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1. In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley (quora.com)
406 points by thinkcomp on May 11, 2011 | 208 comments
2. FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue (aclu.org)
395 points by trotsky on May 11, 2011 | 72 comments
3. Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS (palm.com)
294 points by unwiredben on May 11, 2011 | 166 comments
4. Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app (iflowreader.com)
281 points by mikecane on May 11, 2011 | 160 comments
5. Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL (chrome.google.com)
234 points by patrickaljord on May 11, 2011 | 83 comments
6. Google Storage Now Available To Developers (code.google.com)
221 points by ASUmusicMAN on May 11, 2011 | 60 comments
7. CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders (layerstyles.org)
180 points by daleharvey on May 11, 2011 | 35 comments
8. Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN (pintpay.com)
180 points by gpl1 on May 11, 2011 | 87 comments
9. "The worst algorithm in the world?" (bosker.wordpress.com)
161 points by mccutchen on May 11, 2011 | 69 comments
10. Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts (stackoverflow.com)
155 points by fogus on May 11, 2011 | 67 comments
11. After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commissioner becomes Comcast lobbyist (arstechnica.com)
155 points by kmfrk on May 11, 2011 | 69 comments
12. The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see (biketek.com)
154 points by eykanal on May 11, 2011 | 95 comments
13. Why Google Does Not Own Skype (cnn.com)
151 points by vladd on May 11, 2011 | 91 comments
14. C to Go: Could Go replace C? (stanford.edu)
144 points by hanszeir on May 11, 2011 | 154 comments
15. How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated (acumenholdings.com)
145 points by joshclemence on May 11, 2011 | 25 comments
16. Google lobbies Nevada to allow driverless cars (nytimes.com)
133 points by nkassis on May 11, 2011 | 101 comments
17. Bootstrap Marketing: Ideas that don't suck (spencerfry.com)
122 points by bry on May 11, 2011 | 19 comments
18. Google Tasks API Released (code.google.com)
121 points by nikosdimopoulos on May 11, 2011 | 39 comments
19. Programming is… (mrclay.org)
116 points by Concours on May 11, 2011 | 23 comments
20. Bret Victor on working at Apple. (worrydream.com)
116 points by endergen on May 11, 2011 | 68 comments
21. Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months (calnewport.com)
114 points by da5e on May 11, 2011 | 49 comments
22. Ask HN: any of the HNers have kids & work from home?
112 points by Jem on May 11, 2011 | 97 comments
23. It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL." (basho.com)
115 points by pharkmillups on May 11, 2011 | 64 comments
24. Google to Announce Chrome Laptops for Students - $20/Month (blogs.forbes.com)
99 points by Kylekramer on May 11, 2011 | 41 comments
25. BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance (techdirt.com)
97 points by grellas on May 11, 2011 | 43 comments
26. Angry Birds on Chrome (angrybirds.com)
96 points by gabaix on May 11, 2011 | 30 comments
27. Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk (alpha.gov.uk)
90 points by gorm on May 11, 2011 | 41 comments
28. How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly? (english.stackexchange.com)
86 points by m_myers on May 11, 2011 | 19 comments
29. How TheLadders.com scam works (corcodilos.com)
86 points by ecaron on May 11, 2011 | 31 comments
30. How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs (dynatrace.com)
82 points by kumarshantanu on May 11, 2011 | 7 comments

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