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61.		Business Insider: Sexiest Programmers Alive (businessinsider.com)
		22 points by guiseppecalzone on May 27, 2011
62.		Google Prediction API helps apps to adapt and learn (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		22 points by smn on May 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
63.		Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting (cnet.com)
		22 points by jamesbritt on May 27, 2011 \| 33 comments
64.		Gecko-Inspired Window Washing Robot is Powered Entirely by Water (ieee.org)
		21 points by eguizzo on May 27, 2011 \| 6 comments
65.		Ask pg: Have the comments improved?
		22 points by crasshopper on May 27, 2011 \| 19 comments
66.		Internet: 2.6 jobs created for each job lost (PDF from McKinsey Study) (eg8forum.com)
		19 points by lostbit on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
67.		JSConf2011 - Andrew Dupont - Everything is Permitted: Extending Built-ins (blip.tv)
		19 points by jashkenas on May 27, 2011
68.		PayPal Sues Google Over Google Wallet (bloomberg.com)
		19 points by ssclafani on May 27, 2011
69.		Alex Payne — One Year In Portland (al3x.net)
		18 points by sahillavingia on May 27, 2011 \| 4 comments
70.		The Hangover and the Age of Jokeless Comedy (nytimes.com)
		18 points by tta on May 27, 2011 \| 4 comments
71.		LOLCats Get Serious: Comedy Network Hires Prominent Data Scientist (readwriteweb.com)
		17 points by mikeleeorg on May 27, 2011 \| 2 comments
72.		Welcome to the Anthropocene (economist.com)
		17 points by xbryanx on May 27, 2011
73.		Lockheed Martin suspends remote access after network 'intrusion' (theregister.co.uk)
		16 points by gaius on May 27, 2011
74.		Commodore 64 is back and running Linux (commodore-amiga.org)
		16 points by Corrado on May 27, 2011 \| 7 comments
75.		How Yelp Crushed Citysearch & Yahoo Local (searchengineland.com)
		15 points by msravi on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
76.		Ask HN: When was your "ah-ha" moment when learning how to program?
		14 points by ch00ey on May 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
77.		Ask HN: Where are the great scientific theories of our lifetime?
		14 points by alister on May 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
78.		Worlds best Tetris player (kottke.org)
		13 points by Gabriel_Martin on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
79.		The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated (code.google.com)
		13 points by w43l on May 27, 2011 \| 4 comments
80.		Things I Think I Learned At TechCrunch Disrupt (openforum.com)
		13 points by tomh on May 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
81.		Former CS professor of both Gates and Zuckerberg on dropping out of college (harry-lewis.blogspot.com)
		13 points by zachh on May 27, 2011 \| 2 comments
82.		Ask HN: Which translation API?
		13 points by kingofspain on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
83.		Technology Is Taking Jobs Away, But Here’s How It Might Give Them Back (xconomy.com)
		11 points by cwan on May 27, 2011 \| 26 comments
84.		Facebook is a living computer nightmare (textfiles.com)
		11 points by rl1987 on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
85.		Spotify asked SpotifyOnTheWeb to shut down (spotifyontheweb.com)
		11 points by kilian on May 27, 2011
86.		Mining for optimal assembly sequences (thecodecavern.co.uk)
		11 points by wbhart on May 27, 2011 \| 2 comments
87.		Ask HN: What are the barriers to micropayments?
		12 points by crasshopper on May 27, 2011 \| 17 comments
88.		Plivo - an MPL licensed alternative to Twilio (plivo.org)
		12 points by skue on May 27, 2011
89.		D-Wave Sells First Quantum Computer (hpcwire.com)
		10 points by naveensundar on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
90.		Popular CAPTCHA broken (idontplaydarts.com)
		10 points by Phil123 on May 27, 2011 \| 1 comment
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