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1. Valve Employee Handbook (flamehaus.com)
569 points by v21 on April 21, 2012 | 160 comments
2. Meteor is now MIT licensed (meteor.com)
389 points by nim on April 21, 2012 | 121 comments
3. This Is 2016 Not 2012 (danshipper.com)
364 points by dshipper on April 21, 2012 | 231 comments
4. How to cope with the Gmail redesign (jasoncrawford.org)
273 points by jasoncrawford on April 21, 2012 | 167 comments
5. Hacker News Redesign (taiyab.co.uk)
244 points by taiyab on April 21, 2012 | 151 comments
6. Let’s Build a Future Without Cars (pandodaily.com)
167 points by protomyth on April 21, 2012 | 135 comments
7. The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death (wired.com)
115 points by peteforde on April 21, 2012 | 17 comments
8. Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages (adampetersen.se)
113 points by ranit8 on April 21, 2012 | 30 comments
9. Oracle v. Google judge to decide whether APIs are Copyrightable, not the jury (groklaw.net)
112 points by vgnet on April 21, 2012 | 63 comments
10. If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula... (amherst.edu)
110 points by evoxed on April 21, 2012 | 55 comments
11. MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris (bostinno.com)
110 points by emarion on April 21, 2012 | 36 comments
12. Octogit - Giving git more tentacles (myusuf3.github.com)
113 points by googletron on April 21, 2012 | 35 comments
13. Show HN: Bridge, a cross-language RPC messaging system (flotype.com)
105 points by dshankar on April 21, 2012 | 21 comments
14. Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a former Google employee (luaos.net)
104 points by tete on April 21, 2012 | 44 comments
15. Path-finding simulator for grid based games (qiao.github.com)
95 points by adito on April 21, 2012 | 21 comments
16. AudioGO use DMCA to demand takedown of a 404 link (adactio.com)
87 points by adactio on April 21, 2012 | 8 comments
17. How to get a stolen domain back?
83 points by throwawayhelp on April 21, 2012 | 36 comments
18. The Largest Known Prime by Year: A Brief History (utm.edu)
71 points by vgnet on April 21, 2012 | 21 comments
19. Show HN: Tasskr. Re-written for the 5th time. (tasskr.com)
61 points by dan335 on April 21, 2012 | 36 comments
20. GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever (itworld.com)
61 points by mkup on April 21, 2012 | 108 comments
21. Migrating from EC2 to Rackspace (conigliaro.org)
56 points by anthony_barker on April 21, 2012 | 33 comments
22. Why are new Samsung and HP computer parts being dumped in Guiyu? (shanghaiscrap.com)
51 points by anonymous_eng on April 21, 2012 | 31 comments
23. Wikipedia User Makes 1 Million Edits (mashable.com)
49 points by kurtable on April 21, 2012 | 24 comments
24. Use and Abuse of Garbage Collected Languages (dadgum.com)
48 points by prajjwal on April 21, 2012 | 43 comments
25. IPad Text Editors, Reviewed (taoofmac.com)
46 points by ditados on April 21, 2012 | 23 comments
26. Tetris Hack on MIT's Green Building (hacks.mit.edu)
45 points by ilamont on April 21, 2012 | 9 comments
27. NoPlainText: One time, browser-encrypted messaging (noplaintext.com)
44 points by zotz on April 21, 2012 | 38 comments
28. Intro to Unix for Web Developers (extropia.com)
43 points by QuarkSpark on April 21, 2012 | 2 comments
29. Chumby Industries shuts down (theverge.com)
42 points by joe_bleau on April 21, 2012 | 19 comments
30. The Death of the Level Designer: Procedural Content Generation in Games (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
41 points by vgnet on April 21, 2012 | 20 comments

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