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1. The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours (rescuetime.com)
169 points by jazzychad on May 24, 2010 | 59 comments
2. The Secret Lives of Professors (What Being a Professor is Really Like) (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
168 points by sinc on May 24, 2010 | 56 comments
3. Advanced programming languages (might.net)
131 points by Rickasaurus on May 24, 2010 | 81 comments
4. Bending over: How to sell to large companies (asmartbear.com)
130 points by jonpaul on May 24, 2010 | 28 comments
5. Touristiness heatmap by number of public photos (maps.google.com)
105 points by vl on May 24, 2010 | 42 comments
6. Ejection Seats (steveblank.com)
98 points by alanthonyc on May 24, 2010 | 22 comments
7. The Twitter Platform (blog.twitter.com)
91 points by salar on May 24, 2010 | 53 comments
8. Benchmark of PyPy, Unladen S., Jython, CPython, Psyco in Rastrigin optimization (sourceforge.net)
87 points by perone on May 24, 2010 | 17 comments
9. Profitable and proud: Campaign Monitor (37signals.com)
86 points by luckystrike on May 24, 2010 | 14 comments
10. The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield (tallguywrites.livejournal.com)
86 points by _zhqs on May 24, 2010 | 44 comments
11. And, Why Didn't Dijkstra Like Lisp? (kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com)
86 points by fogus on May 24, 2010 | 44 comments
12. Flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban. Please review. (flow.io)
78 points by aycangulez on May 24, 2010 | 41 comments
13. Google's AdSense Revenue Share (adsense.blogspot.com)
78 points by gavingmiller on May 24, 2010 | 42 comments
14. Humans: Why They Triumphed (wsj.com)
76 points by roqetman on May 24, 2010 | 47 comments
15. URLs are the uniform way to locate resources (heroku.com)
75 points by sublemonic on May 24, 2010 | 20 comments
16. The Emacs Problem (sites.google.com)
73 points by mofey on May 24, 2010 | 40 comments
17. Slate's experiment on implanting false memories (slate.com)
72 points by jessekeys on May 24, 2010 | 17 comments
18. How Google Maps splits the world in 2^20 256x256 tiles (2006) (savagexi.com)
72 points by codesink on May 24, 2010 | 22 comments
19. Zuckerberg responds to privacy concerns (washingtonpost.com)
69 points by evancaine on May 24, 2010 | 66 comments
20. Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right (storagemojo.com)
66 points by twampss on May 24, 2010 | 61 comments
21. Bespin to move to Node.js (groups.google.com)
64 points by vier on May 24, 2010 | 7 comments
22. Manhattanhenge (haydenplanetarium.org)
63 points by icey on May 24, 2010 | 4 comments
23. Winner of The Attention Contest (dilbert.com)
62 points by dan_sim on May 24, 2010 | 15 comments
24. DuckDuckGo featured on Lifehacker (lifehacker.com)
55 points by jordanmessina on May 24, 2010 | 39 comments
25. Extracting hidden data from an audio file with the FFT (wolchok.org)
52 points by swolchok on May 24, 2010 | 27 comments
26. Tell HN: Add a '+' to the end of any bit.ly link to get the full URL.
50 points by sp332 on May 24, 2010 | 30 comments
27. Mark Zuckberg’s Non-Apology: Facebook Screwed up with Privacy. But Keep Sharing (allthingsd.com)
47 points by aj on May 24, 2010 | 14 comments
28. The quintessential rational mind: Buddha (hindu.com)
47 points by sree_nair on May 24, 2010 | 25 comments
29. The application deadline for Work at a Startup is tomorrow (ycombinator.posterous.com)
46 points by pg on May 24, 2010 | 5 comments
30. Node.net - Node.js implemented in Javascript on the .NET runtime (github.com/dnewcome)
45 points by pufuwozu on May 24, 2010 | 14 comments

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