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1.		SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow (nasa.gov)
		386 points by mkr-hn on May 18, 2012 \| 79 comments
2.		Recording police with your smartphone is a Constitutional right, says DoJ (digitaltrends.com)
		302 points by ubasu on May 18, 2012 \| 63 comments
3.		Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors. (kloninger.com)
		301 points by sefk on May 18, 2012 \| 241 comments
4.		NASDAQ:FB (google.com)
		303 points by teoruiz on May 18, 2012 \| 295 comments
5.		Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company (smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)
		268 points by adam on May 18, 2012 \| 98 comments
6.		Objectivist C (fdiv.net)
		221 points by mkopinsky on May 18, 2012 \| 73 comments
7.		'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave' (theatlantic.com)
		197 points by waxymonkeyfrog on May 18, 2012 \| 145 comments
8.		Gödel and the limits of logic (maths.org)
		166 points by ColinWright on May 18, 2012 \| 76 comments
9.		I found that the company I work for is putting backdoor into mobile phones (security.stackexchange.com)
		146 points by vgnet on May 18, 2012 \| 32 comments
10.		RIP Jim Gray - Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist (nytimes.com)
		136 points by yarapavan on May 18, 2012 \| 13 comments
11.		Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online (mashable.com)
		136 points by MarlonPro on May 18, 2012 \| 82 comments
12.		Facebook buys Karma (getkarma.com)
		123 points by pitdesi on May 18, 2012 \| 52 comments
13.		My Biggest Temptation (ryanleecarson.tumblr.com)
		122 points by ryancarson on May 18, 2012 \| 68 comments
14.		Atlas: A Human-Powered Helicopter (kickstarter.com)
		119 points by yurisagalov on May 18, 2012 \| 43 comments
15.		How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button (techcrunch.com)
		118 points by richoakley on May 18, 2012 \| 33 comments
16.		Tossing Out IRB for Pry (philaquilina.com)
		113 points by philaquilina on May 18, 2012 \| 23 comments
17.		DDG now searches HN for stories and comments (duckduckgo.com)
		111 points by rnicholson on May 18, 2012 \| 21 comments
18.		Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting (smashingmagazine.com)
		98 points by peeplaja on May 18, 2012 \| 9 comments
19.		John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio (daringfireball.net)
		96 points by lleims on May 18, 2012 \| 157 comments
20.		Why Did Zynga Tank After Facebook IPOed? (theatlantic.com)
		84 points by mattobrien on May 18, 2012 \| 33 comments
21.		Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00 (marketwatch.com)
		82 points by liuwei6 on May 18, 2012 \| 98 comments
22.		A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job (theglobeandmail.com)
		80 points by jteo on May 18, 2012 \| 139 comments
23.		Carmageddon seeks Kickstarter cash comeback (bbc.co.uk)
		75 points by xd on May 18, 2012 \| 30 comments
24.		Nginx 1.3.0 is out (nginx.org)
		74 points by IgorPartola on May 18, 2012 \| 35 comments
25.		Starting Referly (YC S12) Took Me Three Years (daniellemorrill.com)
		73 points by unnamed on May 18, 2012 \| 25 comments
26.		Reticent rich: Preferred style in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
		75 points by bootload on May 18, 2012 \| 75 comments
27.		Make your website super fast with Asset Pipeline, Sprites & Cloudfront (railsonfire.com)
		71 points by moritzplassnig on May 18, 2012 \| 16 comments
28.		Buffett to buy 63 newspapers (omaha.com)
		70 points by danso on May 18, 2012 \| 45 comments
29.		Show HN: HTML5 Piano - with its own data URI synth (mrcoles.com)
		64 points by mrcoles on May 18, 2012 \| 39 comments
30.		Memristors in silicon promising for dense, fast memory (bbc.co.uk)
		59 points by ColinWright on May 18, 2012 \| 30 comments
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