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1.In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley (quora.com)
406 points by thinkcomp on May 11, 2011 | 208 comments
2.FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue (aclu.org)
395 points by trotsky on May 11, 2011 | 72 comments
3.Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS (palm.com)
294 points by unwiredben on May 11, 2011 | 166 comments
4.Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app (iflowreader.com)
281 points by mikecane on May 11, 2011 | 160 comments
5.Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL (chrome.google.com)
234 points by patrickaljord on May 11, 2011 | 83 comments
6.Google Storage Now Available To Developers (code.google.com)
221 points by ASUmusicMAN on May 11, 2011 | 60 comments
7.CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders (layerstyles.org)
180 points by daleharvey on May 11, 2011 | 35 comments
8.Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN (pintpay.com)
180 points by gpl1 on May 11, 2011 | 87 comments
9."The worst algorithm in the world?" (bosker.wordpress.com)
161 points by mccutchen on May 11, 2011 | 69 comments
10.After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commissioner becomes Comcast lobbyist (arstechnica.com)
155 points by kmfrk on May 11, 2011 | 69 comments
11.Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts (stackoverflow.com)
155 points by fogus on May 11, 2011 | 67 comments
12.The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see (biketek.com)
154 points by eykanal on May 11, 2011 | 95 comments
13.Why Google Does Not Own Skype (cnn.com)
151 points by vladd on May 11, 2011 | 91 comments
14.C to Go: Could Go replace C? (stanford.edu)
144 points by hanszeir on May 11, 2011 | 154 comments
15.How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated (acumenholdings.com)
145 points by joshclemence on May 11, 2011 | 25 comments
16.Google lobbies Nevada to allow driverless cars (nytimes.com)
133 points by nkassis on May 11, 2011 | 101 comments
17.Bootstrap Marketing: Ideas that don't suck (spencerfry.com)
122 points by bry on May 11, 2011 | 19 comments
18.Google Tasks API Released (code.google.com)
121 points by nikosdimopoulos on May 11, 2011 | 39 comments
19.Programming is… (mrclay.org)
116 points by Concours on May 11, 2011 | 23 comments
20.Bret Victor on working at Apple. (worrydream.com)
116 points by endergen on May 11, 2011 | 68 comments
21.Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months (calnewport.com)
114 points by da5e on May 11, 2011 | 49 comments
22.Ask HN: any of the HNers have kids & work from home?
112 points by Jem on May 11, 2011 | 97 comments

In the interest of correctness I should point out that the half a million fee is not a fee but a bond. The state does not take it but it is kept in a trust for people that may be injured by the particular money transmission business that gets a license.

Thus, if a money transmission business steals someone's money you can sue them and when you win you can take your money from the 500,000 bond so you are sure they will not run out on you.

I am not sure whether it is a good law (I have not done enough research to figure that out), but I just wanted to clarify. The quora post made it look like the state was just greedy and taking all the money for themselves.

24.It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL." (basho.com)
115 points by pharkmillups on May 11, 2011 | 64 comments
25.Google to Announce Chrome Laptops for Students - $20/Month (blogs.forbes.com)
99 points by Kylekramer on May 11, 2011 | 41 comments
26.BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance (techdirt.com)
97 points by grellas on May 11, 2011 | 43 comments
27.Angry Birds on Chrome (angrybirds.com)
96 points by gabaix on May 11, 2011 | 30 comments
28.Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk (alpha.gov.uk)
90 points by gorm on May 11, 2011 | 41 comments
29.How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly? (english.stackexchange.com)
86 points by m_myers on May 11, 2011 | 19 comments
30.How TheLadders.com scam works (corcodilos.com)
86 points by ecaron on May 11, 2011 | 31 comments

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