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1. Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. (kalzumeus.com)
273 points by wglb on April 19, 2012 | 107 comments
2. I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How (lifehacker.com)
258 points by cwan on April 19, 2012 | 174 comments
3. The War On RSS (vambenepe.com)
256 points by mgunes on April 19, 2012 | 124 comments
4. FBI seizes riseup.net server (riseup.net)
253 points by quadrahelix on April 19, 2012 | 106 comments
5. HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows (techdirt.com)
250 points by pavel_lishin on April 19, 2012 | 176 comments
6. The origins of the blink HTML element (montulli.org)
237 points by jacobr on April 19, 2012 | 66 comments
7. Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"? (cbsnews.com)
215 points by shawndumas on April 19, 2012 | 60 comments
8. "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link." (prgmr.com)
217 points by teach on April 19, 2012 | 92 comments
9. Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free (diagram.ly)
210 points by zerop on April 19, 2012 | 65 comments
10. AWS Marketplace (amazon.com)
201 points by psychotik on April 19, 2012 | 96 comments
11. Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads (filepicker.io)
193 points by tagx on April 19, 2012 | 105 comments
12. Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize (technologyacademy.fi)
188 points by tuukkah on April 19, 2012 | 39 comments
13. JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster, and with demos (princeton.edu)
174 points by jterrace on April 19, 2012 | 44 comments
14. Heap overflow bug in OpenSSL (grok.org.uk)
150 points by anthonyb on April 19, 2012 | 58 comments
15. Google's Python style guide (googlecode.com)
130 points by cr4zy on April 19, 2012 | 86 comments
16. Google's opening slides in the trial v. Oracle (groklaw.net)
125 points by experiment0 on April 19, 2012 | 86 comments
17. GIMP 2.8: Preview (nicubunu.blogspot.com)
122 points by vgnet on April 19, 2012 | 95 comments
18. Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL (code.google.com)
121 points by ansman on April 19, 2012 | 57 comments
19. We are in a Bubble (sfard.posterous.com)
115 points by saeidm on April 19, 2012 | 93 comments
20. Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development (circa-lang.org)
116 points by barrybe on April 19, 2012 | 32 comments
21. Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Data (joingrouper.com)
112 points by waxman on April 19, 2012 | 58 comments
22. Freak waves spotted from space (2004) (bbc.co.uk)
101 points by hardik on April 19, 2012 | 18 comments
23. Write logic, not mechanics (jeditoolkit.com)
98 points by vgnet on April 19, 2012 | 34 comments
24. You have 404,722 users? Here's what you can do. (makeitslick.tumblr.com)
97 points by hyacinthe on April 19, 2012 | 40 comments
25. ‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars (bgr.com)
92 points by zacharye on April 19, 2012 | 128 comments
26. Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites (laktek.com)
91 points by laktek on April 19, 2012 | 33 comments
27. I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well. (time.com)
85 points by technologizer on April 19, 2012 | 99 comments
28. Man protests airport security - naked (komonews.com)
84 points by pwg on April 19, 2012 | 32 comments
29. Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation (techcrunch.com)
84 points by ssclafani on April 19, 2012 | 77 comments
30. WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers (sitepoint.com)
83 points by leggetter on April 19, 2012 | 30 comments

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