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1.		The senators who say linking to certain sites should be a felony (techdirt.com)
		184 points by d0ne on May 15, 2011 \| 90 comments
2.		How to make wifi work at tech conferences (nonblocking.io)
		166 points by cramforce on May 15, 2011 \| 37 comments
3.		JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't (timelessrepo.com)
		157 points by judofyr on May 15, 2011 \| 35 comments
4.		Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough (tstmedia.com)
		144 points by LargeWu on May 15, 2011 \| 137 comments
5.		Carnegie Mellon creates fund to invest in its recent graduates (cmu.edu)
		133 points by dpieri on May 15, 2011 \| 42 comments
6.		What’s up with ARM (linuxfoundation.org)
		124 points by pmjordan on May 15, 2011 \| 6 comments
		alain94040 on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly I got an email from Honestly showing me a picture of my wife, saying she is on Honestly. She was sitting next to me when I got the email, so I turned to her and asked: are you using Honestly? "Never heard of it" was her answer. Rarely has a company chosen a name so opposed to their values.
8.		President Obama Wants You--In Jail (quora.com)
		116 points by thinkcomp on May 15, 2011 \| 28 comments
9.		The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment (techcrunch.com)
		117 points by playhard on May 15, 2011 \| 23 comments
10.		Perl 5.14 released (perlfoundation.org)
		105 points by Jak3t on May 15, 2011 \| 26 comments
11.		Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform (zuupy.com)
		105 points by fezzl on May 15, 2011 \| 45 comments
12.		Hire based on interest, not credentials (regardingwork.com)
		92 points by fontana on May 15, 2011 \| 19 comments
13.		Bill Gates: Why MIT matters (boston.com)
		87 points by robg on May 15, 2011 \| 34 comments
14.		DCA: A simple, unpatentable cancer treatment? (ualberta.ca)
		82 points by anxiousape on May 15, 2011 \| 27 comments
15.		Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94) (parc.com)
		82 points by swah on May 15, 2011 \| 35 comments
16.		UC Berkeley Engineers help paraplegic student walk at graduation (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
		73 points by teej on May 15, 2011 \| 8 comments
17.		The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later (thenextweb.com)
		72 points by cdp on May 15, 2011 \| 48 comments
18.		A conversation about open source licenses (gist.github.com)
		73 points by ashchristopher on May 15, 2011 \| 33 comments
19.		Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition - Preview (portswigger.net)
		70 points by wglb on May 15, 2011 \| 14 comments
20.		Is Bitcoin the most dangerous open source project ever? (launch.is)
		66 points by jasonmcalacanis on May 15, 2011 \| 31 comments
		wccrawford on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly What he received by email was spam, plain and simple. And the despicable way they handle signups speaks for itself. I would never have gotten as far as he did because I know that anyone who does that is scamming me. There's no other reason to do it. If people actually liked the service, they wouldn't need to twist your arm to get you to sign up.
22.		An Open Letter to Matt Cutts & the Google Web Spam Team (loveclients.com)
		62 points by fodunkin on May 15, 2011 \| 27 comments
23.		Betting on Bitcoin: Fundamentals vs Technical Analysis (gd0t.com)
		58 points by eof on May 15, 2011 \| 57 comments
		ot on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't tl;dr: the JSON specification accepts two obscure Unicode codepoints in string literals that the JS specification doesn't. eval() may fail on valid JSON. Workaround: escape those codepoints. Plus sensationalistic title and pedantic introduction.
25.		How good is Google’s Instant Mix? (musicmachinery.com)
		57 points by hillad on May 15, 2011 \| 29 comments
26.		Deploying Python WSGI applications with Puppet (uggedal.com)
		54 points by uggedal on May 15, 2011 \| 14 comments
		Jeema3000 on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: The senators who say linking to certain sites shou... Let's take this speculative legislation down the slippery slope, shall we? Next stop: full-speed collision with the First Amendment!... Putting the URL in question on a website... but it's not actually a hyperlink, just plain text? Felony or not? Printing the URL on a t-shirt and selling them? Felony or not? Passing out pamphlets that list the URL? Felony or not? Mentioning the URL in a news publication? Felony or not? Telling your friend the URL? Felony or not?
28.		How to start your startup in 4 steps (joel.is)
		50 points by joelg87 on May 15, 2011 \| 5 comments
29.		Glitch In iTunes Activation Servers (shoutpedia.com)
		46 points by bigiain on May 15, 2011 \| 28 comments
		neild on May 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: At what point does being a loyal early hir... Loyalty is a wonderful thing. You should demonstrate your loyalty by giving your company a full two weeks notice when you leave. You're being taken advantage of, and you know it or you wouldn't have posted this. You're taking an under-market salary and no benefits, which means you're probably making about 50% of what you should be when you count health care, 401k and so forth. You have no equity, which is the traditional tradeoff at a startup: Accept a reduced salary for the possibility of a large payoff at the end. Right now, your best case scenario is that the company is wildly successful, the founders go on to fame and fortune, and if you're very, very lucky, they might just decide to throw you a bone. Which they won't. Leave.
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