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1.
The new Git-scm.com (git-scm.com)
317 points by tanoku on May 4, 2012 | 106 comments
2.
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement (wired.com)
309 points by chaostheory on May 4, 2012 | 120 comments
3.
FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites (cnet.com)
301 points by quadrahelix on May 4, 2012 | 159 comments
4.
Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier (bigml.com)
266 points by jdonaldson on May 4, 2012 | 31 comments
5.
Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes (memrise.com)
198 points by bmj1 on May 4, 2012 | 73 comments
6.
Overpriced Developer Conferences (amberweinberg.com)
189 points by duggan on May 4, 2012 | 141 comments
7.
Getting the closest string match (stackoverflow.com)
171 points by peterldowns on May 4, 2012 | 45 comments
8.
Inverse Fizzbuzz (jasq.org)
167 points by dxbydt on May 4, 2012 | 56 comments
9.
Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js (infoq.com)
162 points by lnmx on May 4, 2012 | 81 comments
10.
IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even (arstechnica.com)
158 points by jvc26 on May 4, 2012 | 110 comments
11.
Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School (forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy)
153 points by tokenadult on May 4, 2012 | 82 comments
12.
Dustin Moskovitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley (pandodaily.com)
144 points by dwynings on May 4, 2012 | 99 comments
13.
Day Against DRM (fsf.org)
136 points by bootload on May 4, 2012 | 32 comments
14.
DRM-Free Day, forever. (oreilly.com)
133 points by Garbage on May 4, 2012 | 24 comments
15.
Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics (discovermagazine.com)
129 points by ColinWright on May 4, 2012 | 109 comments
16.
Save 50% on all oreilly's ebooks and videos (today only) (oreilly.com)
125 points by salimmadjd on May 4, 2012 | 50 comments
17.
Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed (priceonomics.com)
123 points by omarish on May 4, 2012 | 60 comments
18.
Git Subtree merged into mainline git (github.com/gitster)
113 points by moonboots on May 4, 2012 | 38 comments
19.
Facebook's numbers (dcurt.is)
113 points by maccman on May 4, 2012 | 75 comments
20.
C2: Clojure(Script) data visualization (keminglabs.com)
109 points by DanielRibeiro on May 4, 2012 | 21 comments
21.
"Learning Go" Book (miek.nl)
106 points by espeed on May 4, 2012 | 36 comments
22.
A Bayesian Approach to A/B Testing (custora.com)
99 points by pospischil on May 4, 2012 | 20 comments
23.
How to Move Doom Characters in WebGL in 50 lines of JS (learningthreejs.com)
89 points by jerome_etienne on May 4, 2012 | 15 comments
24.
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
89 points by aaronbrethorst on May 4, 2012 | 31 comments
25.
Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time (roshfu.com)
88 points by choxi on May 4, 2012 | 42 comments
26.
ReactiveCocoa for a better world (github.com/blog)
80 points by sant0sk1 on May 4, 2012 | 32 comments
27.
Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all questions but one (groklaw.net)
76 points by grellas on May 4, 2012 | 54 comments
28.
A review of RubyMotion (samsoff.es)
75 points by mdemerson on May 4, 2012 | 30 comments
29.
50% off No Starch ebooks for Day Against DRM (nostarch.com)
74 points by ktf on May 4, 2012 | 22 comments
30.
B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking' (techdirt.com)
70 points by mikecane on May 4, 2012 | 29 comments

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