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1.		Timeline of the far future (wikipedia.org)
		294 points by microtherion on May 6, 2012 \| 88 comments
2.		Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text (zdnet.com)
		240 points by Empro on May 6, 2012 \| 109 comments
3.		Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
		233 points by mkelley on May 6, 2012 \| 175 comments
4.		I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python? (veekun.com)
		230 points by jrheard on May 6, 2012 \| 186 comments
5.		A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity (sigpwned.com)
		215 points by signa11 on May 6, 2012 \| 111 comments
6.		Video Stabilization on YouTube (googleresearch.blogspot.in)
		196 points by Garbage on May 6, 2012 \| 48 comments
7.		3x faster linux boot with e4rat (sourceforge.net)
		190 points by jewel on May 6, 2012 \| 100 comments
8.		Touché by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things (newscientist.com)
		178 points by jcfrei on May 6, 2012 \| 49 comments
9.		Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity (whitequark.org)
		178 points by siasia on May 6, 2012 \| 49 comments
10.		Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder (resumonk.com)
		175 points by bharani_m on May 6, 2012 \| 86 comments
11.		Zynga's Going Down. (silencedgood.tumblr.com)
		175 points by dkrich on May 6, 2012 \| 107 comments
12.		Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? (thepowerbase.com)
		149 points by adito on May 6, 2012 \| 65 comments
13.		Ask PG: What successful startups has Y Combinator passed up on?
		140 points by michael_fine on May 6, 2012 \| 16 comments
14.		Kroes Throws in Towel on ACTA (wsj.com)
		131 points by jimlast on May 6, 2012 \| 29 comments
15.		Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers (marginalrevolution.com)
		120 points by mhb on May 6, 2012 \| 37 comments
16.		Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
		115 points by jcc80 on May 6, 2012 \| 67 comments
17.		Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy (reddit.com)
		115 points by DiabloD3 on May 6, 2012 \| 21 comments
18.		Why I will always love RSS (jefclaes.be)
		109 points by Nemmie on May 6, 2012 \| 27 comments
19.		Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powerhouse (daltoncaldwell.com)
		100 points by dalton on May 6, 2012 \| 49 comments
20.		Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He? (pandodaily.com)
		94 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2012 \| 84 comments
21.		Emscripten - LLVM (bitcode) to JavaScript Compiler (github.com/kripken)
		91 points by pooriaazimi on May 6, 2012 \| 2 comments
22.		Why was .NET called .NET? (dodgycoder.net)
		92 points by damian2000 on May 6, 2012 \| 72 comments
23.		4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo (mahdiyusuf.com)
		91 points by b14ck on May 6, 2012 \| 121 comments
24.		How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML and Lisp did not? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		82 points by chrisaycock on May 6, 2012 \| 52 comments
25.		Five Common Rails Mistakes (mikeperham.com)
		77 points by vamsee on May 6, 2012 \| 29 comments
26.		Realtime "Likes" displayed on retailer's clothing hangers (theverge.com)
		73 points by smoody on May 6, 2012 \| 28 comments
27.		Doing It Right, Not First (andrewdumont.me)
		67 points by andrewdumont on May 6, 2012 \| 18 comments
28.		The return of heritage fruits and vegetables (bbc.co.uk)
		63 points by gruseom on May 6, 2012 \| 44 comments
29.		American Lifespan By County (tobiasbuckell.com)
		63 points by astrieanna on May 6, 2012 \| 86 comments
30.		Traditional C "Hello World" working in NaCl (groups.google.com)
		59 points by ginsweater on May 6, 2012 \| 25 comments
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