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1.		Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen (superuser.com)
		531 points by eavc on May 1, 2012 \| 64 comments
2.		Android Ported to C# (xamarin.com)
		516 points by pmjordan on May 1, 2012 \| 165 comments
3.		Introducing DuckDuckHack (gabrielweinberg.com)
		417 points by bjplink on May 1, 2012 \| 72 comments
4.		What time is it? (wz.cz)
		363 points by joaopfsilva on May 1, 2012 \| 80 comments
5.		Google open sources key piece of Street View technology (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		350 points by mierle on May 1, 2012 \| 51 comments
6.		Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos (speakerdeck.com)
		259 points by daviday on May 1, 2012 \| 102 comments
7.		Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money (thenextweb.com)
		245 points by antr on May 1, 2012 \| 82 comments
8.		Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
		243 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2012 \| 269 comments
9.		Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing) (megrobichaud.tumblr.com)
		239 points by digitalnalogika on May 1, 2012 \| 80 comments
10.		Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining (highlyscalable.wordpress.com)
		229 points by aespinoza on May 1, 2012 \| 8 comments
11.		Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI (plus.google.com)
		201 points by simanyay on May 1, 2012 \| 152 comments
12.		Three things you should never put in your database (revsys.com)
		146 points by webology on May 1, 2012 \| 91 comments
13.		Try this at home - science experiments for everyone (t2ah.com)
		136 points by ColinWright on May 1, 2012 \| 16 comments
14.		Uber launches on demand Mariachi band for $100 (uber.com)
		125 points by iag on May 1, 2012 \| 29 comments
15.		The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die (leancrew.com)
		122 points by b14ck on May 1, 2012 \| 72 comments
16.		Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? (inc.com)
		118 points by aaronbrethorst on May 1, 2012 \| 83 comments
17.		DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript (int3.github.com)
		117 points by gmac on May 1, 2012 \| 30 comments
18.		Data At GitHub (github.com/blog)
		112 points by lee337 on May 1, 2012 \| 2 comments
19.		OpenBSD 5.1 released (openbsd.org)
		112 points by hackermom on May 1, 2012 \| 38 comments
20.		Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (arstechnica.com)
		110 points by evo_9 on May 1, 2012 \| 102 comments
21.		Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price? (asmartbear.com)
		111 points by hawke on May 1, 2012 \| 59 comments
22.		Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN (torrentfreak.com)
		109 points by webandrew on May 1, 2012 \| 86 comments
23.		Tindie: an etsy for electronics (tindie.com)
		105 points by netcrash on May 1, 2012 \| 19 comments
24.		The "Me, Too" Startup Syndrome (funtrepreneur.tumblr.com)
		103 points by designhacker on May 1, 2012 \| 63 comments
25.		SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry (seomoz.org)
		101 points by Fluxx on May 1, 2012 \| 34 comments
26.		Heroku's new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database (heroku.com)
		94 points by chanks on May 1, 2012 \| 25 comments
27.		Google BigQuery brings Big Data analytics to all businesses (googledevelopers.blogspot.in)
		91 points by boundlessdreamz on May 1, 2012 \| 13 comments
28.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)
		82 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2012 \| 86 comments
29.		Check Out This Berkeley Freshman’s ‘Ridiculously Automated’ Dorm Room (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by jedwhite on May 1, 2012 \| 33 comments
30.		The C Conference (cconf.org)
		75 points by sebkomianos on May 1, 2012 \| 6 comments
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