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Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly (gmane.org)
323 points by BrandonM on May 26, 2011 | 55 comments
2.
Going Paper-Free for $220 (stevelosh.com)
302 points by stevelosh on May 26, 2011 | 125 comments
3.
Roger Ebert: The dying of the light (suntimes.com)
297 points by kyleslattery on May 26, 2011 | 75 comments
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1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen (bbc.co.uk)
268 points by srgseg on May 26, 2011 | 230 comments
5.
Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy (ryanelmquist.com)
237 points by HistoryInAction on May 26, 2011 | 131 comments
6.
Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act (arstechnica.com)
197 points by chanks on May 26, 2011 | 29 comments
7.
Coming soon: make your phone your wallet (googleblog.blogspot.com)
178 points by Uncle_Sam on May 26, 2011 | 97 comments
8.
BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers (returninfinity.com)
171 points by fogus on May 26, 2011 | 79 comments
9.
Advanced Google Analytics for Startups (thinkvitamin.com)
155 points by commondream on May 26, 2011 | 19 comments
10.
Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team (airbnb.com)
141 points by sinzone on May 26, 2011 | 90 comments
11.
Wield Python's super() like a Jedi (rhettinger.wordpress.com)
141 points by raymondh on May 26, 2011 | 63 comments
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1 in 5 APIs Say “Bye XML” - JSON gaining ground (programmableweb.com)
138 points by ChrisArchitect on May 26, 2011 | 63 comments
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Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing (backtype.com)
119 points by lzimm on May 26, 2011 | 46 comments
14.
Inmates forced to farm gold online in Chinese prisons (thenextweb.com)
118 points by arb99 on May 26, 2011 | 73 comments
15.
About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011 (blog.pinboard.in)
118 points by chl on May 26, 2011 | 34 comments
16.
IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student (blogs.forbes.com)
117 points by jmjerlecki on May 26, 2011 | 74 comments
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"Ballmer must go", lead investor tells conference (nytimes.com)
117 points by nikcub on May 26, 2011 | 51 comments
18.
It's Time for Bill Gates to Come Back to Microsoft (gdgt.com)
115 points by hornokplease on May 26, 2011 | 49 comments
19.
Work is Fascinating: The Metagame (yieldthought.com)
114 points by moconnor on May 26, 2011 | 21 comments
20.
ActiveMQ: Not ready for prime time (goodstuff.im)
96 points by sorenbs on May 26, 2011 | 91 comments
21.
Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation (lunduke.com)
94 points by planb on May 26, 2011 | 90 comments
22.
Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin (bitcoin-contact.org)
81 points by llambda on May 26, 2011 | 18 comments
23.
Rosetta Code: solutions to the same task in many languages (rosettacode.org)
80 points by derwiki on May 26, 2011 | 16 comments
24.
Cookie law makes most UK websites illegal: what you need to know (silktide.com)
75 points by Garbage on May 26, 2011 | 74 comments
25.
Skills a Designer Must Have when Working for a Startup (stylej.am)
64 points by stylejam on May 26, 2011 | 33 comments
26.
Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV (MIT OpenCourseWare) (ocw.mit.edu)
64 points by olalonde on May 26, 2011 | 13 comments
27.
The problem with blogging (swombat.com)
61 points by wheels on May 26, 2011 | 42 comments
28.
Google Wallet (google.com)
60 points by ssn on May 26, 2011 | 14 comments
29.
Compilers and Compiler Generators (ru.ac.za)
58 points by fogus on May 26, 2011 | 10 comments
30.
Oracle v. Google - A judge grounded in the real world (groklaw.net)
58 points by Garbage on May 26, 2011 | 9 comments

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