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1.A Guide to Stocks & Options for the Startup Entrepreneur (or Employee) (scribd.com)
202 points by dweekly on May 22, 2011 | 24 comments
2.Byron Sonne’s G20 security focus cost him dearly (torontolife.com)
180 points by colinprince on May 22, 2011 | 66 comments
3.Rails 3.1: Release candidate (rubyonrails.org)
180 points by SingAlong on May 22, 2011 | 26 comments
4.Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C (zx2c4.com)
165 points by gnosis on May 22, 2011 | 24 comments
5.None of Us Knows What We're Doing (feross.org)
164 points by srid on May 22, 2011 | 50 comments
6.Treatise on Font Rasterisation (witherden.org)
154 points by adambyrtek on May 22, 2011 | 15 comments
7.What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers? (jitbit.com)
152 points by jitbit on May 22, 2011 | 46 comments
8.London Is Gonna Be Pissed, But We Prefer Berlin for Startups (techcrunch.com)
146 points by harscoat on May 22, 2011 | 128 comments
9.Woman earns college degree two decades after complete memory loss (washingtonpost.com)
131 points by GiraffeNecktie on May 22, 2011 | 25 comments
10.Google blocks movie service on rooted Android devices (google.com)
113 points by d0ne on May 22, 2011 | 57 comments
11.Byte-saving techniques in JavaScript (github.com/jed)
112 points by jedschmidt on May 22, 2011 | 22 comments
12.Run Linux in your Browser JSLinux (Update)
109 points by js4all on May 22, 2011 | 33 comments
13.The CEO's job (jessicamah.com)
106 points by mindball on May 22, 2011 | 37 comments
14.Linux on Windows (Wine in reverse) (wezfurlong.org)
98 points by p4bl0 on May 22, 2011 | 15 comments
15.Lost at C? Forth May Be the Answer (forth.org)
93 points by gnosis on May 22, 2011 | 47 comments
16.Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead (businessweek.com)
89 points by vladd on May 22, 2011 | 59 comments
17.U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures (torrentfreak.com)
83 points by Garbage on May 22, 2011 | 30 comments
18.Why is TCP accept() performance so bad under Xen? (serverfault.com)
81 points by DanWaterworth on May 22, 2011 | 24 comments
19.The University Has No Clothes (nymag.com)
71 points by _zhqs on May 22, 2011 | 85 comments
20.How Area51 Hid Secret Planes (nationalgeographic.com)
69 points by brk on May 22, 2011 | 1 comment

I think that the most disturbing thing about this article is the comments. I'm amazed that there are people that seem to think this sort of treatment of people for non-crimes like owning acetone and hydrogen peroxide is justified.
22.Tagsistant: a reasoning semantic filesystem for Linux and BSD (tagsistant.net)
64 points by gnosis on May 22, 2011 | 39 comments
23.10x speedup in write performance in Riak Innostore based on keyname (basho.com)
63 points by LiveTheDream on May 22, 2011 | 11 comments
24.Why Java folks should stop looking down on C#: differences in similarities (kalistick.com)
60 points by pankratiev on May 22, 2011 | 65 comments
25.Any desktop app based startups?
57 points by ct on May 22, 2011 | 60 comments
26.The three-day weekend: a dream deferred (theglobeandmail.com)
51 points by rfugger on May 22, 2011 | 29 comments
27.Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript (github.com/adambeynon)
48 points by orangea on May 22, 2011 | 13 comments
28.Show HN: dmangame - a python AI game
48 points by okayzedd on May 22, 2011 | 8 comments
29.How to compile with continuations (might.net)
47 points by ColinWright on May 22, 2011 | 3 comments

The scariest one for me was the one that said, "This idiot should be jailed for life for he potentially could have done." Er, what? By that logic, all of us should be pre-emptively jailed, because we all have the "potential" to become terrorists.

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