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1.
Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
358 points by mrspeaker on March 24, 2012 | 350 comments
2.
Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger (torrentfreak.com)
216 points by zotz on March 24, 2012 | 175 comments
3.
Pair (YC W12) is a Path for the Two of Us (techcrunch.com)
212 points by mpetrov on March 24, 2012 | 75 comments
4.
Show HN: Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it (itunes.apple.com)
185 points by pheelicks on March 24, 2012 | 81 comments
5.
How to explain your game to an asshole (pentadact.com)
180 points by arthurbrown on March 24, 2012 | 36 comments
6.
Consistent Hashing (tomkleinpeter.com)
167 points by aqrashik on March 24, 2012 | 10 comments
7.
Startups, Fix Your "From" Field (jazzychad.net)
165 points by jazzychad on March 24, 2012 | 61 comments
8.
XBMC 11 is released (xbmc.org)
159 points by AndrewDucker on March 24, 2012 | 61 comments
9.
"BitC isn't going to work in its current form" (coyotos.org)
144 points by kumarshantanu on March 24, 2012 | 81 comments
10.
The Plight of the Introvert [A Rant] (edwardamsden.com)
122 points by vgnet on March 24, 2012 | 64 comments
11.
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming (datacenterknowledge.com)
118 points by cd34 on March 24, 2012 | 82 comments
12.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem explained (miskatonic.org)
111 points by simonbrown on March 24, 2012 | 58 comments
13.
Realtime Metrics for 128 Million Users with Redis: 50ms + 16MB RAM (getspool.com)
112 points by pooriaazimi on March 24, 2012 | 18 comments
14.
The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever (wired.com)
111 points by nigma on March 24, 2012 | 30 comments
15.
Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0 (patshaughnessy.net)
106 points by DavidChouinard on March 24, 2012 | 39 comments
16.
Show HN: Worldle- 24 Hour real time boggle HTML5 hackathon game (concavegames.com)
91 points by farhadabas on March 24, 2012 | 52 comments
17.
The YC Application Deadline is Now March 29 (1 day later)
84 points by pg on March 24, 2012 | 20 comments
18.
A Conversation with Guido about Callbacks (oubiwann.blogspot.com)
68 points by vgnet on March 24, 2012 | 45 comments
19.
YouPorn: Symfony2, Redis, Varnish, HA Proxy... (Keynote at ConFoo 2012) (joind.in)
67 points by janpio on March 24, 2012 | 49 comments
20.
ISS crew take to escape capsules in space junk alert (bbc.co.uk)
60 points by J3L2404 on March 24, 2012 | 5 comments
21.
Ex Apple TV Engineer: New Apple TV UI is actually one Jobs threw away years ago (9to5mac.com)
58 points by i_cannot_hack on March 24, 2012 | 44 comments
22.
Think twice before installing Chrome extensions (securelist.com)
53 points by vgnet on March 24, 2012 | 13 comments
23.
The death throes of an industry (jacquesmattheij.com)
52 points by hawke on March 24, 2012 | 77 comments
24.
Su VS sudo su VS sudo -u -i (johnkpaul.tumblr.com)
51 points by johnkpaul on March 24, 2012 | 25 comments
25.
A fast paced stock exchange trips over itself (nytimes.com)
47 points by tmorton on March 24, 2012 | 30 comments
26.
Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits (nature.com)
45 points by pwg on March 24, 2012 | 7 comments
27.
Instagram for Android landing page (instagr.am)
43 points by lleims on March 24, 2012 | 13 comments
28.
45-foot paper airplane glides over Arizona desert (latimes.com)
42 points by voodoochilo on March 24, 2012 | 4 comments
29.
Your Mom is Not a Valid Test Market (fullcontact.com)
39 points by lorangb on March 24, 2012 | 12 comments
30.
Calibre and Project Gutenberg: Liberate Your eReader. (thepowerbase.com)
40 points by bigmetalman on March 24, 2012 | 18 comments

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