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1.		At least now we know why Color really got that funding (daringfireball.net)
		403 points by ChrisArchitect on March 25, 2011 \| 155 comments
2.		Facebook designers' novel approach to the usual name tag problems (fontsinuse.com)
		249 points by toni on March 25, 2011 \| 21 comments
3.		What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots (slacy.com)
		212 points by smlacy on March 25, 2011 \| 76 comments
4.		Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service (readwriteweb.com)
		207 points by rwwmike on March 25, 2011 \| 90 comments
		Yes, I can touch type using all 10 fingers.
		188 points \| parent
		That's a great idea - please can we have it?
		187 points \| parent
7.		Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac (applegrad.com)
		184 points by taylorbuley on March 25, 2011 \| 98 comments
8.		CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates (90percentofeverything.com)
		185 points by harrybr on March 25, 2011 \| 115 comments
9.		Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? (highscalability.com)
		177 points by dolinsky on March 25, 2011 \| 195 comments
10.		Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries (eff.org)
		179 points by there on March 25, 2011 \| 43 comments
		main site news.ycombinator.com
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12.		How I got sued by Facebook (2010) (petewarden.typepad.com)
		175 points by helwr on March 25, 2011 \| 37 comments
13.		My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer (kerebus.com)
		171 points by wallflower on March 25, 2011 \| 71 comments
14.		Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in functional programming (kshetri.com)
		169 points by fogus on March 25, 2011 \| 14 comments
		flyt on March 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: At least now we know why Color really got that fun... Don't worry, if Apple acquires them (like they did their last company, Lala) then Gruber will suddenly realize how revolutionary the idea is.
		Hmm.
		145 points \| parent
17.		Why O'Reilly Media doesn't use DRM (forbes.com)
		148 points by rnicholson on March 25, 2011 \| 49 comments
18.		Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb (arstechnica.com)
		145 points by gamble on March 25, 2011 \| 115 comments
		Commenting
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20.		Bullet-proof Node.js coding (laurenzo.org)
		141 points by ideamonk on March 25, 2011 \| 28 comments
21.		A Behind the Scenes Look at Y Combinator's Demo Day (earbitscom.posterous.com)
		127 points by earbitscom on March 25, 2011 \| 5 comments
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23.		Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before (mostlymaths.net)
		118 points by gnosis on March 25, 2011 \| 26 comments
		dandelany on March 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? ".Net programmers are largely Enterprise programmers whom are not constitutionally constructed to create large scalable websites at a startup pace." This is such BS, I can't even read it without physically cringing. I work for a ~400-person business that stands up .NET websites at breakneck speed, and we do it well. People who blame their problems on technical infrastructure decisions almost ALWAYS do so because it's easier than addressing the true underlying problems. "The biggest problem was they didn't allow the developers to have staging or testing servers -- they deployed on the production servers on the first go-around... And all this with no change management or control. No versioning either." Oh wow. Wow. I hereby revoke my previous statement. These are some God-awful infrastructure decisions. Version control and a staging server are the most basic necessities for a scalable dev project. I even set them up when I'm working on a personal project, alone.
25.		Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework (popcornjs.org)
		111 points by creativityhurts on March 25, 2011 \| 33 comments
		Yes and I plan to stay on.
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27.		Show HN: Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents. (notepag.es)
		100 points by vmind on March 25, 2011 \| 20 comments
28.		The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch (bryce.vc)
		98 points by jkopelman on March 25, 2011 \| 30 comments
29.		So you want to do the SICP... (uponmyshoulder.com)
		100 points by pluies on March 25, 2011 \| 33 comments
30.		CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers (expensify.com)
		98 points by ayu on March 25, 2011 \| 75 comments
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