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1. LevelDB: a fast and lightweight key/value database library (code.google.com)
232 points by adulau on May 8, 2011 | 79 comments
2. 2011 Logo Trends (logolounge.com)
204 points by tortilla on May 8, 2011 | 18 comments
3. Google I/O 2011 Countdown clock (google.com)
144 points by abhishektwr on May 8, 2011 | 29 comments
4. There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and " (wonko.com)
138 points by jamesbritt on May 8, 2011 | 30 comments
5. Congress Bans Some Scientific Collaboration with China, Citing Espionage Risk (blogs.forbes.com)
134 points by trotsky on May 8, 2011 | 71 comments
6. Readable: A more readable version of "readability" (tastefulwords.com)
138 points by jbm on May 8, 2011 | 92 comments
7. How To: Spend your investors’ money (stu.mp)
128 points by jnoller on May 8, 2011 | 24 comments
8. Bitcoin iOS app open sourced (github.com/udibr)
125 points by milkshakes on May 8, 2011 | 30 comments
9. Leaving Google (douweosinga.com)
112 points by antichaos on May 8, 2011 | 37 comments
10. Solar Fire Breakthrough (openfarmtech.org)
108 points by ph0rque on May 8, 2011 | 18 comments
11. Instapaper like Article Extractor open sourced (github.com/jiminoc)
106 points by beagledude on May 8, 2011 | 13 comments
12. The Don Stewart Method: write code every day, release a project every week (shimweasel.com)
104 points by ionfish on May 8, 2011 | 29 comments
13. Unthinking Machines: Artificial intelligence needs a reboot, say experts (technologyreview.com)
95 points by pldpld on May 8, 2011 | 62 comments
14. How Dead is WebOS? (kiwiluv.com)
96 points by spicerunner on May 8, 2011 | 60 comments
15. U.S Unemployment By Education Level (bls.gov)
91 points by shrikant on May 8, 2011 | 63 comments
16. Practical NoSQL - Solving a Real Problem with MongoDB and Redis (openmymind.net)
89 points by latch on May 8, 2011 | 12 comments
17. The Free Software Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations (fsf.org)
83 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 8, 2011 | 16 comments
18. $400 bounty started for "simple" OSS node.js module (groups.google.com)
89 points by reddittor on May 8, 2011 | 44 comments
19. Live to hack, hack to live (inspirated.com)
82 points by J3L2404 on May 8, 2011 | 7 comments
20. The Next 10 Years Will Be Great For Both Founders And VCs (techcrunch.com)
81 points by Swizec on May 8, 2011 | 26 comments
21. My first iPad game: Stats and lessons (whatupdave.com)
81 points by whatupdave on May 8, 2011 | 15 comments
22. Why there are so many engineers in India (thenextweb.com)
78 points by siddhant on May 8, 2011 | 64 comments
23. X Factor & fox.com hacked, contestants database leaked (thepiratebay.org)
78 points by temptemptemp13 on May 8, 2011 | 21 comments
24. June 8th: the day your phone won’t stop ringing (ioshints.info)
71 points by Uncle_Sam on May 8, 2011 | 14 comments
25. Not Invented Here and New Programmers (webicity.info)
70 points by Macha on May 8, 2011 | 24 comments
26. Neat Algorithms - Harmony Search (harry.me)
65 points by hbrundage on May 8, 2011 | 8 comments
27. PowerShell Specification licensed under the Community Promise (msdn.com)
65 points by brudgers on May 8, 2011 | 37 comments
28. I made a game for Xbox Live Indie Games. Here are the sales stats. (nonegames.net)
64 points by noneTheHacker on May 8, 2011 | 19 comments
29. Campher: Perl embedded in Go (github.com/bradfitz)
57 points by icey on May 8, 2011 | 9 comments
30. Online SVG figures with Haskell (elte.hu)
56 points by njs12345 on May 8, 2011 | 10 comments

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