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1. HackerMed - My HN-like Site for Hackers Interested in Bio/Med (hackermed.com)
165 points by kyro on May 3, 2010 | 64 comments
2. Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition (robertfortner.posterous.com)
138 points by robertfortner on May 3, 2010 | 86 comments
3. PostgreSQL 9.0b1 with built-in replication support (postgresql.org)
135 points by andrevoget on May 3, 2010 | 23 comments
4. The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other (opazazzyzen.com)
133 points by ssclafani on May 3, 2010 | 32 comments
5. "Authentic" is dead (asmartbear.com)
120 points by earlyresort on May 3, 2010 | 48 comments
6. New Jailbreak for all iPhone OS 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 devices (including iPad) (spiritjb.com)
115 points by kacy on May 3, 2010 | 56 comments
7. Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1 (nypost.com)
109 points by brownegg on May 3, 2010 | 125 comments
8. People of class drink alcohol (discovermagazine.com)
89 points by iamelgringo on May 3, 2010 | 60 comments
9. Mistakes I've made, and what you might be able to learn from them (jacquesmattheij.com)
89 points by jacquesm on May 3, 2010 | 21 comments
10. If the TSA Were Running New York (theatlantic.com)
89 points by MaysonL on May 3, 2010 | 61 comments
11. Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days (ipadwatcher.com)
83 points by mlongo on May 3, 2010 | 108 comments
12. HP drops Windows 7 from 'Slate' tablet, will use WebOS (afterdawn.com)
79 points by raganwald on May 3, 2010 | 43 comments
13. Great Set of Sequence Diagrams Explaining HTTP over TCP/IP (eventhelix.com)
72 points by sh1mmer on May 3, 2010 | 8 comments
14. Features That Give Lisp Its Power (abhishek.geek.nz)
72 points by asimjalis on May 3, 2010 | 8 comments
15. Window indicators for Ubuntu ("windicators") (markshuttleworth.com)
69 points by ARR on May 3, 2010 | 36 comments
16. Clue: an ANSI C Compiler targetting high-level languages (sourceforge.net)
67 points by jasongullickson on May 3, 2010 | 17 comments
17. Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web. (tirania.org)
65 points by kssreeram on May 3, 2010 | 52 comments
18. MacRuby 0.6 Official Release (macruby.org)
64 points by sant0sk1 on May 3, 2010 | 21 comments
19. The Little JavaScripter (crockford.com)
61 points by shawndumas on May 3, 2010 | 6 comments
20. Matt Cutts: Android apps that I love (mattcutts.com)
59 points by yanw on May 3, 2010 | 42 comments
21. Fake 'Harry Potter' Books Written In China (11points.com)
58 points by mapleoin on May 3, 2010 | 17 comments
22. Bespin based IDE for processing (processing.org)
56 points by apgwoz on May 3, 2010 | 9 comments
23. Fsync() on a different thread: apparently a useless trick (antirez.com)
55 points by antirez on May 3, 2010 | 22 comments
24. Have an online store? What you need to do by July 1. (sinard.com)
53 points by ten7 on May 3, 2010 | 31 comments
25. Facebook Delete Button (facebook.com)
50 points by chegra84 on May 3, 2010 | 26 comments
26. Why Peak Oil Will Never Lead To $500/bbl Crude Oil (chrismartenson.com)
50 points by cwan on May 3, 2010 | 70 comments
27. Common Lisp: A Tutorial on Conditions and Restarts (chaitanyagupta.com)
49 points by mahmud on May 3, 2010 | 4 comments
28. Hearing prayer shuts off believers' brain activity (boingboing.net)
50 points by yanw on May 3, 2010 | 52 comments
29. Estimate for number of books sold per Kindle: 27 (spreadsheets.google.com)
49 points by vtail on May 3, 2010 | 43 comments
30. All-Nighters: Miles to Go (nytimes.com)
49 points by edw519 on May 3, 2010 | 14 comments

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