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1.Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown (bbc.co.uk)
405 points by jgrahamc on May 31, 2012 | 110 comments
2.The girl with the ANSI tattoo (oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk)
367 points by ocirion on May 31, 2012 | 150 comments
3.Chromebox (google.com)
367 points by zoowar on May 31, 2012 | 297 comments
4.My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with. (nukaco.la)
309 points by mntmn on May 31, 2012 | 108 comments
5.Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games (humblebundle.com)
293 points by jeff18 on May 31, 2012 | 106 comments
6.Latency numbers every programmer should know (gist.github.com)
265 points by friggeri on May 31, 2012 | 134 comments
7.Google Blockly - a visual programming language (code.google.com)
258 points by antichaos on May 31, 2012 | 123 comments
8.Why I Left Google (spencertipping.com)
224 points by InfinityX0 on May 31, 2012 | 212 comments
9.Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming" (codemanship.co.uk)
205 points by vetler on May 31, 2012 | 196 comments
10.Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt. (torrentfreak.com)
191 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 | 90 comments
11.You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do (kalzumeus.com)
191 points by spatulon on May 31, 2012 | 78 comments
12.Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding (gigaom.com)
156 points by dko on May 31, 2012 | 64 comments
13.Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech: Make Great Things. Learn From Failure. (uarts.edu)
139 points by rblion on May 31, 2012 | 17 comments
14.Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
132 points by raldi on May 31, 2012 | 58 comments
15.LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements (documentfoundation.org)
130 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 | 74 comments
16.Light Table: 24 Hours to Get Another $7000 in the Kickstarter for Python Support (kickstarter.com)
122 points by gburt on May 31, 2012 | 54 comments
17.Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby (bbc.co.uk)
112 points by gps408 on May 31, 2012 | 95 comments
18.The politics of Wi-Fi names (opensignalmaps.com)
113 points by JamesCRR on May 31, 2012 | 63 comments
19.Workplace experiments: A month to yourself (37signals.com)
108 points by ksat on May 31, 2012 | 44 comments
20.25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com)
106 points by evo_9 on May 31, 2012 | 35 comments
21.Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad (hackerno.de)
107 points by nodemaker on May 31, 2012 | 68 comments
22.SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth (bbc.co.uk)
102 points by sparknlaunch on May 31, 2012 | 49 comments
23.Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One. (pointsandfigures.com)
101 points by robbiea on May 31, 2012 | 85 comments
24.Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved (kickstarter.com)
98 points by orionvmjoseph on May 31, 2012 | 69 comments
25.Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting (howtogeek.com)
96 points by plessthanpt05 on May 31, 2012 | 48 comments
26.Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast" (reddit.com)
96 points by xkcdfanboy on May 31, 2012 | 79 comments
27.The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system (yale.edu)
95 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2012 | 17 comments

I think you missed the point of the article. They were mockingly critiquing it, as the people behind the movie went above-and-beyond typical Hollywood technical gobbley-gook. The point is that it was accurate enough that they could critique it.
29. Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated (arstechnica.com)
91 points by alsothings on May 31, 2012 | 27 comments
30.Windows 8 Release Preview ready for download (windows.microsoft.com)
88 points by tnash on May 31, 2012 | 89 comments

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