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1. LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug (wired.com)
417 points by mkrecny on April 29, 2011 | 293 comments
2. AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem (amazon.com)
385 points by teoruiz on April 29, 2011 | 101 comments
3. Geohot Chimes In (geohotgotsued.blogspot.com)
247 points by shawndumas on April 29, 2011 | 96 comments
4. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (nist.gov)
242 points by urbannomad on April 29, 2011 | 16 comments
5. Mozilla Chromeless 0.2 (mozillalabs.com)
207 points by abraham on April 29, 2011 | 70 comments
6. Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage (netflix.com)
192 points by ravstr on April 29, 2011 | 16 comments
7. Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space (nasa.gov)
187 points by pwg on April 29, 2011 | 64 comments
8. Top 6 List of Programming Top Lists (codinghorror.com)
153 points by urbannomad on April 29, 2011 | 18 comments
9. Ultra-Light Titanium Ribbon Bike Lock (kickstarter.com)
133 points by thangalin on April 29, 2011 | 44 comments
10. Play by Play: Zed Shaw (peepcode.com)
133 points by kmfrk on April 29, 2011 | 35 comments
11. Fructose: compile Ruby into PHP (fructoselang.org)
127 points by cygwin98 on April 29, 2011 | 52 comments
12. AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (comcast.net)
117 points by rbanffy on April 29, 2011 | 12 comments
13. Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years (mashable.com)
116 points by mapk on April 29, 2011 | 81 comments
14. I am starting a company in Chile (amix.dk)
111 points by wslh on April 29, 2011 | 47 comments
15. Has anyone noticed this before? HN: Best Of (news.ycombinator.com)
101 points by derrida on April 29, 2011 | 23 comments
16. Learn You Some Erlang: Building an Application With OTP (learnyousomeerlang.com)
82 points by icey on April 29, 2011 | 6 comments
17. On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student (calnewport.com)
81 points by da5e on April 29, 2011 | 39 comments
18. Anatomy of a $1M Seed Round (slideshare.net)
77 points by robg on April 29, 2011 | 6 comments
19. SMS from Chrome, fully sync'd with your Android phone (chrome.google.com)
80 points by maneesh1 on April 29, 2011 | 52 comments
20. CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (pragprog.com)
76 points by shawndumas on April 29, 2011 | 46 comments
21. Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX (businessweek.com)
75 points by MikeCapone on April 29, 2011 | 9 comments
22. Perl Programming Best Practices (ontwik.com)
74 points by hmade on April 29, 2011 | 29 comments
23. Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze (timeslot.me)
71 points by chetan51 on April 29, 2011 | 50 comments
24. France Is Dropping Concrete Bombs (theatlanticwire.com)
68 points by riffer on April 29, 2011 | 26 comments
25. Node.js has a trademark now (nodejs.org)
70 points by NSMeta on April 29, 2011 | 35 comments
26. Readme Driven Development (preston-werner.com)
69 points by shawndumas on April 29, 2011 | 9 comments
27. New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government's Surveillance Spyware (eff.org)
66 points by grellas on April 29, 2011 | 12 comments
28. Theo Jansen's 3D Printed Strandbeests (shapeways.com)
59 points by mhb on April 29, 2011 | 10 comments
29. Nokia: "We will not adopt Windows Phone environment as it is seen today" (arcticstartup.com)
61 points by vilpponen on April 29, 2011 | 53 comments
30. How to roll out your own Javascript API with V8 (syskall.com)
57 points by olalonde on April 29, 2011 | 8 comments

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