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1.
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (edweissman.com)
457 points by jacobr on May 17, 2012 | 231 comments
2.
The Facebook Offering: How It Compares (nytimes.com)
296 points by jashkenas on May 17, 2012 | 83 comments
3.
All the oxygen trapped in a bubble (37signals.com)
253 points by raganwald on May 17, 2012 | 120 comments
4.
Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India (indiancustomers.in)
247 points by RealGeek on May 17, 2012 | 107 comments
5.
50 Years Ago: The World in 1962 (theatlantic.com)
210 points by wglb on May 17, 2012 | 130 comments
6.
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You (nationaljournal.com)
176 points by JonnieCache on May 17, 2012 | 103 comments
7.
CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3 (csshat.com)
167 points by benackles on May 17, 2012 | 75 comments
8.
Smart people don't think others are stupid (sivers.org)
167 points by cheeaun on May 17, 2012 | 123 comments
9.
SASS vs. LESS (css-tricks.com)
162 points by cobychapple on May 17, 2012 | 58 comments
10.
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (mines.edu)
162 points by ColinWright on May 17, 2012 | 30 comments
11.
Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind (wired.com)
160 points by bcl on May 17, 2012 | 33 comments
12.
Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC (washingtonpost.com)
155 points by pstuart on May 17, 2012 | 152 comments
13.
Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation (allthingsd.com)
152 points by forgot_password on May 17, 2012 | 124 comments
14.
Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (arstechnica.com)
143 points by skryl on May 17, 2012 | 54 comments
15.
Rails Console Tips (37signals.com)
137 points by sathishmanohar on May 17, 2012 | 4 comments
16.
Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome (ruby-lang.org)
123 points by igrigorik on May 17, 2012 | 72 comments
17.
Upcoming SPDY support details (nginx.org)
122 points by alexchamberlain on May 17, 2012 | 26 comments
18.
Candy Japan April Income Report (candyjapan.com)
110 points by micrypt on May 17, 2012 | 78 comments
19.
Preventing Site Scraping (techjunkie.com)
105 points by jumpbug on May 17, 2012 | 76 comments
20.
Twitter Open Sourced Reputation System Gem for ActiveRecord (github.com/twitter)
102 points by katsuyan on May 17, 2012 | 6 comments
21.
Show HN: Organized Wonder (organizedwonder.com)
92 points by nicksergeant on May 17, 2012 | 14 comments
22.
Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue (safeshepherd.com)
90 points by useflyer on May 17, 2012 | 77 comments
23.
Open Source Guitar Effects Pedal (openstomp.com)
86 points by carlos on May 17, 2012 | 26 comments
24.
Your startup’s top priorities. (tomasztunguz.com)
87 points by ttunguz on May 17, 2012 | 16 comments
25.
50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph (npr.org)
82 points by mshafrir on May 17, 2012 | 71 comments
26.
Real Shadow: jQuery Plugin that casts photorealistic shadows (indamix.github.com)
83 points by illdave on May 17, 2012 | 32 comments
27.
On Counter Offers (jasonpunyon.github.com)
80 points by JasonPunyon on May 17, 2012 | 64 comments
28.
Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme" (forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday)
82 points by ljlolel on May 17, 2012 | 82 comments
29.
List of emerging technologies (wikipedia.org)
78 points by caustic on May 17, 2012 | 41 comments
30.
'Private' social network Everyme (YC S11) takes on Facebook (usatoday.com)
78 points by olivercameron on May 17, 2012 | 61 comments

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