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Top of Month - Jun 2011
  1. Ooops.
    (16 Jun 2011 | 1123 points | Comments)

  2. Enough Is Enough
    (1 Jun 2011 | 1032 points | Comments)

  3. GitHub for Mac
    (22 Jun 2011 | 680 points | Comments)

  4. I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
    (20 Jun 2011 | 664 points | Comments)

  5. Advice From An Old Programmer
    (16 Jun 2011 | 649 points | Comments)

  6. Kind of Screwed
    (23 Jun 2011 | 611 points | Comments)

  7. Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78
    (30 Jun 2011 | 588 points | Comments)

  8. My Email Canary
    (9 Jun 2011 | 581 points | Comments)

  9. The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
    (23 Jun 2011 | 581 points | Comments)

  10. Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon
    (14 Jun 2011 | 562 points | Comments)

  11. DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
    (20 Jun 2011 | 548 points | Comments)

  12. Testing Benford's Law
    (27 Jun 2011 | 546 points | Comments)

  13. Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
    (28 Jun 2011 | 526 points | Comments)

  14. "My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."
    (8 Jun 2011 | 513 points | Comments)

  15. Y Combinator Numbers
    (1 Jun 2011 | 506 points | Comments)

  16. TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
    (24 Jun 2011 | 488 points | Comments)

  17. My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
    (22 Jun 2011 | 476 points | Comments)

  18. Why I've built an alternative to Github
    (20 Jun 2011 | 473 points | Comments)

  19. How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design
    (24 Jun 2011 | 455 points | Comments)

  20. Skype protocol reverse engineered, source available
    (2 Jun 2011 | 451 points | Comments)

  21. A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
    (10 Jun 2011 | 435 points | Comments)

  22. Myths About Introverts
    (15 Jun 2011 | 429 points | Comments)

  23. Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
    (8 Jun 2011 | 427 points | Comments)

  24. Team Fortress 2 now free forever
    (24 Jun 2011 | 423 points | Comments)

  25. Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...
    (23 Jun 2011 | 418 points | Comments)

  26. JavaScript mp3 decoder allows Firefox to play mp3 without flash
    (17 Jun 2011 | 409 points | Comments)

  27. Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
    (23 Jun 2011 | 400 points | Comments)

  28. An eruption from the Sun that happened today
    (7 Jun 2011 | 396 points | Comments)

  29. Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
    (13 Jun 2011 | 392 points | Comments)

  30. Hacked Gmail Account
    (26 Jun 2011 | 389 points | Comments)

  31. HTML Email Boilerplate
    (7 Jun 2011 | 387 points | Comments)

  32. Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
    (22 Jun 2011 | 385 points | Comments)

  33. Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships
    (30 Jun 2011 | 380 points | Comments)

  34. Sleep Sort
    (15 Jun 2011 | 376 points | Comments)

  35. It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
    (13 Jun 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

  36. AOL Exposed: A Former AOL Employee Speaks Out
    (17 Jun 2011 | 374 points | Comments)

  37. Firefox 5 is now officially released
    (21 Jun 2011 | 373 points | Comments)

  38. Try to digest the Groupon story
    (3 Jun 2011 | 372 points | Comments)

  39. Previewing Windows 8 (Video)
    (1 Jun 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

  40. Please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder.
    (30 Jun 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

  41. How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL
    (15 Jun 2011 | 360 points | Comments)

  42. Designing GitHub for Mac
    (28 Jun 2011 | 360 points | Comments)

  43. Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
    (19 Jun 2011 | 355 points | Comments)

  44. How Perceptual Hashes Work
    (3 Jun 2011 | 354 points | Comments)

  45. What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?
    (14 Jun 2011 | 353 points | Comments)

  46. Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables
    (10 Jun 2011 | 350 points | Comments)

  47. Reject the PROTECT IP Act
    (7 Jun 2011 | 349 points | Comments)

  48. Hacker News Search
    (4 Jun 2011 | 344 points | Comments)

  49. Skype options turn out to be worthless
    (24 Jun 2011 | 343 points | Comments)

  50. How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
    (3 Jun 2011 | 339 points | Comments)

  51. Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it
    (4 Jun 2011 | 330 points | Comments)

  52. LulzSec: Why we do what we do
    (17 Jun 2011 | 329 points | Comments)

  53. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
    (1 Jun 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

  54. Sal Khan has started videos about Python
    (29 Jun 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

  55. Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
    (14 Jun 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

  56. All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad
    (12 Jun 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

  57. Fish don't know they're in water
    (20 Jun 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

  58. The Dangerous Mr. Khan
    (8 Jun 2011 | 311 points | Comments)

  59. Dotjs — hack the web
    (29 Jun 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

  60. Don't be rich, Live rich
    (26 Jun 2011 | 307 points | Comments)

  61. New Google Web Fonts Interface
    (28 Jun 2011 | 307 points | Comments)

  62. SearchYC is shutting down
    (27 Jun 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

  63. SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised
    (2 Jun 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

  64. Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
    (10 Jun 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

  65. Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)
    (27 Jun 2011 | 298 points | Comments)

  66. ResizeMyBrowser
    (14 Jun 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

  67. Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good
    (28 Jun 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

  68. Git Tutorials for Beginners
    (8 Jun 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

  69. ORM is an anti-pattern
    (15 Jun 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

  70. Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive
    (14 Jun 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

  71. Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday
    (9 Jun 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

  72. Google+ Demo
    (28 Jun 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

  73. Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.
    (12 Jun 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

  74. 500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash
    (19 Jun 2011 | 276 points | Comments)

  75. Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives
    (17 Jun 2011 | 272 points | Comments)

  76. AWS drops bandwidth pricing
    (30 Jun 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

  77. The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop
    (11 Jun 2011 | 270 points | Comments)

  78. New security issue at Dropbox
    (20 Jun 2011 | 270 points | Comments)

  79. How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack
    (28 Jun 2011 | 270 points | Comments)

  80. ASCII diagram creator
    (14 Jun 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

  81. Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting
    (27 Jun 2011 | 267 points | Comments)

  82. The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D
    (29 Jun 2011 | 266 points | Comments)

  83. Pinboard.in service limited - FBI raided hosting company and pulled equpiment
    (21 Jun 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

  84. IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than flash
    (30 Jun 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

  85. Alternative jQuery Documentation
    (2 Jun 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

  86. Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell
    (17 Jun 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

  87. Advanced Computer Science Courses
    (9 Jun 2011 | 256 points | Comments)

  88. GitHub: Block the Bullies
    (1 Jun 2011 | 255 points | Comments)

  89. Instant Company
    (16 Jun 2011 | 255 points | Comments)

  90. Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
    (28 Jun 2011 | 254 points | Comments)

  91. Evernote Peek, The First iPad Smart Cover App
    (8 Jun 2011 | 253 points | Comments)

  92. How (not) to sell your iOS app
    (28 Jun 2011 | 253 points | Comments)

  93. Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
    (24 Jun 2011 | 251 points | Comments)

  94. Facebook autobot going berserker
    (24 Jun 2011 | 250 points | Comments)

  95. Apple copies rejected app
    (9 Jun 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

  96. How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
    (10 Jun 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

  97. Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options
    (6 Jun 2011 | 248 points | Comments)

  98. Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’
    (7 Jun 2011 | 246 points | Comments)

  99. MIT professor's hack to recruit students
    (19 Jun 2011 | 246 points | Comments)

  100. Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial
    (7 Jun 2011 | 245 points | Comments)