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1. Kind of Screwed (waxy.org)
611 points by joshuacc on June 23, 2011 | 237 comments
2. The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid (instapaper.com)
581 points by garethr on June 23, 2011 | 250 comments
3. Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room... (stackoverflow.com)
418 points by sutro on June 23, 2011 | 98 comments
4. Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars (blogs.forbes.com)
400 points by iqster on June 23, 2011 | 202 comments
5. LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents (lulzsecurity.com)
211 points by kwantam on June 23, 2011 | 198 comments
6. Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting (echoprint.me)
201 points by chl on June 23, 2011 | 53 comments
7. Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft’s Help (nodejs.org)
193 points by icey on June 23, 2011 | 77 comments
8. Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users (optimizely.com)
192 points by dsiroker on June 23, 2011 | 26 comments
9. Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business (mongolab.com)
169 points by william-shulman on June 23, 2011 | 132 comments
10. Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle (xmpp.org)
169 points by sciurus on June 23, 2011 | 47 comments
11. Why is there only one human species? (bbc.co.uk)
163 points by ColinWright on June 23, 2011 | 114 comments
12. Card.io - fast and easy mobile credit card scanning (card.io)
166 points by davidedicillo on June 23, 2011 | 55 comments
13. Should I Change My Password? (shouldichangemypassword.com)
155 points by jamesjyu on June 23, 2011 | 100 comments
14. Tech journalists who make no sense (37signals.com)
152 points by wlll on June 23, 2011 | 41 comments
15. How to program independent games (the-witness.net)
139 points by teamonkey on June 23, 2011 | 14 comments
16. SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js (github.com/socketstream)
128 points by philipDS on June 23, 2011 | 37 comments
17. VisualSearch.js: A Rich Search Box for Real Data (documentcloud.org)
126 points by jashkenas on June 23, 2011 | 12 comments
18. We Spent $1,138 on Facebook in 6 Days: Numbers and Lessons Learned (signnow.com)
125 points by shanecox1 on June 23, 2011 | 67 comments
19. Computer vision (online book) (computervisionmodels.blogspot.com)
116 points by helwr on June 23, 2011 | 24 comments
20. Reddit's possible solution to famous Zodiac cipher (reddit.com)
113 points by jmtame on June 23, 2011 | 18 comments
21. Top 20 Motivation Hacks (zenhabits.net)
93 points by djshah on June 23, 2011 | 32 comments
22. 53 VCs from 40 firms send letter opposing PROTECT IP (usv.com)
93 points by akozak on June 23, 2011 | 22 comments
23. New multiferroic alloy turns waste heat into green electricity for free (extremetech.com)
92 points by mrseb on June 23, 2011 | 48 comments
24. Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month (betabeat.com)
90 points by sahillavingia on June 23, 2011 | 62 comments
25. Google: 'At scale, everything breaks' (zdnet.co.uk)
84 points by ca98am79 on June 23, 2011 | 24 comments
26. Lawmaker wants 4G carriers to disclose throttling and speed (arstechnica.com)
82 points by shawndumas on June 23, 2011 | 19 comments
27. How do JavaScript closures work? (stackoverflow.com)
81 points by abraham on June 23, 2011 | 20 comments
28. Happy Birthday, Alan Turing (wikipedia.org)
78 points by raganwald on June 23, 2011 | 6 comments
29. Clojure/core Reading List: Rationale, tutorials, resources (clojure.com)
71 points by gtani on June 23, 2011 | 8 comments
30. Counterpoint: 200,000 apps is what they want (37signals.com)
70 points by joshuacc on June 23, 2011 | 16 comments

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