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1. The senators who say linking to certain sites should be a felony (techdirt.com)
184 points by d0ne on May 15, 2011 | 90 comments
2. How to make wifi work at tech conferences (nonblocking.io)
166 points by cramforce on May 15, 2011 | 37 comments
3. JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't (timelessrepo.com)
157 points by judofyr on May 15, 2011 | 35 comments
4. Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough (tstmedia.com)
144 points by LargeWu on May 15, 2011 | 137 comments
5. Carnegie Mellon creates fund to invest in its recent graduates (cmu.edu)
133 points by dpieri on May 15, 2011 | 42 comments
6. What’s up with ARM (linuxfoundation.org)
124 points by pmjordan on May 15, 2011 | 6 comments
7. President Obama Wants You--In Jail (quora.com)
116 points by thinkcomp on May 15, 2011 | 28 comments
8. The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment (techcrunch.com)
117 points by playhard on May 15, 2011 | 23 comments
9. Perl 5.14 released (perlfoundation.org)
105 points by Jak3t on May 15, 2011 | 26 comments
10. Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform (zuupy.com)
105 points by fezzl on May 15, 2011 | 45 comments
11. Hire based on interest, not credentials (regardingwork.com)
92 points by fontana on May 15, 2011 | 19 comments
12. Bill Gates: Why MIT matters (boston.com)
87 points by robg on May 15, 2011 | 34 comments
13. DCA: A simple, unpatentable cancer treatment? (ualberta.ca)
82 points by anxiousape on May 15, 2011 | 27 comments
14. Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94) (parc.com)
82 points by swah on May 15, 2011 | 35 comments
15. UC Berkeley Engineers help paraplegic student walk at graduation (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
73 points by teej on May 15, 2011 | 8 comments
16. The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later (thenextweb.com)
72 points by cdp on May 15, 2011 | 48 comments
17. A conversation about open source licenses (gist.github.com)
73 points by ashchristopher on May 15, 2011 | 33 comments
18. Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition - Preview (portswigger.net)
70 points by wglb on May 15, 2011 | 14 comments
19. Is Bitcoin the most dangerous open source project ever? (launch.is)
66 points by jasonmcalacanis on May 15, 2011 | 31 comments
20. An Open Letter to Matt Cutts & the Google Web Spam Team (loveclients.com)
62 points by fodunkin on May 15, 2011 | 27 comments
21. Betting on Bitcoin: Fundamentals vs Technical Analysis (gd0t.com)
58 points by eof on May 15, 2011 | 57 comments
22. How good is Google’s Instant Mix? (musicmachinery.com)
57 points by hillad on May 15, 2011 | 29 comments
23. Deploying Python WSGI applications with Puppet (uggedal.com)
54 points by uggedal on May 15, 2011 | 14 comments
24. How to start your startup in 4 steps (joel.is)
50 points by joelg87 on May 15, 2011 | 5 comments
25. Glitch In iTunes Activation Servers (shoutpedia.com)
46 points by bigiain on May 15, 2011 | 28 comments
26. VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS (gigaom.com)
42 points by jnoller on May 15, 2011 | 28 comments
27. The Art Gallery Problem (wikipedia.org)
40 points by ccarpenterg on May 15, 2011 | 1 comment
28. Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance (makeuseof.com)
41 points by surfingdino on May 15, 2011 | 67 comments
29. We have seen this movie before (chestergrant.posterous.com)
39 points by chegra84 on May 15, 2011 | 6 comments
30. Psychometric Thresholds for Physics and Mathematics (infoproc.blogspot.com)
38 points by barry-cotter on May 15, 2011 | 18 comments

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