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61. Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case (arstechnica.com)
22 points by mkelly on May 17, 2010 | 18 comments
62. In Defense of Facebook (mashable.com)
21 points by elleferrer on May 17, 2010 | 30 comments
63. The Web Way to Learn a Language (nytimes.com)
21 points by derekc on May 17, 2010 | 6 comments
64. If Windows 3.11 required a 32-bit CPU, why was it called a 16-bit OS? (msdn.com)
21 points by scw on May 17, 2010 | 7 comments
65. Sleep Better: Be Uncomfortable. (lifehack.org)
20 points by lukeqsee on May 17, 2010 | 28 comments
66. Linux Mint 9 Released (heanet.ie)
20 points by Indyan on May 17, 2010 | 7 comments
67. Moot’s Investors Revealed: Andreessen, Conway, Dixon, Schachter and Lerer (techcrunch.com)
20 points by aditya on May 17, 2010 | 19 comments
68. IBM Model M keyboard Simulator (webwit.nl)
20 points by gtani on May 17, 2010 | 10 comments
69. How your Web browser rats you out online (arstechnica.com)
19 points by lukeqsee on May 17, 2010 | 5 comments
70. 3 weeks into full time startup, need your thoughts on our project
18 points by coryl on May 17, 2010 | 52 comments
71. Who's hiring remotely?
17 points by DumbledoreSnipe on May 17, 2010 | 2 comments
72. UK Chancellor targets IT projects in £6 billion cuts (computerworlduk.com)
17 points by strawberryshake on May 17, 2010 | 31 comments
73. Have an IE6 only application? (publicstatic.net)
16 points by mrj on May 17, 2010 | 8 comments
74. Ask HN: Should Diaspora apply to Y Combinator?
16 points by cubes on May 17, 2010 | 29 comments
75. Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect (factoryjoe.com)
15 points by yanw on May 17, 2010
76. Incurable itch: Hacking the human brain (newyorker.com)
14 points by sublemonic on May 17, 2010 | 3 comments
77. Outside Money - Why we're bootstrapping (nakedstartup.com)
14 points by andycroll on May 17, 2010
78. Ethics: a company goes back on its promise to pay interview travel expenses?
13 points by Amanjeev on May 17, 2010 | 30 comments
79. Java Concurrency : Part 2 – Manipulate Threads (baptiste-wicht.com)
13 points by noarchy on May 17, 2010
80. How to Suck at Branding (feint.me)
13 points by feint on May 17, 2010 | 2 comments
81. Like slime for vim (technotales.wordpress.com)
13 points by JoshCole on May 17, 2010 | 6 comments
82. Tell HN: We launched Gaia GPS on Android today (gaiagps.com)
13 points by andrewljohnson on May 17, 2010 | 9 comments
83. Speech Recognition with Javascript (ajaxian.com)
13 points by Caligula on May 17, 2010 | 4 comments
84. USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 (telegraph.co.uk)
12 points by cwan on May 17, 2010
85. Frank Sinatra: "Talent must not be wasted" (lettersofnote.com)
12 points by barredo on May 17, 2010
86. Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) (usenix.org)
12 points by LiveTheDream on May 17, 2010 | 9 comments
87. Steve Jobs to Valleywag Why are You So Bitter? (venturebeat.com)
12 points by keltecp11 on May 17, 2010 | 40 comments
88. OneWay 0.5.2 Released – Thank you, Hacker News (goto11.net)
13 points by nrj on May 17, 2010 | 5 comments
89. 有中国的同胞吗?
11 points by lirufei0808 on May 17, 2010 | 17 comments
90. Lying children will grow up to be successful citizens (telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by amichail on May 17, 2010 | 2 comments

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