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1.HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones (facebook.com)
402 points by drivebyacct2 on May 27, 2011 | 77 comments
2.It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how. (markmaunder.com)
325 points by mmaunder on May 27, 2011 | 173 comments
3.On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
313 points by EdiX on May 27, 2011 | 107 comments
4.These are things in PHP which make me sad (phpsadness.com)
243 points by johnkary on May 27, 2011 | 212 comments
5.Let's just use Emacs (beastwithin.org)
220 points by codeup on May 27, 2011 | 160 comments
6.Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll (tumbledry.org)
214 points by hung on May 27, 2011 | 48 comments
7.Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone (asymco.com)
218 points by woobar on May 27, 2011 | 66 comments
8.The problem is we don't understand the problem (azarask.in)
172 points by cynusx on May 27, 2011 | 19 comments
9.PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet (thepaypalblog.com)
166 points by zengr on May 27, 2011 | 71 comments
10.Voronoi Polygonal Map Generation (stanford.edu)
161 points by Luyt on May 27, 2011 | 5 comments
11.What Really Keeps Poor People Poor (jonbischke.com)
164 points by jonbischke on May 27, 2011 | 144 comments
12.Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth (ieee.org)
160 points by jcr on May 27, 2011 | 32 comments
13.Ideas Matter (k9.vc)
135 points by sneakersneaker on May 27, 2011 | 47 comments
14.How to intercept Skype calls (scmagazine.com.au)
107 points by maskofsanity on May 27, 2011 | 30 comments
15.Implementing a fast interpreter without resorting to assembly (emulators.com)
93 points by mad on May 27, 2011 | 15 comments
16.Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs (techcrunch.com)
88 points by ssclafani on May 27, 2011 | 44 comments
17.World’s first commercial quantum computer sold to Lockheed Martin (venturebeat.com)
77 points by malvosenior on May 27, 2011 | 31 comments
18.How Zynga Uses Ghetto Testing, A/B Testing, Minimum Viable Products (grattisfaction.com)
75 points by DanielRibeiro on May 27, 2011 | 20 comments
19.Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch (techcrunch.com)
71 points by ssclafani on May 27, 2011 | 19 comments
20.Google Translate API is now deprecated. (code.google.com)
69 points by Klonoar on May 27, 2011 | 16 comments
21.Differences between German and British manners (bbc.co.uk)
68 points by ireadzalot on May 27, 2011 | 75 comments
22.Computational Linguistics became an open access journal (mitpressjournals.org)
66 points by rbanffy on May 27, 2011 | 5 comments
23.House - an operating system written in Haskell (pdx.edu)
63 points by fogus on May 27, 2011 | 9 comments
24.Following the 1st link on Wikipedia leads to 'Philosophy' for 93.4% of pages (kevinstock.org)
61 points by p4bl0 on May 27, 2011 | 31 comments
25.How a band got into Y Combinator: The Earbits story (YC W11) (thestartupfoundry.com)
60 points by g0atbutt on May 27, 2011 | 9 comments
26.What the Highest-Paid Programmers Earn (adtmag.com)
58 points by msredmond on May 27, 2011 | 43 comments
27.Blorgit: Org-Mode based, git amenable, blogging engine (orgmode.org)
57 points by chalst on May 27, 2011 | 8 comments
28.Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops the Ball (readwriteweb.com)
56 points by helwr on May 27, 2011 | 16 comments
29.Friends to Gmail (friendstogmail.com)
50 points by sahillavingia on May 27, 2011 | 21 comments
30.Deploying a Rails 3.1 app in production (moocode.com)
46 points by vijaydev on May 27, 2011 | 13 comments

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