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1.Behind The Scenes At Adioso - Part 1: Reality Check (tomhoward.co)
348 points by tomhoward on May 8, 2012 | 64 comments
2.A set of top Computer Science blogs (drtomcrick.wordpress.com)
293 points by johndcook on May 8, 2012 | 20 comments
3.Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE (reybango.com)
267 points by cleverjake on May 8, 2012 | 202 comments
4.55,000 Twitter passwords leaked (airdemon.net)
242 points by gravitronic on May 8, 2012 | 104 comments
5.Firefox finally plugs the leak (blog.mozilla.org)
227 points by pbiggar on May 8, 2012 | 107 comments
6.Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library And Model For Collection Processing (clojure.com)
240 points by swannodette on May 8, 2012 | 79 comments
7.Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH (dwolla.com)
219 points by ScotterC on May 8, 2012 | 116 comments
8.Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck (techcrunch.com)
209 points by llambda on May 8, 2012 | 67 comments
9.The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record (torrentfreak.com)
183 points by narad on May 8, 2012 | 137 comments
10.ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank (abc.com)
181 points by seanmccann on May 8, 2012 | 114 comments
11.We don't support Internet Explorer, and we're calling that a feature (paydirtapp.com)
172 points by doctororange on May 8, 2012 | 157 comments
12.Improving your (Python) code with modern idioms (python3porting.com)
160 points by rbanffy on May 8, 2012 | 48 comments
13.I burned out at BigCo. Am I a fool for thinking I can avoid this at a startup?
156 points by thrwwy20120508 on May 8, 2012 | 131 comments
14.How Google's Self-Driving Car Works (ieee.org)
138 points by ma2rten on May 8, 2012 | 126 comments
15.Once (nbashaw.com)
119 points by nbashaw on May 8, 2012 | 43 comments
16.What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software? (stackoverflow.com)
109 points by pooriaazimi on May 8, 2012 | 116 comments
17.Video streaming & net neutrality (ber.gd)
111 points by dalton on May 8, 2012 | 25 comments

I just did a random sampling of these accounts, and what's interesting is that every one of the twenty accounts I looked at had about 3-6 followers, and was following thousands of people (or it was suspended).

All their bios sound like bot-generated text, they all have suspiciously similar passwords that look auto-generated, and none of them seem to have much to say.

On a hunch, I logged in to a few of those accounts and saw that they all had messages asking them to confirm their email addresses, as they had not done so yet.

This is probably not a "leak," but some spammer's list of fake accounts.

19.Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs (phoronix.com)
102 points by davux on May 8, 2012 | 71 comments
20.Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans (heroku.com)
105 points by michaelfairley on May 8, 2012 | 62 comments
21.Intent Tag Has Landed In Webkit (webkit.org)
99 points by kinlan on May 8, 2012 | 55 comments

Who owns ACH? The banks do.

Who owns Dwolla's replacement? Dwolla.

Banks are smarter than that. Adoption of this will be zero.

Instant transfers mean that someone can bankrupt an entire bank - instantly. If someone hacks this brand-new untested system and issues 100% withdrawal orders for every customer account, B of A and Citibank and Wells Fargo and HSBC can all be bankrupted between 10:32:24 and 10:32:25. Ooops!

ACH is slow and revocable on purpose.

23.Ditch all alerts that aren't actionable (gabrielweinberg.com)
95 points by pathdependent on May 8, 2012 | 26 comments
24.Looking At The World Through Twitter Data (scripts.mit.edu)
94 points by arashdelijani on May 8, 2012 | 26 comments
25.Visual design will not fix your broken business (micrypt.com)
92 points by kazey on May 8, 2012 | 48 comments
26.Learning to Program: Why Python? (udacity.blogspot.ca)
94 points by camlinke on May 8, 2012 | 84 comments

Aw man. As a bootstrapping web business guy, I can say I've had way more problems with supporting iPads and iPhones than IE. IE costs me $0 to support, and I don't even bother (nobody asks!). Supporting hip and popular Apple browsers can run me a grand in a fast minute. Pleasing early adopters without working really well on the iPad3 is a tough sell.

I think startups fighting to support < IE9 is a done decision (don't do it). Start worrying about mobile and tablet platforms instead. 'cause the future, it's knocking.

I'm not crazy about getting an iPad myself, but I'm starting to feel cornered into spending hundreds of $$ on one just to keep those early adopters happy. I think this is where the real browser/device compatibility discussion is, not around IE.

28.Help the Hacker Dojo by sending them your recruiter spam (hackerdojo.com)
93 points by bluehat on May 8, 2012 | 17 comments
29.Application Cache Is A Douchebag (alistapart.com)
90 points by mathias on May 8, 2012 | 61 comments
30.The Brittleness Of Type Hierarchies (codegrunt.co.uk)
88 points by singular on May 8, 2012 | 73 comments

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