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1. PHP: A fractal of bad design (veekun.com)
765 points by daeken on April 10, 2012 | 495 comments
2. Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation (dropbox.com)
367 points by lowe on April 10, 2012 | 126 comments
3. PHP Sucks But I Like It (ircmaxell.com)
326 points by ircmaxell on April 10, 2012 | 232 comments
4. Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support) (github.com/blog)
255 points by rlm on April 10, 2012 | 86 comments
5. Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times (thenextweb.com)
240 points by ryangilbert on April 10, 2012 | 191 comments
6. How to Learn Haskell (wustl.edu)
160 points by octopus on April 10, 2012 | 46 comments
7. PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter (codinghorror.com)
158 points by tony_le_montana on April 10, 2012 | 106 comments
8. CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out (coffeescript.org)
153 points by pros on April 10, 2012 | 51 comments
9. C Finally Gets A New Standard (drdobbs.com)
144 points by Tatyanazaxarova on April 10, 2012 | 70 comments
10. A huge listserv. Each day, only one random person can write to it. (thelistserve.com)
140 points by ifthenecho on April 10, 2012 | 83 comments
11. Discovering a Major Security Hole in Facebook's Android SDK (parse.com)
139 points by depoll on April 10, 2012 | 40 comments
12. Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough? (daspecster.github.com)
138 points by daspecster on April 10, 2012 | 110 comments
13. Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night (thenextweb.com)
136 points by ra5cal on April 10, 2012 | 82 comments
14. Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
131 points by VuongN on April 10, 2012 | 87 comments
15. Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation (lesswrong.com)
123 points by ivank on April 10, 2012 | 11 comments
16. A hacker creates his own version of Google Project Glass (thenextweb.com)
122 points by celebration on April 10, 2012 | 46 comments
17. The Crisis in American Walking (slate.com)
118 points by lysol on April 10, 2012 | 130 comments
18. Rust's Object System (smallcultfollowing.com)
106 points by justauser on April 10, 2012 | 24 comments
19. The Hack Day Manifesto (hackdaymanifesto.com)
103 points by danielknell on April 10, 2012 | 23 comments
20. Remote root hole in Samba (lwn.net)
98 points by wglb on April 10, 2012 | 15 comments
21. Tmux, for fun and profit (dockyard.com)
97 points by phsr on April 10, 2012 | 71 comments
22. Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative (arstechnica.com)
92 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 10, 2012 | 89 comments
23. NOAA: U.S. Records Warmest March; More than 15,000 Warm Temp Records Broken (commerce.gov)
91 points by molecule on April 10, 2012 | 54 comments
24. Big Startups vs Little Startups (ezliu.com)
90 points by ezl on April 10, 2012 | 17 comments
25. Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right (techcrunch.com)
87 points by olivercameron on April 10, 2012 | 38 comments
26. Tell Obama And Dodd: No Backroom Dealing, No New SOPA (demandprogress.org)
83 points by eduadecastro on April 10, 2012 | 6 comments
27. The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database (justinvincent.com)
81 points by jv22222 on April 10, 2012 | 24 comments
28. Dental X-Rays linked to Brain Tumors (washingtonpost.com)
79 points by ck2 on April 10, 2012 | 25 comments
29. Kubuntu Breaks With Canonical, Finds New Sponsor (h-online.com)
72 points by quanticle on April 10, 2012 | 17 comments
30. Google (as a company) is more popular than Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple (theatlantic.com)
71 points by raldi on April 10, 2012 | 50 comments

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