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31. Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement (arstechnica.com)
81 points by DiabloD3 on May 15, 2012 | 9 comments
32. Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today (forbes.com/sites/timothylee)
76 points by Aloisius on May 15, 2012 | 127 comments
33. Hiring experiment: hiring experts in 20 minute chunks (glittle.org)
75 points by leeny on May 15, 2012 | 24 comments
34. First draft of HTML img srcset for responsive images (whatwg.org)
73 points by jacobr on May 15, 2012 | 77 comments
35. Anatomy of a Reducer (clojure.com)
75 points by fogus on May 15, 2012 | 7 comments
36. State Machines (markwshead.com)
67 points by fogus on May 15, 2012 | 31 comments
37. How To Find Startup Ideas (wesleytansey.com)
66 points by tansey on May 15, 2012 | 23 comments
38. Protocols over APIs (superfeedr.com)
66 points by julien on May 15, 2012 | 17 comments
39. SS-Lisp — run Lisp in your browser (IDE + compiler + VM) (bazon.net)
64 points by p4bl0 on May 15, 2012 | 10 comments
40. You Have To Get Good Before You Get Better (danshipper.com)
65 points by dshipper on May 15, 2012 | 11 comments
41. If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright? (wired.com)
59 points by apievangelist on May 15, 2012 | 33 comments
42. Lightbox is joining Facebook (lightbox.com)
61 points by revorad on May 15, 2012 | 44 comments
43. Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript (kickstarter.com)
56 points by jdlshore on May 15, 2012 | 23 comments
44. Python is a voluntary language (johndcook.com)
55 points by kracekumar on May 15, 2012 | 60 comments
45. SocialCam's shady secret (mgalligan.com)
54 points by lleims on May 15, 2012 | 14 comments
46. Silicon Valley Is Stuck In An Uncanny Valley Of Density (forbes.com/sites/timothylee)
53 points by friism on May 15, 2012 | 55 comments
47. N Reduce opens up as alternative to ultra-elite startup incubators (xconomy.com)
53 points by waderoush on May 15, 2012 | 21 comments
48. Dell Apologizes for Hiring 'Shut Up Bitch' Moderator (wired.com)
50 points by chris_wot on May 15, 2012 | 71 comments
49. Redis-faina: a query analysis tool for Redis (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
50 points by mikeyk on May 15, 2012 | 2 comments
50. The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet (pingdom.com)
43 points by icehawk on May 15, 2012 | 18 comments
51. Long-tail acquirers for medium exits (gabrielweinberg.com)
41 points by revorad on May 15, 2012 | 12 comments
52. New Planet Found in Our Solar System? (nationalgeographic.com)
40 points by japaget on May 15, 2012 | 13 comments
53. Roadmap – nginx (nginx.org)
40 points by twapi on May 15, 2012 | 16 comments
54. How Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet (gizmodo.com)
39 points by PeterMcCanney on May 15, 2012 | 1 comment
55. Ask HN: How do you deal with missing out on the Facebook money train?
39 points by ithrowitforfree on May 15, 2012 | 32 comments
56. Graffiti & Open-Source: The tale of Banksy and the good and the bad open source (nunojob.com)
38 points by dscape on May 15, 2012 | 4 comments
57. New Firefox Beta for Android with Flash support (blog.mozilla.org)
37 points by mbrubeck on May 15, 2012 | 15 comments
58. 42% of URLs have Open Graph tags (embed.ly)
37 points by screeley on May 15, 2012 | 11 comments
59. Clayton Christensen: Instilling the Value of Integrity in Your Heart (upenn.edu)
37 points by ppaulca on May 15, 2012 | 5 comments
60. Why Android should switch to Go (thomashunter.name)
35 points by tlhunter on May 15, 2012 | 20 comments

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