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1.
5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion (readersupportednews.org)
461 points by captainsinclair on June 7, 2012 | 213 comments
2.
Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery) (github.com/ivaynberg)
369 points by binarydreams on June 7, 2012 | 57 comments
3.
Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address (xip.io)
312 points by qrush on June 7, 2012 | 121 comments
4.
Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists (arstechnica.com)
286 points by llambda on June 7, 2012 | 121 comments
5.
Why Django Sucks (speakerdeck.com)
271 points by kenneth_reitz on June 7, 2012 | 194 comments
6.
Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead… (pardner.com)
271 points by pardner on June 7, 2012 | 125 comments
7.
Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border (zeropaid.com)
248 points by mindstab on June 7, 2012 | 146 comments
8.
SPDY Review by Opera Software (w3.org)
225 points by jacobr on June 7, 2012 | 65 comments
9.
Designing GitHub for Windows (github.com/blog)
207 points by bpierre on June 7, 2012 | 38 comments
10.
Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned (samsaffron.com)
206 points by sathyabhat on June 7, 2012 | 55 comments
11.
Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs (engineering.tumblr.com)
191 points by evanelias on June 7, 2012 | 23 comments
12.
Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API (pin.net.au)
184 points by gbpin on June 7, 2012 | 94 comments
13.
Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V (humblebundle.com)
179 points by gokhan on June 7, 2012 | 66 comments
14.
Md5crypt is no longer strong enough (freebsd.dk)
176 points by phkamp on June 7, 2012 | 136 comments
15.
Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure (windowsazure.com)
173 points by gouranga on June 7, 2012 | 113 comments
16.
Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever. (gimmebar.com)
159 points by aeurielesn on June 7, 2012 | 76 comments
17.
Change your Last.fm password (thenextweb.com)
150 points by luiperd on June 7, 2012 | 146 comments
18.
"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis (daltoncaldwell.com)
143 points by bdb on June 7, 2012 | 118 comments
19.
Peter Thiel on "Founder as Victim, Founder as God" (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
127 points by bgmasters on June 7, 2012 | 43 comments
20.
CWI cryptanalist discovers new cryptographic attack in Flame spy malware (cwi.nl)
118 points by wglb on June 7, 2012 | 25 comments
21.
Heroku is down (heroku.com)
117 points by jackmoore on June 7, 2012 | 98 comments
22.
From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0 (blog.sidu.in)
118 points by jasim on June 7, 2012 | 26 comments
23.
Show HN: Proxino -- Monitor and Debug your JavaScript (proxino.com)
105 points by unignorant on June 7, 2012 | 48 comments
24.
Working away: consider it for your startup (trigger.io)
93 points by amirnathoo on June 7, 2012 | 33 comments
25.
A Cheap 12-Core, 30-Watt Ubuntu Cluster (phoronix.com)
90 points by voodoochilo on June 7, 2012 | 32 comments
26.
Why We Don't Believe in Science (newyorker.com)
89 points by dwynings on June 7, 2012 | 105 comments
27.
Tesla investor Steve Jurvetson drives off in the first Model S (gigaom.com)
80 points by mtgx on June 7, 2012 | 66 comments
28.
IE10's 'Do-Not-Track' Default Dies Quick Death (wired.com)
77 points by mproud on June 7, 2012 | 64 comments
29.
Against live-tweeting at conferences (jasonlefkowitz.net)
74 points by smacktoward on June 7, 2012 | 49 comments
30.
Would Steve Jobs have applied to Y Combinator? (slidetocode.com)
73 points by yanis on June 7, 2012 | 70 comments

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