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1.
Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer (learncodethehardway.org)
670 points by twampss on May 15, 2012 | 218 comments
2.
Please Learn to Code (sachagreif.com)
654 points by sgdesign on May 15, 2012 | 146 comments
3.
OpenShift by Red Hat (redhat.com)
329 points by kragniz on May 15, 2012 | 112 comments
4.
GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account (forbes.com/sites/joannmuller)
308 points by gscott on May 15, 2012 | 257 comments
5.
Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu (wilwheaton.typepad.com)
288 points by macco on May 15, 2012 | 163 comments
6.
On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code (gist.github.com)
206 points by esmooov on May 15, 2012 | 60 comments
7.
WTFWG (timkadlec.com)
205 points by jacobr on May 15, 2012 | 36 comments
8.
My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe (designspark.com)
198 points by revorad on May 15, 2012 | 65 comments
9.
Steve Ballmer's Microsoft (dcurt.is)
179 points by lleims on May 15, 2012 | 117 comments
10.
Android Fragmentation Visualized (opensignalmaps.com)
168 points by sinak on May 15, 2012 | 84 comments
11.
Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says (yahoo.com)
157 points by bitops on May 15, 2012 | 83 comments
12.
Google Green - The Story of Send (google.com)
142 points by mayanksinghal on May 15, 2012 | 60 comments
13.
Memory Reordering Caught in the Act (preshing.com)
137 points by jenhsun on May 15, 2012 | 32 comments
14.
2012 Salary Guide for Creative and Technology Professionals [pdf] (amazonaws.com)
131 points by uptown on May 15, 2012 | 90 comments
15.
Focus.py (amoffat.github.com)
112 points by _ikke_ on May 15, 2012 | 57 comments
16.
PostgreSQL 9.2 beta adds JSON (h-online.com)
108 points by voodoochilo on May 15, 2012 | 24 comments
17.
What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education (gametheorist.blogspot.co.uk)
108 points by pooya72 on May 15, 2012 | 41 comments
18.
This is probably why everyone still relies on Google (robotmay.com)
105 points by _ompc on May 15, 2012 | 38 comments
19.
CSS-Only Clickjacking (jsfiddle.net)
104 points by flexterra on May 15, 2012 | 35 comments
20.
Why I Desperately Needed to Learn to Code (influencehacks.com)
104 points by gregp on May 15, 2012 | 23 comments
21.
A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity (nytimes.com)
101 points by ckuehne on May 15, 2012 | 92 comments
22.
Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast’s network (ber.gd)
104 points by dalton on May 15, 2012 | 27 comments
23.
CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (forbes.com/sites/adamhartung)
97 points by asto on May 15, 2012 | 95 comments
24.
Underscores are stupid (avdi.org)
95 points by raganwald on May 15, 2012 | 127 comments
25.
Facebook’s business model (cdixon.org)
95 points by lleims on May 15, 2012 | 55 comments
26.
Plagiarism, the plot thickens (jacquesmattheij.com)
93 points by llambda on May 15, 2012 | 12 comments
27.
Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro) (mobtest.com)
91 points by dirkdk on May 15, 2012 | 61 comments
28.
Quora's $50 million (dcurt.is)
87 points by kreutz on May 15, 2012 | 57 comments
29.
If you're seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware (wikimedia.org)
84 points by vgnet on May 15, 2012 | 31 comments
30.
Full Distributed Teams: are they viable? (pixelmonkey.org)
84 points by sak84 on May 15, 2012 | 54 comments

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