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1. Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life (justinvincent.com)
607 points by jv22222 on March 17, 2011 | 227 comments
2. Don't distract new programmers with OOP (dadgum.com)
248 points by angrycoder on March 17, 2011 | 154 comments
3. Imagine K12 (ycombinator.com)
230 points by pg on March 17, 2011 | 81 comments
4. You can't do that (jacquesmattheij.com)
218 points by vijaydev on March 17, 2011 | 88 comments
5. Save IE6 (saveie6.com)
215 points by yannickmahe on March 17, 2011 | 72 comments
6. This is why I sell beer. (jwz.livejournal.com)
179 points by bigiain on March 17, 2011 | 67 comments
7. Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games (techcrunch.com)
148 points by lachyg on March 17, 2011 | 80 comments
8. PNG that works (perfplanet.com)
135 points by CrazedGeek on March 17, 2011 | 39 comments
9. Moki.tv (YC W11) is TV Guide for Online Movies & TV (techcrunch.com)
120 points by rottencupcakes on March 17, 2011 | 16 comments
10. JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis (ejohn.org)
119 points by sant0sk1 on March 17, 2011 | 28 comments
11. IPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing (techinch.com)
116 points by maguay on March 17, 2011 | 98 comments
12. New Chrome Logo (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
111 points by Garbage on March 17, 2011 | 73 comments
13. Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0 (winrumors.com)
104 points by creamhackered on March 17, 2011 | 51 comments
14. Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata (notdot.net)
99 points by mbowcock on March 17, 2011 | 8 comments
15. Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices (isobar.com)
98 points by oewolf on March 17, 2011 | 22 comments
16. Why I'm Glad I Got Fired (hbr.org)
94 points by acconrad on March 17, 2011 | 31 comments
17. RSA hit by targeted attacks, SecurID 2-factor auth possibly compromised (rsa.com)
86 points by ssclafani on March 17, 2011 | 41 comments
18. Judge gives Sony access to PS3 hacker's PayPal records (arstechnica.com)
83 points by liquid_x on March 17, 2011 | 24 comments
19. C? Go? Cgo (golang.org)
79 points by fogus on March 17, 2011 | 24 comments
20. Wave Disk Engine Could Be 3.5 Times More Efficient Than Combustion Engines (nextbigfuture.com)
78 points by DanielN on March 17, 2011 | 39 comments
21. Your Web, Half a Second Sooner (googlecode.blogspot.com)
77 points by taylorbuley on March 17, 2011 | 37 comments
22. Curebit (YC W11) productizes the Dropbox referral system (mashable.com)
76 points by allangrant on March 17, 2011 | 23 comments
23. The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28 (nytimes.com)
76 points by joshwa on March 17, 2011 | 121 comments
24. On being startled by a programming language (bbot.org)
66 points by sbierwagen on March 17, 2011 | 49 comments
25. Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Other iOS Apps (daringfireball.net)
65 points by danilocampos on March 17, 2011 | 79 comments
26. A new class of Internet start-ups is trying to turn data into money (economist.com)
66 points by ithayer on March 17, 2011 | 14 comments
27. Titles and Promotions (Ben Horowitz) (bhorowitz.com)
65 points by amirmc on March 17, 2011 | 15 comments
28. Visa to Offer Person-to-person Payments (to compete with PayPal) (pcworld.com)
65 points by srgseg on March 17, 2011 | 28 comments
29. Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system (csail.mit.edu)
64 points by fogus on March 17, 2011 | 4 comments
30. Not in the Valley. Not funded. Not an overnight success. (mixergy.com)
65 points by AndrewWarner on March 17, 2011 | 1 comment

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