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1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account (ieee.org)
87 points by mhb on May 21, 2009 | 13 comments
2. Bypass the internet for large transfers: AWS Import/Export (amazon.com)
86 points by mattjaynes on May 21, 2009 | 30 comments
3. Apple bans an iPhone e-reader because it provides access to the Kama Sutra (technologizer.com)
82 points by technologizer on May 21, 2009 | 47 comments
4. A Coder's Guide to Coffee (moertel.com)
75 points by buluzhai on May 21, 2009 | 55 comments
5. A Life that Added Up to Something: Paul Erdos (1996) (ohio-state.edu)
66 points by Radix on May 21, 2009 | 16 comments
6. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias (wired.com)
66 points by vaksel on May 21, 2009 | 12 comments
7. Verified Extortion (mattmaroon.com)
62 points by brett on May 21, 2009 | 35 comments
8. C and C++ are not the same language. (directededge.com)
60 points by wheels on May 21, 2009 | 44 comments
9. Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product (panic.com)
56 points by amilr on May 21, 2009 | 18 comments
10. Simple Twitter clone using only the Redis key-value store as db and PHP (code.google.com)
51 points by paraschopra on May 21, 2009 | 15 comments
11. Timeline of a Car Crash (drive.com.au)
47 points by splat on May 21, 2009 | 24 comments
12. Nokia Makes Unused Patents Available to All (fastcompany.com)
45 points by amilr on May 21, 2009 | 6 comments
13. Ronco Spray-On Usability (daringfireball.net)
43 points by amilr on May 21, 2009 | 20 comments
14. Finding flow (psychologytoday.com)
41 points by imgabe on May 21, 2009 | 3 comments
15. Ask YC/HN: What Should I Ask Dr. Wolfram?
40 points by Mystalic on May 21, 2009 | 25 comments
16. 4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos (arstechnica.com)
39 points by vaksel on May 21, 2009 | 21 comments
17. Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge (sunlightlabs.com)
41 points by cjoh on May 21, 2009 | 6 comments
18. Ask HN: Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be?
37 points by alrex021 on May 21, 2009 | 22 comments
19. The Next iPhone (daringfireball.net)
37 points by tortilla on May 21, 2009 | 45 comments
20. Declaring the ‘Long Tail’ Dead (newstatesman.com)
35 points by robg on May 21, 2009 | 29 comments
21. The Cult of Done Manifesto (brepettis.com)
35 points by jcsalterego on May 21, 2009 | 14 comments
22. Justin.tv has more incoming video than YouTube (mashable.com)
33 points by abstractbill on May 21, 2009 | 16 comments
23. Plugging In $40 Computers (nytimes.com)
32 points by jbrun on May 21, 2009 | 19 comments
24. Ask HN: Favorite true story tech book?
31 points by amilr on May 21, 2009 | 55 comments
25. Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video] (stanford.edu)
31 points by Jasber on May 21, 2009 | 8 comments
26. Employee Performance Reviews Do More Harm Than Good (jacksonfish.com)
30 points by hillel on May 21, 2009 | 26 comments
27. Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation yet? (visibletweets.com)
29 points by swombat on May 21, 2009 | 19 comments
28. The Climate-Industrial Complex (wsj.com)
29 points by gibsonf1 on May 21, 2009 | 35 comments
29. Why Blackboard's Plan to Buy a Rival Sparked a Campus Uproar (chronicle.com)
29 points by crocus on May 21, 2009 | 14 comments
30. ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (ejohn.org)
26 points by johns on May 21, 2009 | 6 comments

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