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1. Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"? (thepiratebay.com)
476 points by flux_w42 on March 18, 2012 | 141 comments
2. Writing and Speaking (paulgraham.com)
415 points by tlammens on March 18, 2012 | 229 comments
3. About those vector icons (pushing-pixels.org)
284 points by aaronpk on March 18, 2012 | 40 comments
4. Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail (rollingstone.com)
243 points by soundsop on March 18, 2012 | 90 comments
5. Have a .com web address? Know the legal risks (nbr.co.nz)
203 points by pier0 on March 18, 2012 | 75 comments
6. Video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch (io9.com)
185 points by daegloe on March 18, 2012 | 60 comments
7. Megaupload Seizure Order “Null and Void” Says High Court (torrentfreak.com)
171 points by llambda on March 18, 2012 | 32 comments
8. Are jobs obsolete? (cnn.com)
160 points by mcantelon on March 18, 2012 | 137 comments
9. Help Reddit build a recommender (reddit.com)
153 points by ahalan on March 18, 2012 | 41 comments
10. UEFI : More ways for firmware to screw you (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
140 points by emillon on March 18, 2012 | 20 comments
11. Best Ultrabook for Linux?
133 points by chashaz on March 18, 2012 | 172 comments
12. Lets Talk About Something Diabolical: A PyPy Intro (David Beazley PyCon keynote) (pyvideo.org)
116 points by ctkrohn on March 18, 2012 | 12 comments
13. Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access (singularityhub.com)
113 points by olalonde on March 18, 2012 | 22 comments
14. Why software sucks? (scottberkun.com)
113 points by jjude on March 18, 2012 | 81 comments
15. Why Systems Programmers Still Use C (2006) (bitc-lang.org)
107 points by willvarfar on March 18, 2012 | 63 comments
16. The Benefits of Bilingualism (nytimes.com)
106 points by ColinWright on March 18, 2012 | 44 comments
17. The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of iPads on planes. (nytimes.com)
99 points by nickbilton on March 18, 2012 | 78 comments
18. Getting 100x better search performance on Riak (clipboard.com)
95 points by gwf on March 18, 2012 | 17 comments
19. Why This Is What Samsung Is Calling Ice Cream Sandwich (daringfireball.net)
95 points by shawndumas on March 18, 2012 | 58 comments
20. Reinventing coding for the iPad : edit the parse tree (slidetocode.com)
92 points by steeleduncan on March 18, 2012 | 21 comments
21. Build an IDE with tmux and vim (alexyoung.org)
91 points by ahalan on March 18, 2012 | 44 comments
22. Ask HN: do founders get a salary after raising angel round?
88 points by sixQuarks on March 18, 2012 | 51 comments
23. Why Speakers Earn 30k An Hour (oreilly.com)
86 points by InfinityX0 on March 18, 2012 | 19 comments
24. Germany's unheralded computer inventor (post-gazette.com)
80 points by edw519 on March 18, 2012 | 22 comments
25. RDP and the Critical Server Attack Surface (dankaminsky.com)
77 points by dfc on March 18, 2012 | 15 comments
26. The Banks Win, Again (nytimes.com)
76 points by cs702 on March 18, 2012 | 25 comments
27. In Sweden, cash is king no more (yahoo.com)
72 points by mebe on March 18, 2012 | 82 comments
28. Show HN: Chat with HN users while you visit HN (rabblr.com)
72 points by brildum on March 18, 2012 | 43 comments
29. Police court order Dotwrong (nzherald.co.nz)
71 points by bane on March 18, 2012 | 14 comments
30. Apple Conference Call (apple.com)
70 points by hawke on March 18, 2012 | 85 comments

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