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1. Why Google's hiring process is broken (teambox.com)
293 points by michokest on May 17, 2011 | 168 comments
2. Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation (altdevblogaday.org)
280 points by ecaradec on May 17, 2011 | 33 comments
3. Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America (techcrunch.com)
201 points by ssclafani on May 17, 2011 | 81 comments
4. Fabrice Bellard [pdf] (freearchive.org)
186 points by nkurz on May 17, 2011 | 29 comments
5. Fly Like You're Rich With Social Flights (And Private Planes) (fastcompany.com)
181 points by valish on May 17, 2011 | 57 comments
6. Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists (singularityhub.com)
166 points by kkleiner on May 17, 2011 | 129 comments
7. Google Docs adds Pivot Table support (googledocs.blogspot.com)
141 points by vmind on May 17, 2011 | 49 comments
8. BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011 (businessweek.com)
137 points by pg on May 17, 2011 | 66 comments
9. Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language (ieee.org)
127 points by eguizzo on May 17, 2011 | 35 comments
10. Responding to Criticism (rob.by)
116 points by freerobby on May 17, 2011 | 26 comments
11. Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t (piehead.com)
107 points by trooon on May 17, 2011 | 184 comments
12. The art of endless upgrading (kk.org)
95 points by AndrewDucker on May 17, 2011 | 19 comments
13. Is Microsoft trying to end the reign of mobile carriers? (fury.com)
91 points by atularora on May 17, 2011 | 46 comments
14. Research Directions for Machine Learning and Algorithms (acm.org)
87 points by yarapavan on May 17, 2011 | 7 comments
15. Writes large correct programs (johndcook.com)
82 points by ColinWright on May 17, 2011 | 32 comments
16. PHP "require" Performance (gazehawk.com)
81 points by bkrausz on May 17, 2011 | 37 comments
17. 99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials (theregister.co.uk)
81 points by joeshaw on May 17, 2011 | 11 comments
18. Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a superproductive programmer (softwarequalityconnection.com)
80 points by d_r on May 17, 2011 | 8 comments
19. The Cult of Done -- are you in it? (brepettis.com)
75 points by feross on May 17, 2011 | 28 comments
20. Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover (bbc.co.uk)
75 points by ssclafani on May 17, 2011 | 48 comments
21. Site replicates effects of psychedelic drugs (squareeater.com)
74 points by SquareOne on May 17, 2011 | 29 comments
22. DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2 (cuppster.com)
71 points by cuppster on May 17, 2011 | 12 comments
23. WhereBerry (YC W11): A Social Network for Making Future Plans (nytimes.com)
70 points by turoczy on May 17, 2011 | 50 comments
24. Why did Google take a $3B loan with $37B already in the bank? (wsj.com)
70 points by asmithmd1 on May 17, 2011 | 52 comments
25. Hack us, and we'll bomb you (arstechnica.com)
71 points by stcredzero on May 17, 2011 | 32 comments
26. Show HN: JavaScript implementation of Spotify client (Chrome only) (spotifyontheweb.com)
68 points by EmielMols on May 17, 2011 | 37 comments
27. Why you can't really anonymize your data (oreilly.com)
63 points by Garbage on May 17, 2011 | 9 comments
28. First habitable exoplanet discovered? (sciencedaily.com)
60 points by ssclafani on May 17, 2011 | 43 comments
29. The False Choice Between Babies And Startups (blogs.forbes.com)
58 points by jemeshsu on May 17, 2011 | 38 comments
30. Conway's Game of Life in CoffeeScript (willbailey.name)
54 points by wsbail29 on May 17, 2011 | 22 comments

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