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1.		The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US (marksweep.com)
		562 points by mkswp on April 5, 2012 \| 246 comments
2.		I don't hire unlucky people (raganwald.posterous.com)
		529 points by arcatan on April 5, 2012 \| 268 comments
3.		Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
		279 points by mikeyk on April 5, 2012 \| 53 comments
4.		Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection (justinsomnia.org)
		249 points by phwd on April 5, 2012 \| 78 comments
5.		How To Count A Billion Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory [Probabilistically] (highscalability.com)
		213 points by gruseom on April 5, 2012 \| 59 comments
6.		A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering (arstechnica.com)
		196 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 5, 2012 \| 77 comments
7.		You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors (thetaboard.com)
		187 points by dclaysmith on April 5, 2012 \| 36 comments
8.		Bad News: Google Is Doing The Corporate Future-Vision Video Thing (time.com)
		148 points by Robelius on April 5, 2012 \| 120 comments
9.		What Americans Buy (npr.org)
		147 points by xxpor on April 5, 2012 \| 47 comments
10.		The GitHub Styleguide (github.com/styleguide)
		133 points by jamesjyu on April 5, 2012 \| 78 comments
11.		We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found (thenextweb.com)
		132 points by kurtvarner on April 5, 2012 \| 39 comments
12.		Why I’d like a “license type” setting for GitHub projects (aculo.us)
		132 points by madrobby on April 5, 2012 \| 130 comments
13.		MPAA Chief Suggests Backroom Negotiations On New SOPA Are Well Underway (techdirt.com)
		125 points by sethbannon on April 5, 2012 \| 25 comments
14.		How to leave academia (for science PhDs) (chrisstucchio.com)
		113 points by yummyfajitas on April 5, 2012 \| 124 comments
15.		Edit scheme on your iPad via the parse tree: Lisping launched (slidetocode.com)
		111 points by steeleduncan on April 5, 2012 \| 45 comments
16.		Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16 (github.com/jtauber)
		112 points by jtauber on April 5, 2012 \| 68 comments
17.		Hacker School: Summer 2012 Applications Open + Etsy Scholarships (hackerschool.com)
		106 points by nicholasjbs on April 5, 2012 \| 49 comments
18.		5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion (torrentfreak.com)
		98 points by joeyespo on April 5, 2012 \| 18 comments
19.		Why I hate search (msdn.com)
		97 points by philk10 on April 5, 2012 \| 73 comments
20.		Yet another Google Glasses Ad (tomscott.com)
		95 points by jakozaur on April 5, 2012 \| 20 comments
21.		What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them? (reddit.com)
		91 points by moooooky on April 5, 2012 \| 69 comments
22.		How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse (42floors.com)
		90 points by waratuman on April 5, 2012 \| 61 comments
23.		Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github (fogcreek.com)
		88 points by bgraves on April 5, 2012 \| 29 comments
24.		Software Engineering at Prismatic (getprismatic.com)
		87 points by fogus on April 5, 2012 \| 18 comments
25.		Dropbox adds drag and drop (dropbox.com)
		87 points by jackyolk on April 5, 2012 \| 29 comments
26.		Finding Early Customers When You Aren't Internet Famous (zapier.com)
		77 points by WadeF on April 5, 2012 \| 24 comments
27.		Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology (etsy.com)
		78 points by kellanem on April 5, 2012 \| 40 comments
28.		Danish Startup Community Unified Against The Entrepreneur Tax (arcticstartup.com)
		73 points by vilpponen on April 5, 2012 \| 34 comments
29.		$8M in Funding and a Lawsuit to Boot? Game on. (boundless.com)
		73 points by aaronwhite on April 5, 2012 \| 43 comments
30.		Chuck Moore on push-down stacks (colorforth.com)
		68 points by gruseom on April 5, 2012 \| 10 comments
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