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1. The Only Way to Get Important Things Done (hbr.org)
346 points by yarapavan on May 25, 2011 | 110 comments
2. Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)
278 points by ssclafani on May 25, 2011 | 109 comments
3. Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images (bbc.co.uk)
249 points by larryfreeman on May 25, 2011 | 48 comments
4. Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
235 points by helwr on May 25, 2011 | 100 comments
5. Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's den," rips into lions (arstechnica.com)
192 points by grellas on May 25, 2011 | 73 comments
6. Google Correlate (googlelabs.com)
161 points by ssn on May 25, 2011 | 52 comments
7. Don't give bullshit advice (humbledmba.com)
158 points by jaf12duke on May 25, 2011 | 39 comments
8. Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game (amazon.com)
141 points by thinker on May 25, 2011 | 118 comments
9. Italian seismologists to be tried for manslaughter (nature.com)
140 points by andrewcooke on May 25, 2011 | 71 comments
10. C'mon, stop writing Java for Android (thoughtbot.com)
133 points by ubuwaits on May 25, 2011 | 64 comments
11. Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify (blogs.forbes.com)
131 points by inmygarage on May 25, 2011 | 51 comments
12. Announcing SproutCore 2.0 Developer Preview (sproutcore.com)
130 points by jtaby on May 25, 2011 | 27 comments
13. CyanogenMod Adds Support For Revoking And Faking App Permissions on Android (androidpolice.com)
124 points by DanielRibeiro on May 25, 2011 | 52 comments
14. What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters (technologyreview.com)
121 points by TuxPirate on May 25, 2011 | 53 comments
15. How I've started to contribute to open source (binarybalance.com.au)
122 points by gaelian on May 25, 2011 | 20 comments
16. Uber CEO: I Think I’ve Got 20,000 Years Of Jail Time In Front Of Me (techcrunch.com)
115 points by bjonathan on May 25, 2011 | 77 comments
17. 1 Database Containing 35,000,000 Google Profiles. Implications? (cyberwar.nl)
104 points by sathyabhat on May 25, 2011 | 38 comments
18. Ads Implant False Memories (wired.com)
104 points by cwan on May 25, 2011 | 35 comments
19. Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses (fastcompany.com)
106 points by davewiner on May 25, 2011 | 109 comments
20. When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed (time.com)
98 points by vaksel on May 25, 2011 | 104 comments
21. Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Prog Lang of the Year (mvdirona.com)
96 points by yarapavan on May 25, 2011 | 11 comments
22. Open: A tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their students (opentheclassroom.com)
83 points by boazsender on May 25, 2011 | 40 comments
23. Why We Haven't Seen Any Lawsuits Filed Over Domain Seizures? (techdirt.com)
78 points by vabole on May 25, 2011 | 8 comments
24. Our superficial scholars (washingtonpost.com)
76 points by sajid on May 25, 2011 | 35 comments
25. Game made using only CSS (asiajin.com)
76 points by pwim on May 25, 2011 | 18 comments
26. NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover (nytimes.com)
74 points by United857 on May 25, 2011 | 29 comments
27. Apple’s iOS 4 hardware encryption has been cracked (geek.com)
73 points by adeelarshad82 on May 25, 2011 | 35 comments
28. Why was Boston's winter so horrible this year? (jon22.net)
72 points by mfringel on May 25, 2011 | 27 comments
29. EVE Online submits DMCA takedown to GitHub (github.com/github)
70 points by cygwin98 on May 25, 2011 | 41 comments
30. Phrack Magazine's classic article on OS/kernel development (phrack.org)
68 points by fogus on May 25, 2011 | 3 comments

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