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1.Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme (jperla.com)
213 points by ljlolel on April 25, 2010 | 111 comments
2.Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers (pauldix.net)
176 points by ropiku on April 25, 2010 | 80 comments
3.What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod? (kyleconroy.com)
161 points by Derferman on April 25, 2010 | 85 comments
4.How to permanently delete Facebook account (wikihow.com)
134 points by sushi on April 25, 2010 | 56 comments
5.Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking (timesonline.co.uk)
130 points by chaostheory on April 25, 2010 | 97 comments
6.The Facebook F8 Story No one is writing: Nothing works. (lianza.org)
129 points by tlianza on April 25, 2010 | 23 comments
7.Ask HN: Are you an information addict?
121 points by ghotli on April 25, 2010 | 59 comments
8.Three.js: Javascript 3D engine (github.com/mrdoob)
118 points by mcantelon on April 25, 2010 | 17 comments
9.This is what people you know like on the Internet right now (likebutton.me)
105 points by dwynings on April 25, 2010 | 37 comments
10. x264 project announces first open source Blu-ray encoder (multimedia.cx)
99 points by DarkShikari on April 25, 2010 | 17 comments
11.Android 2.2 (Froyo) features (zdnet.com)
91 points by mberube on April 25, 2010 | 56 comments
12.Slides and notes from my three hour Redis tutorial (simonwillison.net)
87 points by simonw on April 25, 2010 | 14 comments
13.How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (3quarksdaily.com)
83 points by jaybol on April 25, 2010 | 15 comments

Obviously this guy doesn't understand what a ponzi scheme is. Perhaps if facebook took some of the money from new ad buys to purchase goods from slightly older ads so that they thought they were more successful a case could be made for it being a ponzi scheme -- this is in no way one.

If in fact they are selling a defective or useless product then they are in the lemon business -- a card dealership that sells crappy cars will stay in business until everyone realizes they suck.

Anyway, I've never purchased ads on facebook so this in no way relates to that; however, when you link to the definition of a word in your first sentence -- by god, use it correctly.

15.VMKit: JVM and .Net runtimes for LLVM (llvm.org)
71 points by prog on April 25, 2010 | 14 comments

I've been asked for loyalty from companies many more times than I've ever been shown any. It's pretty rare that a company really sticks by their employees.

For the younger generations, after watching their parents work 20+ years at the same organization and receive a cheap watch, they have no illusions about who will be providing the loyalty and who will be receiving it.

17.Why I'm Becomming a JavaScript Convert (benjamincoe.com)
69 points by 3pt14159 on April 25, 2010 | 37 comments

Salary is priced by the market, and that requires regular testing. Saying you don't want to hire regular job-changers is saying you don't want a functioning market. That, of course, is just what one would expect from companies who don't want to pay people what they are worth. Talk of 'loyalty' is effectively propaganda.
19.104 year old video of San Francisco (altgate.com)
66 points by fnazeeri on April 25, 2010 | 27 comments
20.Don’t believe the hype on GM’s loan repayment (edmondsun.com)
63 points by dwwoelfel on April 25, 2010 | 24 comments
21.Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon (timesonline.co.uk)
62 points by jaybol on April 25, 2010 | 37 comments
22.Matchure: pattern matching library for Clojure (atomicobject.com)
58 points by liebke on April 25, 2010
23.A physicist argues that information is at the root of everything (economist.com)
57 points by michael_dorfman on April 25, 2010 | 38 comments
24.Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows (windowfarms.org)
57 points by boucher on April 25, 2010 | 3 comments
25.WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars (wired.com)
57 points by atestu on April 25, 2010 | 19 comments
26.Simple, reliable 2.5D photography (coredump.cx)
55 points by eplanit on April 25, 2010 | 3 comments

It would be nice if you could change your vote like you can on Reddit. The arrows are quite close to each other and I've done the same thing several times. It's especially tricky on a touchscreen device.
28.Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too Dangerous (timesonline.co.uk)
52 points by Alex3917 on April 25, 2010 | 41 comments
29.Ask HN: I accidentally downvoted a good comment. What now?
51 points by natch on April 25, 2010 | 45 comments
30.Writing correct code, part 1: whatever happened to invariants? (reprog.wordpress.com)
49 points by MikeTaylor on April 25, 2010 | 10 comments

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