| 1. | | Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested (kickstarter.com) |
| 222 points by JayNeely on May 11, 2010 | 132 comments |
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| 2. | | Life is Beautiful (zeldman.com) |
| 177 points by ihodes on May 11, 2010 | 33 comments |
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| 3. | | The technology behind the new Google Docs editor (googledocs.blogspot.com) |
| 175 points by yanw on May 11, 2010 | 39 comments |
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| 4. | | Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure (googlecode.blogspot.com) |
| 173 points by mattyb on May 11, 2010 | 85 comments |
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| 5. | | Wolfire open sourcing Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture (wolfire.com) |
| 130 points by mcantelon on May 11, 2010 | 22 comments |
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| 6. | | How did Facebook guess my email address? (reddit.com) |
| 126 points by iamdave on May 11, 2010 | 58 comments |
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| 7. | | Why Snakebites Are About to Get a Lot More Deadly (popularmechanics.com) |
| 124 points by cwan on May 11, 2010 | 129 comments |
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| 8. | | Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas (0xfe.blogspot.com) |
| 107 points by brolewis on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments |
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| 9. | | Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly (conversionvoodoo.com) |
| 85 points by aresant on May 11, 2010 | 43 comments |
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| 10. | | Iron Man 2's Secret Sauce: 3-D Printing (fastcompany.com) |
| 83 points by binarymax on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments |
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| 11. | | Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S. (sfgate.com) |
| 71 points by jacquesm on May 11, 2010 | 53 comments |
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| 12. | | For the Win, Cory Doctrow's new novel about economics and gaming blackmarket (craphound.com) |
| 70 points by rick_2047 on May 11, 2010 | 12 comments |
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| 13. | | Reddit's May 2010 "State of the Servers" report (reddit.com) |
| 69 points by pavs on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments |
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| 14. | | SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual (sr-71.org) |
| 68 points by ibejoeb on May 11, 2010 | 23 comments |
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| 15. | | Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation (braintreepaymentsolutions.com) |
| 68 points by browser411 on May 11, 2010 | 51 comments |
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| 16. | | Beautiful Image Hover Effect Using Only Webkit CSS (No JS) (nikesh.me) |
| 65 points by theone on May 11, 2010 | 48 comments |
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| 17. | | Anand retains world chess championship title (chessvibes.com) |
| 63 points by juanefren on May 11, 2010 | 26 comments |
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| 18. | | Data, data everywhere (economist.com) |
| 63 points by helwr on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments |
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| 19. | | Lugaru Goes Open-Source (wolfire.com) |
| 62 points by kevinh on May 11, 2010 | 8 comments |
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| 21. | | Etherpad Foundation (etherpad.org) |
| 60 points by pixelcort on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments |
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| 22. | | New HTML5 parser in Firefox 4 – SVG in HTML, faster parsing, and more (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 58 points by mbrubeck on May 11, 2010 | 6 comments |
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| 23. | | Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk (techcrunch.com) |
| 57 points by bjonathan on May 11, 2010 | 27 comments |
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| 25. | | No upvotes? No problem. (diveintothepool.wordpress.com) |
| 53 points by sosuke on May 11, 2010 | 30 comments |
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| 26. | | The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek (reason.com) |
| 52 points by limist on May 11, 2010 | 36 comments |
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| 27. | | MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server) (snailinaturtleneck.com) |
| 53 points by dmytton on May 11, 2010 | 17 comments |
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| 28. | | Design Guidelines: Why doesn't every site/company have this? (stanford.edu) |
| 49 points by NIL8 on May 11, 2010 | 29 comments |
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| 29. | | The High Frequency Trading Scam (2009) (seekingalpha.com) |
| 48 points by aliston on May 11, 2010 | 37 comments |
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| 30. | | Square mobile payment system goes live on iPhone, iPad, and Android this week (engadget.com) |
| 46 points by there on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments |
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Facebook's real problem is not user backlash from their privacy shortcomings, but the future of social networking in general. Some visionary will beat them to the future while they are busy milking the status quo.
This is not visionary, sorry.