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1. Bittersweet news from Groklaw: mission accomplished, signing off (groklaw.net)
303 points by grellas on April 9, 2011 | 64 comments
2. Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide (lighterra.com)
283 points by tizoc on April 9, 2011 | 30 comments
3. Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education (wsj.com)
269 points by mvs on April 9, 2011 | 46 comments
4. Wozniak: Innovative projects, not tests, should determine a student's grade (computerworld.com)
192 points by cwan on April 9, 2011 | 55 comments
5. One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves (pzxc.com)
193 points by pzxc on April 9, 2011 | 69 comments
6. Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf] (nytimes.com)
189 points by benjaminfox on April 9, 2011 | 91 comments
7. Larry Page's first blunder (computerworld.com)
162 points by fiaz on April 9, 2011 | 120 comments
8. MPlayer - Monday 18.4.2011 I will stop providing any service to MPlayer (mplayerhq.hu)
143 points by Uncle_Sam on April 9, 2011 | 22 comments
9. House tells FCC to drop net neutrality (boston.com)
127 points by knodi on April 9, 2011 | 93 comments
10. Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (ntlworld.com)
124 points by yzg_new on April 9, 2011 | 27 comments
11. Rate my App: Tea for iPhone--getting quantitative about tea (teaapp.com)
108 points by siglesias on April 9, 2011 | 59 comments
12. How Richard Feynman Thought (freakonomics.com)
105 points by cwan on April 9, 2011 | 3 comments
13. Russ Cox Uses This (usesthis.com)
98 points by flapjack on April 9, 2011 | 21 comments
14. Javascript hack weekend: Unique projects to inspire awesome hacks (nowjs.com)
83 points by ericz on April 9, 2011 | 11 comments
15. Opera launches Opera Mail web app (opera.com)
75 points by jannes on April 9, 2011 | 59 comments
16. Metrics Metrics Everywhere - Coda Hale at CodeConf (docs.google.com)
74 points by timf on April 9, 2011 | 14 comments
17. Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic (mpi-sws.org)
73 points by drey on April 9, 2011 | 12 comments
18. Ask HN: Has anyone had negative experiences with zeromq?
70 points by jrussbowman on April 9, 2011 | 26 comments
19. Perlin Noise (virgin.net)
67 points by jashmenn on April 9, 2011 | 16 comments
20. Amb in JavaScript (bazon.net)
66 points by mnemonik on April 9, 2011 | 5 comments
21. Java: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
66 points by Garbage on April 9, 2011 | 12 comments
22. Marco Arment on the Open Compute Project (marco.org)
65 points by cobrien on April 9, 2011 | 5 comments
23. Wikipedia over DNS (dgl.cx)
64 points by xtacy on April 9, 2011 | 16 comments
24. The Megabus Effect (businessweek.com)
63 points by dangoldin on April 9, 2011 | 35 comments
25. Don't Reinvent the Wheel (oscargodson.posterous.com)
60 points by brennannovak on April 9, 2011 | 68 comments
26. Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups (techcrunch.com)
53 points by timlindinct on April 9, 2011 | 38 comments
27. The bare essential guide to Emacs (eatingair.com)
48 points by hanszeir on April 9, 2011 | 17 comments
28. `gosh` is security theater for piped shell scripts (github.com/sstephenson)
48 points by sstephenson on April 9, 2011 | 26 comments
29. The loudness wars: Why music sounds worse (2009) (npr.org)
42 points by aycangulez on April 9, 2011 | 23 comments
30. Brian’s functional brain in Lisp (vs Clojure) (unwashedmeme.com)
38 points by gnosis on April 9, 2011 | 4 comments

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