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1.		Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I (tbbuck.com)
		421 points by mootothemax on April 21, 2011 \| 115 comments
2.		"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable' (gmane.org)
		352 points by signa11 on April 21, 2011 \| 126 comments
3.		AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling (justinsb.posterous.com)
		347 points by justinsb on April 21, 2011 \| 80 comments
4.		My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007) (washingtonpost.com)
		307 points by boredguy8 on April 21, 2011 \| 60 comments
5.		2-D Glasses (2d-glasses.com)
		281 points by hammock on April 21, 2011 \| 67 comments
6.		Thank HN: 127 days since I asked for your advice.
		253 points by throwaway267 on April 21, 2011 \| 44 comments
7.		IBM's infamous "Black Team" (t3.org)
		232 points by shawndumas on April 21, 2011 \| 51 comments
8.		Great jquery tutorial (jqfundamentals.com)
		187 points by bzupnick on April 21, 2011 \| 11 comments
9.		Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music (littlewhiteearbuds.com)
		175 points by tintin on April 21, 2011 \| 45 comments
10.		Apple is not “recording your moves” (willclarke.net)
		157 points by mercurio on April 21, 2011 \| 78 comments
11.		Fallacies of Distributed Computing (wikipedia.org)
		139 points by mindcrime on April 21, 2011 \| 48 comments
12.		A common bug in published code (google.com)
		140 points by shawndumas on April 21, 2011 \| 71 comments
13.		Why Groupon Sucks for Merchants and LivingSocial Doesn't (venturelevel.com)
		128 points by venturelevel on April 21, 2011 \| 40 comments
14.		The Economics of Dropbox (w2lessons.com)
		110 points by mwbiz on April 21, 2011 \| 50 comments
15.		Sugar and Health: Interview with UCSF professor Robert Lustig (kqed.org)
		108 points by kqr2 on April 21, 2011 \| 54 comments
16.		Actual JavaScript Engine Performance (crockford.com)
		107 points by riffraff on April 21, 2011 \| 62 comments
17.		Go At Heroku (Doozer) (golang.org)
		106 points by bmizerany on April 21, 2011 \| 10 comments
18.		Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (1999) (nytimes.com)
		101 points by cwan on April 21, 2011 \| 38 comments
19.		The education bubble: Tech progress may reduce the demand for high-end jobs (economist.com)
		93 points by terio on April 21, 2011 \| 58 comments
		nbpoole on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007) Since that editorial was published (back in 2007), the person who wrote it, Nicholas Merrill, has been "partially un-gagged": he is now able to talk publicly about portions of the case. A followup Washington Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08... He also did an IAmA post on reddit, which has a lot of information: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of... (Since reddit is down right now, here's the cached Google version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...) --- Edit: Wanted to add a link to a later followup post he made on Reddit, talking about his plans to start a "Non-profit ISP and Teleco": http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fkndx/update_nat... (And the Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...) --- Edit: And in case people are curious about the actual court case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Ashcroft
21.		Rails 3.1 has jQuery by default (rubyonrails.org)
		85 points by vijaydev on April 21, 2011 \| 34 comments
		daleharvey on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Actual JavaScript Engine Performance If I was trying to think of something less representative of large well written javascript application I would have a hard time thinking of something better than JSLint. It doesnt touch the dom, is not event driven, doesnt involve loading lots of files and does not render anything
23.		SimpleGeo puts 20 million places in the public domain. (readwriteweb.com)
		87 points by zacharyvoase on April 21, 2011 \| 20 comments
24.		Don't blame Amazon for your lack of redundancy (cloudability.com)
		86 points by matellis on April 21, 2011 \| 21 comments
25.		How Books were made in 1947 [video] (youtu.be)
		77 points by mmcconnell1618 on April 21, 2011 \| 34 comments
26.		RESTduino - Arduino hacking for the REST of us (jasongullickson.posterous.com)
		75 points by jasongullickson on April 21, 2011 \| 18 comments
27.		What will Google offer? (google.com)
		76 points by thankuz on April 21, 2011 \| 73 comments
		ElbertF on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: 2-D Glasses I see we've finally come to a full circle. Here's a device to view the entire world in 2D: http://i.imgur.com/BjY53.jpg.
		jedberg on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Amazon Web Services are down Don't worry. If skynet is in EC2, we'll be fine.
		coderdude on April 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: "... so now I will jiggle things randomly until th... I always get a kick out of how Linus talks to people. It's so direct and he never coats his arguments to make them easier to swallow. You could learn a lot about not bullshitting from that guy.
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