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1. 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists (bbc.co.uk)
280 points by blogimus on May 20, 2010 | 92 comments
2. Ask HN: HN Alternatives?
210 points by jaytee_clone on May 20, 2010 | 88 comments
3. You’re Just the Founder (steveblank.com)
208 points by icey on May 20, 2010 | 61 comments
4. Google launches Google TV (google.com)
188 points by kacy on May 20, 2010 | 114 comments
5. Clang++ Builds Boost (llvm.org)
165 points by earcar on May 20, 2010 | 5 comments
6. Lightspark: LLVM-based Flash Player for Linux (sourceforge.net)
158 points by mmc on May 20, 2010 | 13 comments
7. Sorry. We Messed Up. (Zendesk responds to pricing criticism) (zendesk.com)
104 points by mattmaroon on May 20, 2010 | 54 comments
8. 17 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (1965) (youtube.com)
98 points by tfh on May 20, 2010 | 11 comments
9. The Prolog Story (kylecordes.com)
96 points by zephyrfalcon on May 20, 2010 | 60 comments
10. Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (wikipedia.org)
93 points by mapleoin on May 20, 2010 | 196 comments
11. Burn-out visible in the brains of patients (jacquesmattheij.com)
92 points by jacquesm on May 20, 2010 | 31 comments
12. The GitHub Stoplight (urbanhonking.com)
85 points by nreece on May 20, 2010 | 4 comments
13. The Gloves Are Officially Off: Google Vs. Apple (techcrunch.com)
83 points by edw519 on May 20, 2010 | 70 comments
14. Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep. (techcrunch.com)
79 points by derekc on May 20, 2010 | 29 comments
15. A look at the wireless traffic of MIT students (ksplice.com)
72 points by jesstess on May 20, 2010 | 32 comments
16. Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance in Adolescents (ngu.edu)
70 points by chegra on May 20, 2010 | 44 comments
17. Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger's (wired.com)
68 points by edw519 on May 20, 2010 | 42 comments
18. Rapid wireframe sketching in Google Docs (googledocs.blogspot.com)
63 points by duck on May 20, 2010 | 7 comments
19. How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the App Store (iteleportmobile.com)
63 points by jsherwani on May 20, 2010 | 22 comments
20. VoltDB - in memory, ACID compliant, partitioned, SQL database (voltdb.com)
60 points by bensummers on May 20, 2010 | 41 comments
21. Upgrading a Rails 2 App to Rails 3 (railsdispatch.com)
62 points by wifelette on May 20, 2010 | 12 comments
22. Android 2.2 and developers goodies (android-developers.blogspot.com)
58 points by mcantelon on May 20, 2010 | 22 comments
23. TeleHash: Distributed JSON Peering Protocol (telehash.org)
54 points by bootload on May 20, 2010 | 22 comments
24. We are not consumers (mnmlist.com)
51 points by v4us on May 20, 2010 | 34 comments
25. Ask HN: Lets talk about Etsy
51 points by parkern on May 20, 2010 | 46 comments
26. CSS Mini Reset (vcarrer.com)
51 points by vladocar on May 20, 2010 | 21 comments
27. OpenID Connect (openidconnect.com)
47 points by apgwoz on May 20, 2010 | 8 comments
28. Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon (techcrunch.com)
46 points by stanleydrew on May 20, 2010 | 32 comments
29. Perl programming survey (2010) (perlfoundation.org)
44 points by draegtun on May 20, 2010 | 18 comments
30. Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8 (fsf.org)
42 points by tjr on May 20, 2010 | 13 comments

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