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1. Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment (browserquest.mozilla.org)
468 points by guigui on March 27, 2012 | 106 comments
2. A Pinterest spammer tells all (dailydot.com)
348 points by taylorbuley on March 27, 2012 | 115 comments
3. Turning down Zynga: Why I opted out of the $210M Omgpop buy (gamasutra.com)
340 points by newobj on March 27, 2012 | 113 comments
4. Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you (woodcutmaps.com)
307 points by aaronharnly on March 27, 2012 | 81 comments
5. How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls (gun.io)
306 points by Mizza on March 27, 2012 | 20 comments
6. The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades (wilshipley.com)
232 points by mynameisraj on March 27, 2012 | 122 comments
7. Red Hat becomes the first open source company to amass a billion dollars (zenoss.com)
227 points by aritraghosh007 on March 27, 2012 | 48 comments
8. Coding Horror: The End of Pagination (codinghorror.com)
221 points by duaneb on March 27, 2012 | 118 comments
9. 10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the £10 Note (theatlantic.com)
209 points by NoBorders on March 27, 2012 | 36 comments
10. One Drug to Shrink All Tumors (news.sciencemag.org)
187 points by ph0rque on March 27, 2012 | 51 comments
11. ZeroRPC (github.com/dotcloud)
182 points by m0th87 on March 27, 2012 | 32 comments
12. No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more. (codinghorror.com)
169 points by macco on March 27, 2012 | 58 comments
13. The Psychology of Tackling Hard Problems (davidvaldman.com)
155 points by dmvaldman on March 27, 2012 | 51 comments
14. The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of (nytimes.com)
156 points by emmanuelory on March 27, 2012 | 39 comments
15. Attention to Detail (martinsnyder.net)
153 points by jbellis on March 27, 2012 | 30 comments
16. IOS design: a case study (slideshare.net)
153 points by Wolfr on March 27, 2012 | 21 comments
17. Bayes nets by example with Python and Khan Academy data (derandomized.com)
139 points by kohlmeier on March 27, 2012 | 9 comments
18. Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers (infosecinstitute.com)
132 points by voodoochilo on March 27, 2012 | 59 comments
19. Subsecond Offset Visualizations: Unusual patterns from cloud computing (dtrace.org)
102 points by brendangregg on March 27, 2012 | 5 comments
20. BrowserQuest– a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment (hacks.mozilla.org)
95 points by paulrouget on March 27, 2012 | 29 comments
21. Basho Unveils New Cloud Storage Software: Riak CS (basho.com)
89 points by tsantero on March 27, 2012 | 27 comments
22. Bill Gates: We need crazy energy entrepreneurs (gigaom.com)
88 points by suprgeek on March 27, 2012 | 48 comments
23. 86 years old lens hacked onto 5DMKII (todaystomorrow.tumblr.com)
86 points by rainboiboi on March 27, 2012 | 19 comments
24. Google Drive: Finally coming this April (gigaom.com)
82 points by taylorbuley on March 27, 2012 | 64 comments
25. Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day (play-fame.com)
81 points by dclaysmith on March 27, 2012 | 50 comments
26. Even Non-Techies Aim to Learn the Internet’s Language (nytimes.com)
77 points by branola on March 27, 2012 | 25 comments
27. Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second (cnn.com)
76 points by processing on March 27, 2012 | 47 comments
28. The Histogram as the Image (ironicsans.com)
74 points by tambourine_man on March 27, 2012 | 3 comments
29. Rookies in the Bike Shed (heinemeierhansson.com)
74 points by jashkenas on March 27, 2012 | 41 comments
30. Kevin Korb's Jokes: Care and Feeding of Your Hacker (sanitarium.net)
71 points by jacquesm on March 27, 2012 | 16 comments

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