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1. TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court (truecrypt.org)
488 points by dcevansiii on June 24, 2011 | 186 comments
2. How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design (getspace.org)
455 points by rabidpookey on June 24, 2011 | 72 comments
3. Team Fortress 2 now free forever (teamfortress.com)
423 points by cookiecaper on June 24, 2011 | 161 comments
4. Skype options turn out to be worthless (reuters.com)
343 points by TWAndrews on June 24, 2011 | 142 comments
5. Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End (christianjung.com)
251 points by railsjedi on June 24, 2011 | 96 comments
6. Facebook autobot going berserker (facebook.net)
250 points by ZeroC00l on June 24, 2011 | 153 comments
7. 10000 things all CS students should do before graduating (tagide.com)
237 points by amesign on June 24, 2011 | 160 comments
8. The Origin of the word Daemon (vt.edu)
215 points by Void_ on June 24, 2011 | 45 comments
9. Jeff Bezos commissioning a giant clock to last 10,000 years. (10000yearclock.net)
166 points by teej on June 24, 2011 | 61 comments
10. Instapaper Server Update (instapaper.com)
163 points by psychotik on June 24, 2011 | 47 comments
11. House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera (ucsd.edu)
133 points by nl on June 24, 2011 | 69 comments
12. Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note (youtube.com)
131 points by zoowar on June 24, 2011 | 110 comments
13. Profiling Go Programs (golang.org)
125 points by skymt on June 24, 2011 | 15 comments
14. Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work here, too. (reason.com)
109 points by mhb on June 24, 2011 | 52 comments
15. Only in Germany: An API with opening hours (bff-online.de)
100 points by Usul on June 24, 2011 | 76 comments
16. Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes (michaelnielsen.org)
96 points by the_gws on June 24, 2011 | 12 comments
17. Apple posts WWDC2011 session videos (developer.apple.com)
94 points by st3fan on June 24, 2011 | 38 comments
18. Camera+: The Road to 3 Million (infographic) (taptaptap.com)
92 points by Titanous on June 24, 2011 | 18 comments
19. Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash (shareable.net)
92 points by jtnl on June 24, 2011 | 18 comments
20. The origin of the name Posix. (stallman.org)
92 points by tjr on June 24, 2011 | 18 comments
21. House approves major overhaul of patent system (yahoo.com)
89 points by MichaelApproved on June 24, 2011 | 45 comments
22. CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
88 points by thomasbachem on June 24, 2011 | 27 comments
23. J.K. Rowling's Next Chapter: A Transfiguration Spell on the Publishing Industry (readwriteweb.com)
84 points by carusen on June 24, 2011 | 23 comments
24. MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel (techcrunch.com)
82 points by benreyes on June 24, 2011 | 21 comments
25. Google retires Google Health and PowerMeter projects (googleblog.blogspot.com)
84 points by rryan on June 24, 2011 | 40 comments
26. Starcraft in a bar? TwitchTV promoting social Starcraft in San Francisco (facebook.com)
89 points by justin on June 24, 2011 | 21 comments
27. Save Bistro Elan (paulgraham.com)
79 points by revorad on June 24, 2011 | 31 comments
28. Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions (mmodata.blogspot.com)
78 points by utoku on June 24, 2011 | 40 comments
29. The lsm command for Latent Semantic Mapping (developer.apple.com)
74 points by lars512 on June 24, 2011 | 18 comments
30. Fair use isn’t much good if you can’t afford it (gigaom.com)
67 points by nextparadigms on June 24, 2011 | 40 comments

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