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1. Google ditches Windows on security concerns (ft.com)
260 points by martian on May 31, 2010 | 152 comments
2. Why are the east of cities usually poorer? (thejanuarist.com)
260 points by spxdcz on May 31, 2010 | 99 comments
3. Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope (mondaynote.com)
139 points by jlhamilton on May 31, 2010 | 65 comments
4. Open source Rails apps to study and learn from (chrislowis.co.uk)
127 points by chrislo on May 31, 2010 | 13 comments
5. Got a startup idea? Validate it with the Startup Toolkit (thestartuptoolkit.com)
112 points by JarekS on May 31, 2010 | 34 comments
6. The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using (lifehacker.com)
109 points by thekguy on May 31, 2010 | 46 comments
7. Engineer #2 at Mint.com on when to join a startup (femgineer.com)
94 points by aditya on May 31, 2010 | 19 comments
8. What's a disease? Or: shoud fat/shy/alcoholic people be blamed or treated? (lesswrong.com)
91 points by brazzy on May 31, 2010 | 95 comments
9. Java 7: Oracle pushes a first version of closures (baptiste-wicht.com)
85 points by budu on May 31, 2010 | 57 comments
10. Marc Andreessen - Three Necessities for Start-up Success [video] (stanford.edu)
79 points by aditya on May 31, 2010 | 9 comments
11. List of Hacker Spaces Around the World (hackerspaces.org)
78 points by mahipal on May 31, 2010 | 25 comments
12. The Coming War: ARM versus x86 (brightsideofnews.com)
75 points by signa11 on May 31, 2010 | 37 comments
13. Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js (debuggable.com)
74 points by felixge on May 31, 2010 | 28 comments
14. App Engine JavaScript SDK (appenginejs.org)
74 points by danh on May 31, 2010 | 42 comments
15. How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs (bhorowitz.com)
73 points by dwynings on May 31, 2010 | 4 comments
16. Triple Your Google AdWords CTR Overnight by Doing Nothing (seobook.com)
68 points by danielhodgins on May 31, 2010 | 9 comments
17. Clojure Protocols & Datatypes — A sneak peek (freegeek.in)
67 points by budu on May 31, 2010 | 9 comments
18. What Is Intelligence, Anyway? (talentdevelop.com)
64 points by rick_2047 on May 31, 2010 | 61 comments
19. Is Twitter censoring #flotilla? (twitter.com/search)
58 points by _zzlv on May 31, 2010 | 48 comments
20. Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) (adventnet.com)
57 points by ananthrk on May 31, 2010 | 28 comments
21. Lasersaur: The Open Source Laser Cutter (kickstarter.com)
53 points by sown on May 31, 2010 | 8 comments
22. A Tale of Two Students (wsj.com)
53 points by robg on May 31, 2010 | 15 comments
23. Apple Sold 2 Million iPads In 59 Days (techcrunch.com)
51 points by acangiano on May 31, 2010 | 43 comments
24. Canon Hack Development Kit (wikia.com)
49 points by J3L2404 on May 31, 2010 | 7 comments
25. IPad: $1 Billion Later, What Do You Think of It Now? (readwriteweb.com)
48 points by Anon84 on May 31, 2010 | 93 comments
26. Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth (newscientist.com)
46 points by rubinelli on May 31, 2010 | 68 comments
27. Google I/O 2010 session videos will be released tomorrow (googlecode.blogspot.com)
46 points by mcantelon on May 31, 2010
28. Diaspora website redesign, now with more info about the project (joindiaspora.com)
45 points by ique on May 31, 2010 | 57 comments
29. GCC starts move towards implementation in C++ (gmane.org)
42 points by Anon84 on May 31, 2010 | 35 comments
30. BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago (nytimes.com)
41 points by prosa on May 31, 2010 | 40 comments

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