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1. Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks (time.com)
279 points by kiba on April 16, 2011 | 214 comments
2. Show HN: made a html5 game, polished it many many times (hotbazooka.com)
211 points by bazookaBen on April 16, 2011 | 114 comments
3. Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter (scobleizer.com)
208 points by creativityhurts on April 16, 2011 | 49 comments
4. Square's Disruptive Payment Service About to Get A Huge Retail Boost from Apple (techcrunch.com)
162 points by Jsarokin on April 16, 2011 | 70 comments
5. How Bitcoin Works (bitcoin.it)
156 points by kam on April 16, 2011 | 50 comments
6. Ask HN: how to become a morning person?
153 points by zxcvvcxz on April 16, 2011 | 101 comments
7. If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?
127 points by solarmist on April 16, 2011 | 136 comments
8. A Patently Obvious Problem (nytimes.com)
107 points by petethomas on April 16, 2011 | 33 comments
9. RFC 2468 - I remember IANA (jacquesmattheij.com)
100 points by ColinWright on April 16, 2011 | 3 comments
10. Conway's Game of Life Extrusion (qotile.net)
94 points by brunoc on April 16, 2011 | 29 comments
11. You Don't Know JavaScript (w2lessons.com)
94 points by mwbiz on April 16, 2011 | 38 comments
12. Khan Academy Redesign (shipordie.com)
90 points by woan on April 16, 2011 | 20 comments
13. Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
78 points by gammarator on April 16, 2011 | 42 comments
14. Google Video shutting down, disabling public downloads on April 29 (techcrunch.com)
77 points by ivank on April 16, 2011 | 37 comments
15. 1st draft of R7RS small language available (all changes listed on linked page) (groups.google.com)
71 points by tizoc on April 16, 2011 | 12 comments
16. What math (and programming) teachers should know about memory (republicofmath.com)
69 points by ColinWright on April 16, 2011 | 13 comments
17. Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS (arstechnica.com)
64 points by evo_9 on April 16, 2011 | 23 comments
18. My experience outsourcing manufacturing to China (trekdek.wordpress.com)
61 points by dmd149 on April 16, 2011 | 27 comments
19. Hating on Candyland: Why most games for kids are awful (kidsdungeonadventure.com)
54 points by bengarvey on April 16, 2011 | 61 comments
20. JQuery: Official Plugins - A Change in the Roadmap (jquery.com)
53 points by flardinois on April 16, 2011 | 1 comment
21. Ask PG: Can we see karma on Ask HN comments?
49 points by ibejoeb on April 16, 2011 | 1 comment
22. Modules Matter Most (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
47 points by ottbot on April 16, 2011 | 26 comments
23. Jeff Bezos's 1997 Letter to Amazon.com Shareholders (files.wordpress.com)
45 points by collistaeed on April 16, 2011 | 7 comments
24. List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup (kevinohashi.com)
43 points by ohashi on April 16, 2011 | 32 comments
25. Ask HN: Does anyone else misread the 'time since comment' as karma now?
43 points by kaisdavis on April 16, 2011 | 11 comments
26. What is the truth behind "9 out of 10 startups fail"? (quora.com)
44 points by wh-uws on April 16, 2011 | 17 comments
27. What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry Page (techcrunch.com)
42 points by solipsist on April 16, 2011 | 30 comments
28. The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom) (raikoth.net)
41 points by vegai on April 16, 2011 | 18 comments
29. Exploring Rails 3.1 - ActiveModel::SecurePassword (bcardarella.com)
39 points by there on April 16, 2011 | 15 comments
30. Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5″ announcement (diveintomark.org)
40 points by st3fan on April 16, 2011 | 25 comments

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