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1. Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. (redhat.com)
330 points by statictype on March 26, 2011 | 175 comments
2. Unladen Swallow Retrospective (qinsb.blogspot.com)
175 points by jnoller on March 26, 2011 | 30 comments
3. The Mirah Language: bringing modern features to the JVM without runtime overhead (drdobbs.com)
152 points by technomancy on March 26, 2011 | 49 comments
4. Friends don't let friends get into finance (techcrunch.com)
140 points by mayukh on March 26, 2011 | 139 comments
5. That’s it, we’re quitting (canonical.com)
138 points by marcog1 on March 26, 2011 | 134 comments
6. Cornell Will Reveal Secret Academic Journal Pricing (techdirt.com)
129 points by Jd on March 26, 2011 | 33 comments
7. GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go programming language support (gcc.gnu.org)
120 points by Tsiolkovsky on March 26, 2011 | 18 comments
8. Sudoku Solving (norvig.com)
111 points by nu2ycombinator on March 26, 2011 | 51 comments
9. I'm Regretting Going WP7 (theleagueofpaul.com)
109 points by johns on March 26, 2011 | 64 comments
10. Ios, Android, WP7 - who cares? (jacquesmattheij.com)
91 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 26, 2011 | 69 comments
11. MacRuby is moving to Github (macosforge.org)
89 points by tenderlove on March 26, 2011 | 17 comments
12. Pissed off about functional programming (perlmonks.org)
97 points by gnosis on March 26, 2011 | 37 comments
13. An Open Letter to Twitter: Let me pay for better service (vocamus.net)
76 points by siddhant on March 26, 2011 | 44 comments
14. 50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users (yahoo.com)
74 points by profitbaron on March 26, 2011 | 33 comments
15. Buffett Says Social-Networking Sites Overpriced Ahead of Public Offerings (bloomberg.com)
70 points by smallwords on March 26, 2011 | 54 comments
16. Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy (technologizer.com)
68 points by pathik on March 26, 2011 | 58 comments
17. Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot (nytimes.com)
68 points by gaurav_v on March 26, 2011 | 45 comments
18. Patio11 at Business of Software (kalzumeus.com)
68 points by zgr on March 26, 2011 | 14 comments
19. Napster boss set to buy Metallica’s record label (rocknewsdesk.com)
68 points by jgilliam on March 26, 2011 | 19 comments
20. I Told You RIM Was in Trouble (appleoutsider.com)
68 points by rkuester on March 26, 2011 | 41 comments
21. Most common one-line bugs in C? (stackoverflow.com)
64 points by solipsist on March 26, 2011 | 29 comments
22. C++ International Standard final draft is ready (herbsutter.com)
58 points by wyclif on March 26, 2011 | 18 comments
23. RPG for Pre-Schoolers (kidsdungeonadventure.com)
56 points by bengarvey on March 26, 2011 | 22 comments
24. Kids are making friends in the Arab world - via Call of Duty (scottbraddock.com)
54 points by benwerd on March 26, 2011 | 26 comments
25. Cellphones Track Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know (nytimes.com)
53 points by trotsky on March 26, 2011 | 17 comments
26. When ethics committees kill (badscience.net)
52 points by baha_man on March 26, 2011 | 13 comments
27. Show HN: LocalGo - bit.ly for addresses (localgo.com)
51 points by zach on March 26, 2011 | 31 comments
28. Best-ever quantum measurement breaks Heisenberg limit (newscientist.com)
51 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 26, 2011 | 8 comments
29. Google, Facebook and Zynga on a hiring binge in California (latimes.com)
48 points by pathik on March 26, 2011 | 37 comments
30. Bees Solve Complex Problems Faster Than Supercomputers (dailygalaxy.com)
46 points by emmanuelory on March 26, 2011 | 23 comments

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