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1. TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement (acko.net)
1056 points by pimeys on May 18, 2011 | 200 comments
2. Do not let your domain expire with Google Apps (benreyes.posterous.com)
281 points by benreyes on May 18, 2011 | 63 comments
3. Being Frugal Makes You A Loser (ajkesslerblog.com)
269 points by ajkessler on May 18, 2011 | 206 comments
4. PSN has been hacked again (mcvuk.com)
265 points by ukdm on May 18, 2011 | 64 comments
5. The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours (bbc.co.uk)
259 points by thekevan on May 18, 2011 | 50 comments
6. Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups (wired.com)
228 points by twakefield on May 18, 2011 | 31 comments
7. Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!) (eaavideo.org)
221 points by graffitishark on May 18, 2011 | 70 comments
8. Twitter’s Shit Sandwich (daringfireball.net)
219 points by berberich on May 18, 2011 | 111 comments
9. GroupTalent - Hire Effective Teams. Not Individuals. (grouptalent.com)
191 points by ghempton on May 18, 2011 | 55 comments
10. Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024 (nextbigfuture.com)
185 points by Anon84 on May 18, 2011 | 167 comments
11. Brick Nintendo before they brick you (defectivebydesign.org)
177 points by Auguste on May 18, 2011 | 54 comments
12. The Hacker's Path (heroku.com)
149 points by mklappstuhl on May 18, 2011 | 75 comments
13. All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak (code.google.com)
151 points by valyala on May 18, 2011 | 65 comments
14. The Bobby Fischer Defense, by Garry Kasparov (nybooks.com)
143 points by michael_nielsen on May 18, 2011 | 42 comments
15. Ramanujan's Notebooks (imsc.res.in)
134 points by motxilo on May 18, 2011 | 22 comments
16. Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Role Model. Reid Hoffman Is. (techcrunch.com)
123 points by jnoller on May 18, 2011 | 29 comments
17. IOS vs. Android from the Trenches (bu.mp)
121 points by jmintz on May 18, 2011 | 61 comments
18. On HTTP Load Testing (mnot.net)
109 points by ctide on May 18, 2011 | 11 comments
19. Spritemapper: CSS sprite map generator using simulated annealing (yostudios.github.com)
104 points by aeontech on May 18, 2011 | 22 comments
20. AusCERT arrest - yes, "arrest" (smh.com.au)
95 points by justatdotin on May 18, 2011 | 69 comments
21. Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt (techcrunch.com)
93 points by ssclafani on May 18, 2011 | 19 comments
22. Colm programming language released: best parser-writer ever (complang.org)
87 points by edwardog on May 18, 2011 | 42 comments
23. A Unix shell written in Google Go (github.com/michaelmacinnis)
91 points by jemeshsu on May 18, 2011 | 8 comments
24. Google chairman: Internet blacklists make us more like China (arstechnica.com)
85 points by timwiseman on May 18, 2011 | 13 comments
25. Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop DDoS Attacks (cloudflare.com)
86 points by eastdakota on May 18, 2011 | 46 comments
26. Why and How You Should Write REST-Centric Applications (w2lessons.com)
79 points by mwbiz on May 18, 2011 | 28 comments
27. Notable iOS Developer Suggests API Boycott to Fight Patent Trolls (readwriteweb.com)
68 points by bond on May 18, 2011 | 31 comments
28. A site devoted to documenting every Facebook investor (whoownsfacebook.com)
66 points by eathas on May 18, 2011 | 16 comments
29. EFF on new electronic privacy bill - government will need to get warrants (eff.org)
67 points by grellas on May 18, 2011 | 16 comments
30. Resign Patterns - a humorous take on design patterns (fuzz-box.blogspot.com)
64 points by arapidhs on May 18, 2011 | 7 comments

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