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1.		Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I' (npr.org)
		261 points by protomyth on May 5, 2012 \| 173 comments
2.		Linux's awesome and underused traffic control facilities (serverfault.com)
		224 points by powertower on May 5, 2012 \| 28 comments
3.		Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76% (medicalxpress.com)
		170 points by heroic on May 5, 2012 \| 77 comments
4.		How not to ask questions at a conference (inburke.com)
		163 points by kevinburke on May 5, 2012 \| 63 comments
5.		Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial (azabani.com)
		152 points by delan on May 5, 2012 \| 56 comments
6.		Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell (parfunk.blogspot.com)
		131 points by dons on May 5, 2012 \| 11 comments
7.		Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments (techcrunch.com)
		125 points by Braasch on May 5, 2012 \| 69 comments
8.		Interviews Can Be a Terrible Way to Identify Good Programmers (thecodist.com)
		126 points by ks on May 5, 2012 \| 103 comments
9.		Opa replaces Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL with one unified language. (opalang.org)
		116 points by bobrenjc93 on May 5, 2012 \| 86 comments
10.		The Grok prediction engine from Numenta announced (numenta.com)
		98 points by habiteer on May 5, 2012 \| 25 comments
11.		Heroku’s early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million (flourish.org)
		96 points by frabcus on May 5, 2012 \| 21 comments
12.		Glancee is Joining Facebook (glancee.com)
		95 points by sunsu on May 5, 2012 \| 16 comments
13.		Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom (joel.is)
		95 points by rythie on May 5, 2012 \| 34 comments
14.		The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability? (pastebay.net)
		92 points by pimeys on May 5, 2012 \| 21 comments
15.		Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient (schnada.de)
		86 points by batista on May 5, 2012 \| 114 comments
16.		170+ Django conference videos (equallytrue.blogspot.com)
		82 points by Juha on May 5, 2012 \| 13 comments
17.		Today just feels magical.
		80 points by Sakes on May 5, 2012 \| 8 comments
18.		Is it possible to become 'excellent' at both design and coding?
		79 points by travissisti on May 5, 2012 \| 93 comments
19.		Show HN: Server installs simplified (and built from source) (rayburst.com)
		79 points by lnguyen on May 5, 2012 \| 57 comments
20.		CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering (onextrapixel.com)
		77 points by samanthabear on May 5, 2012 \| 23 comments
21.		How the shift to ebooks will affect genre categories in fiction (antipope.org)
		77 points by cstross on May 5, 2012 \| 45 comments
22.		ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber - Part Two: the accidental chip (reghardware.com)
		73 points by vgnet on May 5, 2012 \| 8 comments
23.		Top Things Every Software Engineer Should Know (javacodegeeks.com)
		70 points by nikosmar on May 5, 2012 \| 45 comments
24.		Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community (gowers.wordpress.com)
		64 points by vgnet on May 5, 2012 \| 17 comments
25.		If the Internet was around before recorded music would we have record labels? (lewisflude.tumblr.com)
		60 points by lewisflude on May 5, 2012 \| 35 comments
26.		Ask HN: Best practices when pitching your startup to Techcrunch, Mashable etc?
		59 points by pramodbiligiri on May 5, 2012 \| 49 comments
27.		How To Waste $500,000 On A Domain Name - Startups.Com Story (pickydomains.com)
		55 points by petercooper on May 5, 2012 \| 47 comments
28.		AT&T chief regrets offering unlimited data for iPhone (nytimes.com)
		53 points by jacketseason on May 5, 2012 \| 71 comments
29.		CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser (techcrunch.com)
		50 points by kloncks on May 5, 2012 \| 27 comments
30.		New HTTP status codes (rooftopsolutions.nl)
		48 points by vgnet on May 5, 2012 \| 15 comments
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