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1.		7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes (highscalability.com)
		504 points by yarapavan on March 26, 2012 \| 70 comments
2.		A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (apenwarr.ca)
		436 points by rcfox on March 26, 2012 \| 90 comments
3.		The universe is big. This big. (discovermagazine.com)
		422 points by wwwhizz on March 26, 2012 \| 98 comments
4.		"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'" (skattertech.com)
		408 points by xatax on March 26, 2012 \| 75 comments
5.		Redis persistence demystified (antirez.com)
		330 points by antirez on March 26, 2012 \| 24 comments
6.		Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend (billthelizard.com)
		316 points by ashishgandhi on March 26, 2012 \| 157 comments
7.		16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft (tomshardware.com)
		266 points by onemoreact on March 26, 2012 \| 76 comments
8.		Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why (torrentfreak.com)
		260 points by cleverjake on March 26, 2012 \| 189 comments
9.		Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb (craig.is)
		257 points by jasonmoo on March 26, 2012 \| 32 comments
10.		Girls and Computers (rmurphey.com)
		230 points by taylorbuley on March 26, 2012 \| 84 comments
11.		99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet (techcrunch.com)
		208 points by garry on March 26, 2012 \| 146 comments
12.		Notepad++ 6.0 Released (notepad-plus-plus.org)
		202 points by kefs on March 26, 2012 \| 101 comments
13.		Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js (backlift.com)
		201 points by colevscode on March 26, 2012 \| 50 comments
14.		How I survived a plane crash (bbc.co.uk)
		194 points by felixchan on March 26, 2012 \| 63 comments
15.		How I went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day (thisblogisaploy.blogspot.ca)
		188 points by will_lam on March 26, 2012 \| 64 comments
16.		Parse 1.0 is released (parse.com)
		185 points by jamesjyu on March 26, 2012 \| 38 comments
17.		Create your own programming language in JavaScript (nathansuniversity.appspot.com)
		177 points by fogus on March 26, 2012 \| 27 comments
18.		German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory (hollywoodreporter.com)
		158 points by NonEUCitizen on March 26, 2012 \| 64 comments
19.		For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere (economist.com)
		156 points by gruseom on March 26, 2012 \| 153 comments
20.		Keeping bash history in sync between multiple terminals (briancarper.net)
		151 points by patpng on March 26, 2012 \| 34 comments
21.		Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep (scientificamerican.com)
		152 points by duaneb on March 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
22.		Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the world
		144 points by tempaccount987 on March 26, 2012 \| 72 comments
23.		The pull-to-refresh patent (dcurt.is)
		146 points by beggi on March 26, 2012 \| 112 comments
24.		Free book on Statistics for Programmers (greenteapress.com)
		142 points by seshagiric on March 26, 2012 \| 7 comments
25.		Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates (techcrunch.com)
		143 points by jasontraff on March 26, 2012 \| 37 comments
26.		Colourlovers Buys Forrst (pandodaily.com)
		134 points by suhailpatel on March 26, 2012 \| 29 comments
27.		Why Javascript is a Joy (allenc.com)
		110 points by tilt on March 26, 2012 \| 55 comments
28.		Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat (cringely.com)
		104 points by evo_9 on March 26, 2012 \| 3 comments
29.		An Enigma cipher machine implemented in an Excel spreadsheet by a non-programmer (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
		103 points by willvarfar on March 26, 2012 \| 23 comments
30.		List of cognitive biases (wikipedia.org)
		101 points by olalonde on March 26, 2012 \| 17 comments
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