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1.		Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure (intel.com)
		470 points by brewski on May 4, 2011 \| 101 comments
2.		Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass (wisc.edu)
		316 points by bootload on May 4, 2011 \| 97 comments
3.		Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore (igvita.com)
		214 points by tsycho on May 4, 2011 \| 51 comments
4.		Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions (github.com/leftnode)
		190 points by leftnode on May 4, 2011 \| 76 comments
5.		Show HN: Machine learning cheat sheet (eferm.com)
		166 points by Emore on May 4, 2011 \| 13 comments
6.		LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House (techcrunch.com)
		160 points by thankuz on May 4, 2011 \| 68 comments
7.		John Resig, creator of jQuery, AMA. (reddit.com)
		157 points by timf on May 4, 2011 \| 27 comments
8.		Be a quiet professional (kyletress.com)
		155 points by jktress on May 4, 2011 \| 71 comments
9.		The Unwritten Laws of Engineering: What the Beginner Needs to Learn at Once (asme.org)
		149 points by wallflower on May 4, 2011 \| 14 comments
10.		Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves (earbits.com)
		144 points by earbitscom on May 4, 2011 \| 50 comments
11.		Google Releases JavaScript.next to JavaScript Compiler Traceur (code.google.com)
		139 points by ssclafani on May 4, 2011 \| 34 comments
12.		Linus Torvalds Interview for LinuxFR (linuxfr.org)
		130 points by linuxnow on May 4, 2011 \| 51 comments
13.		Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested? (leanpub.com)
		126 points by yrashk on May 4, 2011 \| 40 comments
14.		Sortfolio for sale (37signals.com)
		119 points by wlll on May 4, 2011 \| 36 comments
		pilom on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structur... Again one of those "I bet AnandTech has the best description out there" and I go check and am pleasantly surprised. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4313/intel-announces-first-22n...
16.		A CoffeeScript Intervention (pragprog.com)
		107 points by telemachos on May 4, 2011 \| 36 comments
		Cherian_Abraham on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: The Last Post I take my life for granted. I take the adoration my two year old son has of me, for granted. I take my wife's love and caring for granted. I do all this, thinking that what I build today will provide a better future for all of us. And I could be wrong. I could shut my laptop when he squirms his way between me and the desk and wiggles his way on to my lap. I could switch my context when my wife sits down next to me aching for a conversation. I could spend more time with both of them. I can pretty much be sure when I say I will not be the next Zuckerberg. There are many things that vy for my attention throughout the day and night. But there is only one thing both of them needs and which I squander. I do not want to look back and regret. I am going home right now and I am going to kiss my wife and hug my kid. Ciao.
18.		Amazing way Chinese recycle millions of cellphones every year (nokia.com)
		100 points by pitdesi on May 4, 2011 \| 28 comments
19.		De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint (corte.si)
		100 points by morganpyne on May 4, 2011 \| 14 comments
20.		Deliberate Practice: How Education Fails to Produce Expertise (freakonomics.com)
		99 points by cwan on May 4, 2011 \| 36 comments
21.		"The 411 Parable": Goog411 vs Bing411 - Make sure you are playing the same game. (buildcontext.com)
		88 points by benhedrington on May 4, 2011 \| 26 comments
22.		How Fog Creek learned to do sales part 2 (fogcreek.com)
		88 points by buzzcut on May 4, 2011 \| 14 comments
		sjtgraham on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structur... This is the sort of thing I read and think to myself "go check HN comments where someone smart will explain this in layman's terms"
24.		GNUnet (wikimedia.org)
		83 points by gnosis on May 4, 2011 \| 24 comments
		yummyfajitas on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass Failing to reproduce experimental results with broken equipment then faking the data with an excel function to get the teachers off my back... I had the exact opposite experience. I once failed to get an experiment working, but kept trying until I was the last person in the lab. Eventually the professor asked why I hadn't finished, and together we discovered the spectrometer was utterly broken. He gave a a grade of 0-25% to everyone who got the "right" answer, depending on how realistically they faked it (some people didn't bother to add noise or quantize their answers).
26.		Doctors use copyright assignment in patient contract to stifle bad reviews (eff.org)
		82 points by grellas on May 4, 2011 \| 25 comments
27.		Facebook Ads: How to Get 1 Cent CPC (and why you might not want to) (momentgarden.com)
		82 points by garbowza on May 4, 2011 \| 25 comments
		tzs on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass If anyone needs a refresher in semiconductor physics, there's a good one at this Britney Spears site: http://britneyspears.ac/ edit: how the heck does a link to an excellent introduction to semiconductor physics get voted down in a thread about an article relating to semiconductor physics?
29.		Ask HN: What are your productivity hacks?
		72 points by zachthewf on May 4, 2011 \| 60 comments
30.		Best practices for raising a VC round (cdixon.org)
		73 points by yan on May 4, 2011 \| 2 comments
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