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1.A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
273 points by KennethMyers on April 30, 2011 | 126 comments
2.Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official (torrentfreak.com)
197 points by there on April 30, 2011 | 41 comments
3.Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop (jitbit.com)
188 points by jitbit on April 30, 2011 | 52 comments
4.Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae (paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
177 points by dchest on April 30, 2011 | 39 comments
5.PyPy 1.5 Released: Catching Up (morepypy.blogspot.com)
147 points by jnoller on April 30, 2011 | 70 comments
6.The investment that didn't happen (k9.vc)
144 points by sneakersneaker on April 30, 2011 | 38 comments
7.Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday (mtgox.com)
144 points by TheCoreh on April 30, 2011 | 92 comments
8.New order of animals discovered? (scientificamerican.com)
142 points by MaysonL on April 30, 2011 | 28 comments
9.Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by Paypal (bitcoin.org)
142 points by tshtf on April 30, 2011 | 74 comments
10.Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (support.microsoft.com)
141 points by urbannomad on April 30, 2011 | 34 comments
11.Simple description of popular open source licenses (pbagwl.com)
112 points by pbagwl on April 30, 2011 | 13 comments
12.Building a Thinking Room (wsj.com)
108 points by fun2have on April 30, 2011 | 18 comments
13.Ask HN: Can you recommend some directories to list your app?
97 points by auston on April 30, 2011 | 23 comments
14.Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads (martinfjordvald.com)
95 points by ichilton on April 30, 2011 | 22 comments
15.Introducing Druid: Real-Time Analytics at a Billion Rows Per Second (metamarketsgroup.com)
95 points by Anon84 on April 30, 2011 | 44 comments
16.Unity Asset Store: $3000 revenue in 5 days from a spline drawing tool (juhakiili.com)
94 points by dirtyaura on April 30, 2011 | 7 comments
17.Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years (zenhabits.net)
93 points by willyg on April 30, 2011 | 26 comments
18.The "book" is dead (diveintomark.org)
91 points by brianwillis on April 30, 2011 | 28 comments
19.Have you read your Python Docs Lately? (jessenoller.com)
87 points by jnoller on April 30, 2011 | 12 comments
20.Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer (zdnet.com)
78 points by samoa on April 30, 2011 | 24 comments
21.Great Data Structure & Algorithm Visualization Tool (5mins.wordpress.com)
59 points by Goodstuff on April 30, 2011 | 6 comments
22.List of current and upcoming cloud platforms (huchunhao.com)
59 points by andypants on April 30, 2011 | 13 comments
23.Software Patents as Innovation Tax, Rather Than Catalyst for Innovation (thenoisychannel.com)
56 points by powertower on April 30, 2011 | 12 comments
24.The road ahead for Rust (pcwalton.blogspot.com)
54 points by icey on April 30, 2011 | 6 comments
25.All-time greatest failed Internet startup (quora.com)
51 points by mg1313 on April 30, 2011 | 32 comments
26.Did the Sale of Pyrex Hurt the Crack-Cocaine Industry? (freakonomics.com)
48 points by bjonathan on April 30, 2011 | 28 comments
27.Ask PG: Disconnecting Distraction progress?
45 points by hella on April 30, 2011 | 12 comments
28.Ask HN: Have you written a book?
44 points by nbashaw on April 30, 2011 | 54 comments
29.Show HN: crawl a website and store it in S3 from your browser (github.com/spullara)
43 points by spullara on April 30, 2011 | 12 comments
30.Ask HN: ______ is to Python as K&R is to C?
42 points by HedgeMage on April 30, 2011 | 50 comments

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