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1.		The Programmer Salary Taboo (thurn.ca)
		421 points by andrewmunn on April 12, 2011 \| 319 comments
2.		Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks (apple.stackexchange.com)
		341 points by franze on April 12, 2011 \| 76 comments
3.		Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? (tampabay.com)
		297 points by plinkplonk on April 12, 2011 \| 164 comments
4.		VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS (cloudfoundry.com)
		225 points by Smrchy on April 12, 2011 \| 56 comments
5.		Soldering is easy - 7 page comic book about how to solder (andie.se)
		193 points by nordgren on April 12, 2011 \| 35 comments
6.		The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle (humblebundle.com)
		189 points by jeff18 on April 12, 2011 \| 37 comments
7.		Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments (edweissman.com)
		184 points by zyfo on April 12, 2011 \| 49 comments
8.		That dev's salary is higher than mine (earthweb.com)
		178 points by bhoung on April 12, 2011 \| 162 comments
9.		Flock is dead (flock.com)
		176 points by idefix on April 12, 2011 \| 56 comments
10.		How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide (gregschlom.com)
		173 points by gregschlom on April 12, 2011 \| 70 comments
11.		CSS: Our best practices are killing us (slideshare.net)
		168 points by mokkos on April 12, 2011 \| 53 comments
12.		Ioerror's tweets after yet another detention (this time in Texas) (exquisitetweets.com)
		164 points by neilk on April 12, 2011 \| 59 comments
13.		Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer (techcrunch.com)
		149 points by mp3jeep01 on April 12, 2011 \| 24 comments
14.		Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of Facebook (theatlanticwire.com)
		116 points by sasvari on April 12, 2011 \| 94 comments
15.		IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5 (msdn.com)
		115 points by intranation on April 12, 2011 \| 105 comments
16.		Start-ups Rejected By Y Combinator (And Investors) Flock To YC Reject (blogs.forbes.com)
		102 points by rrhoover on April 12, 2011 \| 41 comments
17.		Advanced programming languages (might.net)
		100 points by fogus on April 12, 2011 \| 40 comments
18.		Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel (techcrunch.com)
		102 points by kevruger on April 12, 2011 \| 82 comments
19.		How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings (dubfire.net)
		100 points by schwanksta on April 12, 2011 \| 88 comments
20.		The iPhone Tab Bar (significantpixels.com)
		97 points by gulbrandr on April 12, 2011 \| 20 comments
21.		Cisco To Shut Down Flip Video Business; Will Give Pink Slips To 550 Employees (techcrunch.com)
		94 points by bossjones on April 12, 2011 \| 63 comments
22.		How I got a blank book to the top of the Amazon charts (realbusiness.co.uk)
		91 points by davidw on April 12, 2011 \| 21 comments
23.		How Facebook likes are calculated (ksablan.com)
		88 points by blazer7486 on April 12, 2011 \| 33 comments
24.		Fogus: Node.js should become its own language (fogus.me)
		83 points by evjan on April 12, 2011 \| 73 comments
25.		Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order (eff.org)
		82 points by grellas on April 12, 2011 \| 22 comments
26.		Scaling python for high load websites (yougov.github.com)
		77 points by blhack on April 12, 2011 \| 9 comments
27.		Legal techniques the rich use to avoid paying taxes (businessweek.com)
		71 points by lazyjeff on April 12, 2011 \| 41 comments
28.		Are You Following a Bot? (theatlantic.com)
		69 points by taylorbuley on April 12, 2011 \| 17 comments
29.		Should top CS schools offer Software Engineering as a separate major? (nerdcollider.com)
		68 points by ssclafani on April 12, 2011 \| 46 comments
30.		Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable (wikipedia.org)
		67 points by reddittor on April 12, 2011 \| 27 comments
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