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1.		GitHub for Windows (github.com/blog)
		549 points by sant0sk1 on May 21, 2012 \| 236 comments
2.		Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices (leapmotion.com)
		458 points by travisglines on May 21, 2012 \| 181 comments
3.		Coda 2 (panic.com)
		376 points by idan on May 21, 2012 \| 99 comments
4.		I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened. (thejournal.ie)
		330 points by nreece on May 21, 2012 \| 108 comments
5.		WYSIHTML5: A better approach to rich text editing (xing.github.com)
		312 points by tiff on May 21, 2012 \| 78 comments
6.		Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research (access2research.org)
		292 points by MikeTaylor on May 21, 2012 \| 55 comments
7.		Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show (5by5.tv)
		243 points by ehed on May 21, 2012 \| 122 comments
8.		Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley (steveblank.com)
		214 points by czzarr on May 21, 2012 \| 120 comments
9.		Nmap 6 released after three years of work (nmap.org)
		213 points by jimmyjim on May 21, 2012 \| 31 comments
10.		FB down 8% at opening (google.com)
		209 points by jcfrei on May 21, 2012 \| 195 comments
11.		Please don't let gaming consume your life (buildstarted.com)
		197 points by Buildstarted on May 21, 2012 \| 182 comments
12.		GTar: The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play (kickstarter.com)
		192 points by yurisagalov on May 21, 2012 \| 96 comments
13.		Behind the scenes at Adioso - Part 2: Stunts (tomhoward.co)
		179 points by tomhoward on May 21, 2012 \| 23 comments
14.		Mike Moritz Stepping Back From Sequoia Due to Health Problems (pandodaily.com)
		165 points by motti_s on May 21, 2012 \| 23 comments
15.		Diet Coda (panic.com)
		156 points by mynameisraj on May 21, 2012 \| 25 comments
16.		White House petition to bring down paywalls on taxpayer-funded research (whitehouse.gov)
		154 points by RichardPrice on May 21, 2012 \| 15 comments
17.		Google Chrome Leapfrogs Internet Explorer as the Web's Top Browser (thenextweb.com)
		153 points by jarederondu on May 21, 2012 \| 103 comments
18.		The new emberjs.com (emberjs.com)
		143 points by tomdale on May 21, 2012 \| 47 comments
19.		introduction to "dark patterns" in design (darkpatterns.org)
		131 points by its_so_on on May 21, 2012 \| 29 comments
20.		Supreme Court Lets Stand Student's $675,000 Penalty For Downloading (npr.org)
		127 points by marklabedz on May 21, 2012 \| 60 comments
21.		Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB (highscalability.com)
		118 points by Anon84 on May 21, 2012 \| 86 comments
22.		Thiel on 60 minutes (cbsnews.com)
		117 points by justhw on May 21, 2012 \| 88 comments
23.		How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)
		117 points by mglz on May 21, 2012 \| 43 comments
24.		Perl 5.16.0 is out, with 590,000 lines of changes (perl.org)
		108 points by Terretta on May 21, 2012 \| 21 comments
25.		Linux 3.4 kernel released (kernelnewbies.org)
		107 points by keyist on May 21, 2012 \| 46 comments
26.		Why I switched to Spine.js (destroytoday.com)
		98 points by ericclemmons on May 21, 2012 \| 32 comments
27.		SpaceX to relaunch rocket Tuesday 12:44 AM PST/ 3:44 AM EST (latimes.com)
		87 points by jasondc on May 21, 2012 \| 18 comments
28.		Start sending dates the right way (aka The ISO8601 101) (tempus-js.com)
		86 points by Keithamus on May 21, 2012 \| 80 comments
29.		Zedshaw/Tir (github.com/zedshaw)
		84 points by shawndumas on May 21, 2012 \| 38 comments
30.		SpahQL - A query language for Javascript objects (angryamoeba.co.uk)
		83 points by raystar on May 21, 2012 \| 34 comments
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