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1. American Express fails miserably at basic security (timetobleed.com)
252 points by ice799 on May 25, 2010 | 69 comments
2. How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet (gmane.org)
182 points by coconutrandom on May 25, 2010 | 109 comments
3. Obviously, HP Thinks We Are Stupid (thesharklady.com)
169 points by revital9 on May 25, 2010 | 97 comments
4. Naïve Quitting (sivers.org)
157 points by niyazpk on May 25, 2010 | 65 comments
5. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking (hbr.org)
136 points by itsandrew on May 25, 2010 | 31 comments
6. Google Chrome for Linux goes stable (chromium.org)
130 points by igorgue on May 25, 2010 | 72 comments
7. Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script (smarterware.org)
122 points by cwan on May 25, 2010 | 28 comments
8. Facebook's Culture Problem May Be Fatal (hbr.org)
110 points by percept on May 25, 2010 | 73 comments
9. Announcing Clojure/core (clojure.blogspot.com)
107 points by alrex021 on May 25, 2010 | 31 comments
10. It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests (msdn.com)
105 points by raganwald on May 25, 2010 | 47 comments
11. To compete with Google, Apple has to make Mobile Me free (sachin.posterous.com)
99 points by a4agarwal on May 25, 2010 | 63 comments
12. Atlanta to San Francisco: What I Learned Moving Cross-Country (paulstamatiou.com)
96 points by PStamatiou on May 25, 2010 | 25 comments
13. Android Project Changeset 4f8b683: libc/memset.c (android.com)
87 points by jey on May 25, 2010 | 90 comments
14. Reasons to hate any programming language (stackoverflow.com)
83 points by AmberShah on May 25, 2010 | 40 comments
15. Oil reaches Louisiana shores (boston.com)
77 points by jacquesm on May 25, 2010 | 53 comments
16. Rethinking Cron (heroku.com)
77 points by jfi on May 25, 2010 | 27 comments
17. Drawing mathematical functions by hand (brown.edu)
73 points by abeppu on May 25, 2010 | 6 comments
18. A Twist To Y Combinator’s ‘Demo Day’: Pitching To Programmers (wsj.com)
73 points by huckle on May 25, 2010 | 22 comments
19. How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist (sivers.org)
73 points by acangiano on May 25, 2010 | 5 comments
20. Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours (in Haskell) (tang.name)
72 points by j_baker on May 25, 2010 | 8 comments
21. Not just oil: US hit peak water in 1970 and nobody noticed (arstechnica.com)
68 points by lukeqsee on May 25, 2010 | 45 comments
22. Who's hiring remotely?
68 points by remotestartup on May 25, 2010 | 39 comments
23. Responsive Web Design (alistapart.com)
62 points by vladocar on May 25, 2010 | 7 comments
24. Is java dead for startups?
59 points by lean_startup on May 25, 2010 | 98 comments
25. Tell HN: Senator Dodd Has Mostly Listened Concerning Regulation D
57 points by grellas on May 25, 2010 | 20 comments
26. Google Pacman Code (macek.github.com)
56 points by Chirag on May 25, 2010 | 28 comments
27. Damian Conway on Perl and its future (oreillygmt.co.uk)
57 points by draegtun on May 25, 2010 | 53 comments
28. PyPy: the other new compiler project (lwn.net)
52 points by corbet on May 25, 2010 | 11 comments
29. Building a Better Submission Form (nytimes.com)
53 points by meghan on May 25, 2010 | 18 comments
30. Google acquires Ruba.com (ruba.com)
48 points by ilike on May 25, 2010 | 15 comments

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