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1.		OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team" (venturebeat.com)
		366 points by lleims on April 1, 2012 \| 181 comments
2.		Paperfold CSS (developer.mozilla.org)
		325 points by tilt on April 1, 2012 \| 44 comments
3.		Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE (techcrunch.com)
		310 points by canistr on April 1, 2012 \| 113 comments
4.		MMO Asteroids (seb.ly)
		307 points by catilac on April 1, 2012 \| 81 comments
5.		All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN) (aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com)
		292 points by Urgo on April 1, 2012 \| 57 comments
6.		MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it (fastcompany.com)
		286 points by canistr on April 1, 2012 \| 30 comments
7.		Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
		264 points by whoishiring on April 1, 2012 \| 223 comments
8.		How to Train Your Brain to Remember Everything (lifehacker.com)
		216 points by daegloe on April 1, 2012 \| 58 comments
9.		Responsive Design Patterns (lukew.com)
		190 points by sirwitti on April 1, 2012 \| 9 comments
10.		Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic (reddit.com)
		181 points by dkulchenko on April 1, 2012 \| 27 comments
11.		Why nations fail (economist.com)
		175 points by entangld on April 1, 2012 \| 114 comments
12.		Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties (wikipedia.org)
		169 points by llambda on April 1, 2012 \| 9 comments
13.		Ask HN: Computer science for the self taught programmer
		160 points by andys627 on April 1, 2012 \| 36 comments
14.		Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system (github.com/alexnisnevich)
		156 points by alnis on April 1, 2012 \| 19 comments
15.		Codestre.am: streaming your code to the masses (codestre.am)
		149 points by jamesjyu on April 1, 2012 \| 38 comments
16.		Ask HN: Please be more thoughtful when downvoting
		143 points by guynamedloren on April 1, 2012 \| 76 comments
17.		Julia, I Love You (r-bloggers.com)
		140 points by TalGalili on April 1, 2012 \| 43 comments
18.		Poll: Do you have a CS degree?
		138 points by chuhnk on April 1, 2012 \| 172 comments
19.		UK government to monitor email and web use under new laws (bbc.co.uk)
		135 points by earnubs on April 1, 2012 \| 86 comments
20.		Google Really Advanced Search (google.com)
		133 points by tambourine_man on April 1, 2012 \| 33 comments
21.		It's time to level up headphone tech (chrismaury.com)
		129 points by chrmaury on April 1, 2012 \| 45 comments
22.		Chrome Multitask Mode (google.com)
		125 points by plainOldText on April 1, 2012 \| 30 comments
23.		Encrypt Everything (encrypteverything.ca)
		127 points by rosser on April 1, 2012 \| 41 comments
24.		Walken on Rails (collectiveidea.com)
		125 points by danielmorrison on April 1, 2012 \| 10 comments
25.		Ask HN: What did you build in March?
		117 points by amoore on April 1, 2012 \| 140 comments
26.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)
		103 points by whoishiring on April 1, 2012 \| 92 comments
27.		Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup (fredandrandall.com)
		90 points by RandallBrown on April 1, 2012 \| 81 comments
28.		Police Are Using Phone Tracking As A Routine Tool (nytimes.com)
		85 points by gallerytungsten on April 1, 2012 \| 66 comments
29.		Android fragmentation is a feature, not the big problem everyone says it is (vbsteven.com)
		82 points by vbsteven on April 1, 2012 \| 35 comments
30.		Educator suspended when she refused to show her Facebook page (dailydot.com)
		79 points by chrismealy on April 1, 2012 \| 35 comments
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