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31.Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 (hacks.mozilla.org)
74 points by robin_reala on May 11, 2012 | 34 comments
32.Every issue of New Scientist from 1956 to 1989 (books.google.com)
72 points by machrider on May 11, 2012 | 7 comments
33.Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun (2005) (nytimes.com)
71 points by gaius on May 11, 2012 | 15 comments
34.Cubby Is Like Dropbox... If Dropbox Also Had Free, Unlimited Syncing (lifehacker.com)
70 points by Wump on May 11, 2012 | 47 comments
35.Bitcoinica hacked. ~$100k USD stolen. (bitcoinica.com)
68 points by mschonfeld on May 11, 2012 | 85 comments
36.Wayland anti-FUD (ppaalanen.blogspot.de)
67 points by VMG on May 11, 2012 | 46 comments
37.Why HBO's president panned Internet streaming (and Forbes' linkbait) (dcurt.is)
67 points by dko on May 11, 2012 | 27 comments
38.Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space (fastcompany.com)
64 points by mikeleeorg on May 11, 2012 | 17 comments
39.Git-based fabric deploys are awesome (bravender.us)
62 points by drtse4 on May 11, 2012 | 20 comments
40.Zoo chimp makes elaborate plots to attack humans (msn.com)
62 points by jamesbritt on May 11, 2012 | 19 comments
41.Tagstand (YC S11) NFC-Enables A Giant Party, Lets Guests Tweet From Wristbands (techcrunch.com)
57 points by kul on May 11, 2012 | 12 comments
42.Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git (nitro.dk)
56 points by keyist on May 11, 2012 | 14 comments
43.Compiling To Javascript In Continuation Passing Style, Can We Optimize? (jlongster.com)
57 points by jlongster on May 11, 2012 | 29 comments
44.ZeroN system holds a ball wherever you place it, in mid-air (gizmag.com)
54 points by polymathist on May 11, 2012 | 17 comments
45.Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends (techcrunch.com)
52 points by scapbi on May 11, 2012 | 49 comments
46.Github's modifications to Twitter's TwUI pulled into master (github.com/blog)
51 points by pathdependent on May 11, 2012 | 6 comments
47.Startups Court Dev Bootcamp’s Ruby Grads, 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K (techcrunch.com)
47 points by lachyg on May 11, 2012 | 53 comments
48.Searching without PageRank (blekko.com)
45 points by wumpus on May 11, 2012 | 16 comments
49.IOS Low-Hanging Fruit (daringfireball.net)
42 points by nsavant on May 11, 2012 | 48 comments
50.How a train ride helped Mixpanel get into YC (garry.posterous.com)
42 points by dko on May 11, 2012 | 10 comments
51.Z Kombinator (zkombinator.com)
43 points by hassy on May 11, 2012 | 22 comments
52.New website with freebies - Design it & Code it (designitcodeit.com)
39 points by Idered on May 11, 2012 | 6 comments
53.Why you need to work with the machine, not against it (venturebeat.com)
36 points by jmtame on May 11, 2012 | 11 comments
54.Twitter Ambrose: Real-time viz of Hadoop workflows (github.com/twitter)
34 points by nphase on May 11, 2012 | 4 comments
55.Bishop: A Webmachine-like Library for Clojure (nervestaple.com)
33 points by cmiles74 on May 11, 2012 | 4 comments
56.Foxconn Chief Confirms The Apple iTV (techcrunch.com)
33 points by nikunjk on May 11, 2012 | 35 comments
57.Steve Jobs: the difference between superb programmers vs. average ones is 25:1 (fastcompany.com)
33 points by tambourine_man on May 11, 2012 | 41 comments
58.Night Vision: a very real UX problem (wherein.posterous.com)
33 points by niels_olson on May 11, 2012 | 27 comments
59.Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences (browsomatic.com)
32 points by girishmony on May 11, 2012 | 27 comments
60.GNU Emacs Reference mugs now available (fsf.org)
32 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 11, 2012 | 14 comments

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