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1.
Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads (pof.com)
407 points by tylerrooney on April 4, 2012 | 118 comments
2.
The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin (mintchipchallenge.com)
358 points by jonny_eh on April 4, 2012 | 169 comments
3.
Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly (clutch.io)
290 points by ericflo on April 4, 2012 | 88 comments
4.
Google Announces Project Glass (plus.google.com)
272 points by indiefan on April 4, 2012 | 102 comments
5.
Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16 (0x10c.com)
263 points by pros on April 4, 2012 | 172 comments
6.
Just how big are porn sites? (extremetech.com)
251 points by mrsebastian on April 4, 2012 | 105 comments
7.
I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code (danshipper.com)
221 points by dshipper on April 4, 2012 | 114 comments
8.
Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet? (areweslimyet.com)
212 points by cpeterso on April 4, 2012 | 98 comments
9.
Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich? (reddit.com)
202 points by rinnbehr on April 4, 2012 | 172 comments
10.
Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts (yahoo.com)
182 points by inerte on April 4, 2012 | 144 comments
11.
Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting (arstechnica.com)
179 points by iProject on April 4, 2012 | 117 comments
12.
You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (openmymind.net)
177 points by latch on April 4, 2012 | 51 comments
13.
What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets? (theatlantic.com)
173 points by kmfrk on April 4, 2012 | 81 comments
14.
Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures (infoq.com)
158 points by jestinepaul on April 4, 2012 | 11 comments
15.
Programming is hard, let's go scripting.. (perl.com)
151 points by joslin01 on April 4, 2012 | 94 comments
16.
EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence (europa.eu)
136 points by zacharyvoase on April 4, 2012 | 95 comments
17.
C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16 (github.com/swetland)
128 points by coderdude on April 4, 2012 | 89 comments
18.
Hit Shift key 4x on a NYTimes article and see what happens (nytimes.com)
127 points by hammock on April 4, 2012 | 60 comments
19.
Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours) (lesswrong.com)
113 points by Eliezer on April 4, 2012 | 30 comments
20.
The byte order fallacy (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
107 points by enneff on April 4, 2012 | 103 comments
21.
Inside Aaron’s Apartment: A Most Amazing Bedroom (haighteration.com)
107 points by geuis on April 4, 2012 | 53 comments
22.
Linux Tycoon is the premier Linux Distro Building Simulator game (lunduke.com)
105 points by Fargren on April 4, 2012 | 16 comments
23.
Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics (squareup.com)
104 points by allenc on April 4, 2012 | 16 comments
24.
Groupon stock sinks to new low, investors sue (chicagobusiness.com)
90 points by joejohnson on April 4, 2012 | 127 comments
25.
Can JIT be Faster? (tirania.org)
89 points by aespinoza on April 4, 2012 | 39 comments
26.
CSS Hexagon Tutorial (jtauber.github.com)
90 points by jtauber on April 4, 2012 | 27 comments
27.
SQL Injection through HTTP Headers (infosecinstitute.com)
87 points by arb99 on April 4, 2012 | 37 comments
28.
NASA Claims Supersonic Breakthrough For Biz Jets (aviationweek.com)
80 points by yairharel on April 4, 2012 | 28 comments
29.
Jeff Dean - Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services (research.google.com)
77 points by tim_sw on April 4, 2012 | 8 comments
30.
The history and power of silly digital games (nytimes.com)
72 points by LouDog on April 4, 2012 | 6 comments

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