.com)
		467 points by edw519 on May 19, 2011 \| 62 comments
2.		Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA (nsa.gov)
		396 points by hyyypr on May 19, 2011 \| 97 comments
3.		Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do (f1fanatic.co.uk)
		345 points by Arjuna on May 19, 2011 \| 154 comments
4.		Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead (techdirt.com)
		262 points by zohaibr on May 19, 2011 \| 95 comments
5.		LNKD IPO opens huge at $83 (google.com)
		190 points by j_b_f on May 19, 2011 \| 154 comments
6.		Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There (techcrunch.com)
		184 points by pirate_is_back on May 19, 2011 \| 53 comments
7.		Scale Fail (part 1) (lwn.net)
		178 points by ableal on May 19, 2011 \| 37 comments
8.		WeekendHacker.net - A place for very small projects (weekendhacker.net)
		176 points by ThomPete on May 19, 2011 \| 47 comments
9.		Google vows to fight antipiracy bill even if passed (cnet.com)
		169 points by urbannomad on May 19, 2011 \| 46 comments
10.		Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books (corporate-ir.net)
		160 points by mikecane on May 19, 2011 \| 67 comments
11.		If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot (ozlabs.org)
		160 points by neckbeard on May 19, 2011 \| 47 comments
12.		I refuse to tolerate assholes (jacobian.org)
		144 points by taylorbuley on May 19, 2011 \| 87 comments
13.		Google's Eric Schmidt: Blocking File-Sharing Sites Would Make U.S. Like China (latimes.com)
		134 points by gatsby on May 19, 2011 \| 27 comments
14.		"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics (nih.gov)
		120 points by krishna2 on May 19, 2011 \| 61 comments
15.		False Start: Google proposal reduces SSL handshake to single round-trip (theregister.co.uk)
		118 points by chrisaycock on May 19, 2011 \| 41 comments
16.		William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens (latimes.com)
		117 points by rbanffy on May 19, 2011 \| 62 comments
17.		32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated (speckyboy.com)
		111 points by janektm on May 19, 2011 \| 15 comments
18.		Why not mmap? (useless-factor.blogspot.com)
		94 points by nkurz on May 19, 2011 \| 25 comments
19.		GNOME Discusses Becoming a Linux-only Project (osnews.com)
		87 points by pdelgallego on May 19, 2011 \| 58 comments
20.		Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development (getskeleton.com)
		85 points by franze on May 19, 2011 \| 7 comments
21.		Interview with Ken Thompson - on writing Unix, Go language and Dennis Ritchie (drdobbs.com)
		68 points by jemeshsu on May 19, 2011 \| 19 comments
22.		San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ of AIDS (rawstory.com)
		65 points by inshane on May 19, 2011 \| 41 comments
23.		How many ANDs and ORs does it take... Low-level bitwhacking at its most fun. (swtch.com)
		64 points by uriel on May 19, 2011 \| 8 comments
24.		Things You Could Buy for $4B Instead of LinkedIn (seekingalpha.com)
		62 points by psawaya on May 19, 2011 \| 33 comments
25.		Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists (digitaltrends.com)
		61 points by nprincigalli on May 19, 2011 \| 22 comments
26.		Take a stand against patent trolls (internetretailer.com)
		60 points by chwolfe on May 19, 2011 \| 26 comments
27.		Node.js training exercises, in CoffeeScript (gist.github.com)
		57 points by bergie on May 19, 2011 \| 5 comments
28.		A Country Without Libraries (nybooks.com)
		56 points by wyclif on May 19, 2011 \| 31 comments
29.		Google And Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple The Keys To The Cloud Music Kingdom (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by ssclafani on May 19, 2011 \| 64 comments
30.		Hacking the American Dream (mike-hostetler.com)
		53 points by elijahmanor on May 19, 2011 \| 4 comments
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