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1.		Poll: How long have you been programming?
		1007 points by michaelkscott on April 2, 2012 \| 316 comments
2.		Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages (github.com/blog)
		553 points by tanoku on April 2, 2012 \| 46 comments
3.		Poll: What is your primary operating system
		519 points by kamechan on April 2, 2012 \| 455 comments
4.		The Future of Python HTTP (kennethreitz.com)
		336 points by abraham on April 2, 2012 \| 53 comments
5.		The Photographic Science of Detecting Fake Lottery Tickets (hackerfactor.com)
		254 points by ecaron on April 2, 2012 \| 49 comments
6.		"Linux switch saved city millions and reduced user complaints" (computerworlduk.com)
		209 points by EdwardQ on April 2, 2012 \| 135 comments
7.		Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?
		185 points by ekpyrotic on April 2, 2012 \| 103 comments
8.		Subtle Sans: A Free (Pay What You Want) Font (subtlepatterns.com)
		159 points by chrisguitarguy on April 2, 2012 \| 43 comments
9.		Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners (physorg.com)
		143 points by 6ren on April 2, 2012 \| 88 comments
10.		Selling a startup at the age of 15 (dkume.com)
		139 points by dkulchenko on April 2, 2012 \| 45 comments
11.		25 years of OS/2: the legendary failure that refuses to die. (time.com)
		136 points by technologizer on April 2, 2012 \| 61 comments
12.		The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry (arstechnica.com)
		130 points by zoowar on April 2, 2012 \| 99 comments
13.		Our Culture of Exclusion (or, why I'm not at JSConf this year) (ryanfunduk.com)
		130 points by thenduks on April 2, 2012 \| 91 comments
14.		How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch (viniciusvacanti.com)
		128 points by vacanti on April 2, 2012 \| 55 comments
15.		Yahoo’s Mojito is Now Open Source (yahoo.com)
		130 points by gcb on April 2, 2012 \| 36 comments
16.		Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search (leandomainsearch.com)
		117 points by llambda on April 2, 2012 \| 57 comments
17.		Senator Lieberman proposes to eliminate Section 230 immunity from blogs (mcintyre-v-ohio.com)
		115 points by andrewpi on April 2, 2012 \| 48 comments
18.		Novocaine: painless high-performance audio on iOS and OS X (alexbw.github.com)
		109 points by alexbw on April 2, 2012 \| 40 comments
19.		A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat (opensource.com)
		107 points by taylorbuley on April 2, 2012 \| 27 comments
20.		The "Hello World" of genetic algorithms (generation5.org)
		104 points by DanielHimmelein on April 2, 2012 \| 34 comments
21.		CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root (lwn.net)
		103 points by sounds on April 2, 2012 \| 32 comments
22.		60 minutes: Is sugar toxic? (cbsnews.com)
		103 points by fhoxh on April 2, 2012 \| 124 comments
23.		Don’t Eat Too Much Three Bean Salad. The Server Will Crash. (thenubbyadmin.com)
		100 points by AdamGibbins on April 2, 2012 \| 22 comments
24.		Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin (reuters.com)
		101 points by mrb on April 2, 2012 \| 103 comments
25.		The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network (arstechnica.com)
		100 points by bmunro on April 2, 2012 \| 24 comments
26.		Tattoos and Y Combinator Demo Day (thisisgoingtobebig.com)
		84 points by dwynings on April 2, 2012 \| 21 comments
27.		Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else (codinghorror.com)
		81 points by cruise02 on April 2, 2012 \| 14 comments
28.		Codecademy Adds Beginner Languages HTML and CSS (mashable.com)
		84 points by aritraghosh007 on April 2, 2012 \| 31 comments
29.		No joke: Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in biopic (venturebeat.com)
		76 points by dlf on April 2, 2012 \| 46 comments
30.		Why Google isn’t worried about Android revenue (gigaom.com)
		74 points by acro on April 2, 2012 \| 42 comments
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