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1. “Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It (fogcreek.com)
393 points by patio11 on May 26, 2011 | 88 comments
2. Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly (gmane.org)
323 points by BrandonM on May 26, 2011 | 55 comments
3. Going Paper-Free for $220 (stevelosh.com)
302 points by stevelosh on May 26, 2011 | 125 comments
4. Roger Ebert: The dying of the light (suntimes.com)
297 points by kyleslattery on May 26, 2011 | 75 comments
5. 1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen (bbc.co.uk)
268 points by srgseg on May 26, 2011 | 230 comments
6. Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy (ryanelmquist.com)
237 points by HistoryInAction on May 26, 2011 | 131 comments
7. Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act (arstechnica.com)
197 points by chanks on May 26, 2011 | 29 comments
8. Coming soon: make your phone your wallet (googleblog.blogspot.com)
178 points by Uncle_Sam on May 26, 2011 | 97 comments
9. BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers (returninfinity.com)
171 points by fogus on May 26, 2011 | 79 comments
10. Advanced Google Analytics for Startups (thinkvitamin.com)
155 points by commondream on May 26, 2011 | 19 comments
11. Wield Python's super() like a Jedi (rhettinger.wordpress.com)
141 points by raymondh on May 26, 2011 | 63 comments
12. Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team (airbnb.com)
141 points by sinzone on May 26, 2011 | 90 comments
13. 1 in 5 APIs Say “Bye XML” - JSON gaining ground (programmableweb.com)
138 points by ChrisArchitect on May 26, 2011 | 63 comments
14. Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing (backtype.com)
119 points by lzimm on May 26, 2011 | 46 comments
15. Inmates forced to farm gold online in Chinese prisons (thenextweb.com)
118 points by arb99 on May 26, 2011 | 73 comments
16. About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011 (blog.pinboard.in)
118 points by chl on May 26, 2011 | 34 comments
17. IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student (blogs.forbes.com)
117 points by jmjerlecki on May 26, 2011 | 74 comments
18. "Ballmer must go", lead investor tells conference (nytimes.com)
117 points by nikcub on May 26, 2011 | 51 comments
19. It's Time for Bill Gates to Come Back to Microsoft (gdgt.com)
115 points by hornokplease on May 26, 2011 | 49 comments
20. Work is Fascinating: The Metagame (yieldthought.com)
114 points by moconnor on May 26, 2011 | 21 comments
21. ActiveMQ: Not ready for prime time (goodstuff.im)
96 points by sorenbs on May 26, 2011 | 91 comments
22. Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation (lunduke.com)
94 points by planb on May 26, 2011 | 90 comments
23. Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin (bitcoin-contact.org)
81 points by llambda on May 26, 2011 | 18 comments
24. Rosetta Code: solutions to the same task in many languages (rosettacode.org)
80 points by derwiki on May 26, 2011 | 16 comments
25. Cookie law makes most UK websites illegal: what you need to know (silktide.com)
75 points by Garbage on May 26, 2011 | 74 comments
26. Skills a Designer Must Have when Working for a Startup (stylej.am)
64 points by stylejam on May 26, 2011 | 33 comments
27. Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV (MIT OpenCourseWare) (ocw.mit.edu)
64 points by olalonde on May 26, 2011 | 13 comments
28. The problem with blogging (swombat.com)
61 points by wheels on May 26, 2011 | 42 comments
29. Google Wallet (google.com)
60 points by ssn on May 26, 2011 | 14 comments
30. Compilers and Compiler Generators (ru.ac.za)
58 points by fogus on May 26, 2011 | 10 comments

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