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1. Facebook acquires Instagram (facebook.com)
837 points by hunterowens on April 9, 2012 | 374 comments
2. Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83 (forbes.com/sites/davidthier)
314 points by hackermom on April 9, 2012 | 90 comments
3. Instagram is acquired by Facebook (blog.instagram.com)
293 points by lewispb on April 9, 2012 | 88 comments
4. All The Cheat Sheets An Up To Date Web Designer Needs: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery (designresourcebox.com)
248 points by kevinwdavid on April 9, 2012 | 26 comments
5. An Emacs conference (emacsconf.herokuapp.com)
234 points by nic-ferrier on April 9, 2012 | 44 comments
6. Why haven't we cured cancer yet? (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
231 points by vibrunazo on April 9, 2012 | 158 comments
7. Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids (mmoasteroids.com)
197 points by mayop100 on April 9, 2012 | 64 comments
8. The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars (highscalability.com)
190 points by avsaro on April 9, 2012 | 60 comments
9. EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" (wired.com)
169 points by drKarl on April 9, 2012 | 120 comments
10. YC Facelift: EXEC (kyrobeshay.com)
168 points by reason on April 9, 2012 | 87 comments
11. Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support (android-developers.blogspot.com)
165 points by joshbaptiste on April 9, 2012 | 38 comments
12. Caller ID Made Simple (rdegges.com)
152 points by nantes on April 9, 2012 | 64 comments
13. Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce (gigaom.com)
147 points by noinput on April 9, 2012 | 19 comments
14. Yesod 1.0 - a robust, friendly, high performance web framework for Haskell (yesodweb.com)
145 points by dons on April 9, 2012 | 109 comments
15. Meetings.io - Simple, online meetings (meetings.io)
139 points by dwynings on April 9, 2012 | 62 comments
16. A Man. A Woman. Just Friends? (nytimes.com)
134 points by orky56 on April 9, 2012 | 116 comments
17. Paths to $5M for a startup founder (gabrielweinberg.com)
126 points by jordhy on April 9, 2012 | 55 comments
18. Downloading a file regularly - how hard can it be? (adblockplus.org)
121 points by joeyespo on April 9, 2012 | 42 comments
19. Bartosz Milewski - The Downfall of Imperative Programming (fpcomplete.com)
119 points by dons on April 9, 2012 | 81 comments
20. Why Reddit switched to Python (2005) (reddit.com)
118 points by ryutlis on April 9, 2012 | 42 comments
21. “She doesn’t deserve to be alive” (asmartbear.com)
113 points by joeyespo on April 9, 2012 | 59 comments
22. Depth of field blur: the Swiss army knife that improved the framerate (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
111 points by exch on April 9, 2012 | 19 comments
23. Did Facebook panic? (cnn.com)
111 points by dave1619 on April 9, 2012 | 54 comments
24. What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...? (thebigquestions.com)
106 points by egorst on April 9, 2012 | 53 comments
25. Why I prefer scheme to Haskell (slidetocode.com)
103 points by steeleduncan on April 9, 2012 | 70 comments
26. First look: Qt 5 makes JavaScript a first-class citizen for app development (arstechnica.com)
103 points by evo_9 on April 9, 2012 | 23 comments
27. Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome and Opera (nparashuram.com)
101 points by zackattack on April 9, 2012 | 32 comments
28. TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language (pixelstech.net)
94 points by sonic0002 on April 9, 2012 | 65 comments
29. Fundraising: From $1,000 To $1,000,000 (techcrunch.com)
87 points by dwynings on April 9, 2012 | 35 comments
30. The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure (elangocheran.com)
86 points by fogus on April 9, 2012 | 14 comments

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