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1. A Year with MongoDB (kiip.me)
362 points by mitchellh on April 13, 2012 | 141 comments
2. Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing (valvesoftware.com)
288 points by psykotic on April 13, 2012 | 86 comments
3. Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s (masswerk.at)
281 points by xearl on April 13, 2012 | 77 comments
4. Fire Me, I Beg You (robbieabed.com)
234 points by robbiea on April 13, 2012 | 65 comments
5. Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript (riversoflambdas.tumblr.com)
203 points by Wilya on April 13, 2012 | 197 comments
6. A Guided Tour through the Fundamentals of Git (gitimmersion.com)
196 points by benackles on April 13, 2012 | 21 comments
7. Demonstrating responsive design to clients. (jamus.co.uk)
188 points by jnye131 on April 13, 2012 | 40 comments
8. Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better) - A talk by Rob Pike (googlecode.com)
174 points by luriel on April 13, 2012 | 54 comments
9. Life's too short to write shitty software (adzerk.com)
168 points by snkahn on April 13, 2012 | 99 comments
10. Facebook supports horrible proposed Internet bill CISPA (boingboing.net)
163 points by voodoochilo on April 13, 2012 | 57 comments
11. The Most Dangerous Gamer (theatlantic.com)
161 points by TDL on April 13, 2012 | 65 comments
12. Coding is priority number five (bitquabit.com)
152 points by tghw on April 13, 2012 | 32 comments
13. YC Facelift: Flutter (kyrobeshay.com)
148 points by micrypt on April 13, 2012 | 53 comments
14. Meteor meets NoGPL (lassus.se)
132 points by mapleoin on April 13, 2012 | 115 comments
15. I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language (dovyski.com)
129 points by dovyski on April 13, 2012 | 63 comments
16. Why Airport Security Is Broken—And How to Fix It (former head TSA) (wsj.com)
119 points by jedwhite on April 13, 2012 | 88 comments
17. On Anonymity (amandapeyton.com)
120 points by inmygarage on April 13, 2012 | 51 comments
18. The One Product That Makes Apple a Trillion-Dollar Company Overnight (launch.co)
106 points by petesoder on April 13, 2012 | 70 comments
19. Evolution of a Web Developer: From PHP Newbie To Python Ninja (hubspot.com)
99 points by GNelsonJ on April 13, 2012 | 27 comments
20. PG on finding cofounders and being a strong team (garrysub.posterous.com)
94 points by dirtyaura on April 13, 2012 | 17 comments
21. Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs (arstechnica.com)
90 points by evo_9 on April 13, 2012 | 23 comments
22. Java IAQ (norvig.com)
75 points by Mitt on April 13, 2012 | 31 comments
23. US slams Australia’s on-shore cloud fixation (delimiter.com.au)
73 points by mindstab on April 13, 2012 | 50 comments
24. Apple CEO Tim Cook Spotted at video game designer Valve headquarters (appleinsider.com)
74 points by kessler on April 13, 2012 | 63 comments
25. Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test (wired.com)
71 points by leejw00t354 on April 13, 2012 | 79 comments
26. On the making of a girl nerd (mathbabe.org)
64 points by cs702 on April 13, 2012 | 71 comments
27. It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) (cryptographyengineering.com)
64 points by wglb on April 13, 2012 | 12 comments
28. MPAA Just Won't Quit: Argues Links & Embeds Are Infringing (techdirt.com)
63 points by daegloe on April 13, 2012 | 22 comments
29. Show HN: Word Wars- HTML5 real time word game (clay.io)
61 points by farhadabas on April 13, 2012 | 40 comments
30. QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code (hackaday.com)
56 points by voodoochilo on April 13, 2012 | 9 comments

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