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1.		FBI Tracking Device Teardown (ifixit.com)
		325 points by mikecarlton on May 9, 2011 \| 79 comments
2.		What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? (nymag.com)
		321 points by gamble on May 9, 2011 \| 207 comments
3.		The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” (torrentfreak.com)
		241 points by Uncle_Sam on May 9, 2011 \| 103 comments
4.		What percentage of people are alive today? (1000memories.com)
		233 points by jonathanbgood on May 9, 2011 \| 91 comments
5.		Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming with OpenGL 3 (arcsynthesis.org)
		191 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 9, 2011 \| 16 comments
6.		Schneier: The Dishonest Minority: Security and its Role in Modern Society (schneier.com)
		171 points by FilterJoe on May 9, 2011 \| 57 comments
7.		Realism in UI Design (uxmag.com)
		170 points by thmzlt on May 9, 2011 \| 35 comments
8.		An algorithm for the Names at the 9/11 Memorial (newyorker.com)
		154 points by erehweb on May 9, 2011 \| 47 comments
9.		Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS (staynalive.com)
		142 points by ssclafani on May 9, 2011 \| 45 comments
10.		Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows (viget.com)
		124 points by paisawalla on May 9, 2011 \| 15 comments
11.		Why you get ideas in the shower (scottberkun.com)
		116 points by ecaron on May 9, 2011 \| 51 comments
12.		Samoa to jump forward in time by one day (bbc.co.uk)
		111 points by JacobAldridge on May 9, 2011 \| 73 comments
13.		Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart (dougmccune.com)
		109 points by Garbage on May 9, 2011 \| 14 comments
14.		Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
		90 points by jkreeftmeijer on May 9, 2011 \| 25 comments
15.		Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company (joshwhiton.com)
		85 points by aspirant on May 9, 2011 \| 65 comments
16.		WebKit Remote Debugging (webkit.org)
		85 points by justinweiss on May 9, 2011 \| 14 comments
17.		The Rise of the Front-End Developer (eduhub.nl)
		86 points by sudhirj on May 9, 2011 \| 14 comments
18.		Bitcoin money ≠ the Gold Standard. (bitcoinbulletin.com)
		84 points by spenvo on May 9, 2011 \| 104 comments
19.		Applying the Unix Process Model to Web Apps (heroku.com)
		81 points by ph0rque on May 9, 2011 \| 4 comments
20.		IOS 4.3 sources are available (opensource.apple.com)
		77 points by singingwolfboy on May 9, 2011 \| 30 comments
21.		Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you? (asmartbear.com)
		77 points by revorad on May 9, 2011 \| 14 comments
22.		Open Letter To New Programmers (akash.im)
		76 points by krat0sprakhar on May 9, 2011 \| 39 comments
23.		Programmable OLED watch by Texas Instruments and Fossil (metawatch.org)
		73 points by growt on May 9, 2011 \| 49 comments
24.		Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008) (al3x.net)
		73 points by franze on May 9, 2011 \| 50 comments
		kwiens on May 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: FBI Tracking Device Teardown I did the teardown, and I'm a regular hacker news reader. I'll answer any questions for the next hour or so.
26.		Why Not All Earnings Are Equal; Microsoft Has the Wal-Mart Disease (blogs.forbes.com)
		69 points by vrikhter on May 9, 2011 \| 46 comments
		Search engine (google.com)
		63 points \| parent
28.		Start-up vs. Corporate vs. Consulting vs. Combination Platter (vladlokshin.com)
		63 points by vlokshin on May 9, 2011 \| 10 comments
		xutopia on May 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Google Chrome Hacked? The reality is that there is probably no chance that they would ever find these bugs if they weren't funded to do it and the only way to be funded is to have customers. The net result is probably safer software for all.
30.		Canonical, Ubuntu Linux, CTO leaves (zdnet.com)
		58 points by Garbage on May 9, 2011 \| 2 comments
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