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1. Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion (wsj.com)
421 points by riordan on May 10, 2011 | 271 comments
2. Let’s mug a startup founder (thinkvitamin.com)
326 points by pdelgallego on May 10, 2011 | 76 comments
3. Google Code University (code.google.com)
292 points by franze on May 10, 2011 | 39 comments
4. Google App Engine for Go (code.google.com)
227 points by odovdor on May 10, 2011 | 70 comments
5. Kill Math (worrydream.com)
227 points by pw on May 10, 2011 | 108 comments
6. How to Email Busy People (humbledmba.com)
221 points by jaf12duke on May 10, 2011 | 60 comments
7. Love in GIT (gnome.org)
219 points by edu on May 10, 2011 | 27 comments
8. WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize (reuters.com)
203 points by zephyrfalcon on May 10, 2011 | 73 comments
9. -- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • •• -• •--- •- •••- •- ••• -•-• •-• •• •--• - (mattt.github.com)
180 points by matttthompson on May 10, 2011 | 40 comments
10. SLR Camera Simulator (camerasim.com)
176 points by kmfrk on May 10, 2011 | 84 comments
11. Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends (mashable.com)
182 points by pg on May 10, 2011 | 30 comments
12. Microsoft to acquire Skype (microsoft.com)
174 points by ukdm on May 10, 2011 | 85 comments
13. Y Combinator Accepts Record 60+ New Startups For Summer 2011 (techcrunch.com)
151 points by acrum on May 10, 2011 | 92 comments
14. Apple App Approval Tips Nobody Told Me About (buzzwordcompliant.net)
139 points by michaelbuckbee on May 10, 2011 | 38 comments
15. PR firm pushing anti-Google message for undisclosed client (pastebin.com)
133 points by tytso on May 10, 2011 | 57 comments
16. The Co-Founder Mythology (bothsidesofthetable.com)
130 points by razin on May 10, 2011 | 28 comments
17. Android Open Accessory Development Kit | Android Developers (android.com)
127 points by atularora on May 10, 2011 | 30 comments
18. Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse (wikipedia.org)
118 points by VeXocide on May 10, 2011 | 12 comments
19. Robots.txt is a suicide note (archiveteam.org)
115 points by panza on May 10, 2011 | 91 comments
20. MySQL Text vs. Varchar Performance (nicj.net)
112 points by mrdraper on May 10, 2011 | 20 comments
21. Depression May Be Foretold in How We Remember (nytimes.com)
110 points by tokenadult on May 10, 2011 | 16 comments
22. The Year Ahead for Google App Engine (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
83 points by vanni on May 10, 2011 | 29 comments
23. Google App Engine 1.5.0 released (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
84 points by mattrjacobs on May 10, 2011 | 19 comments
24. DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too. (naclbox.com)
78 points by k00k on May 10, 2011 | 16 comments
25. It is good to have friends (jacquesmattheij.com)
75 points by swombat on May 10, 2011 | 6 comments
26. Hands-on Node.js book (nodetuts.com)
75 points by rodh257 on May 10, 2011 | 17 comments
27. Google Announces Admin-Free Chrome Frame Installs For IE (techcrunch.com)
74 points by guptaneil on May 10, 2011 | 25 comments
28. Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants (wired.com)
71 points by ygreek on May 10, 2011 | 37 comments
29. Google Music Service (music.google.com)
70 points by joao on May 10, 2011 | 90 comments
30. The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers seized (arstechnica.com)
67 points by thornjm on May 10, 2011 | 24 comments

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