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1.		Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown (bbc.co.uk)
		405 points by jgrahamc on May 31, 2012 \| 110 comments
2.		The girl with the ANSI tattoo (oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk)
		367 points by ocirion on May 31, 2012 \| 150 comments
3.		Chromebox (google.com)
		367 points by zoowar on May 31, 2012 \| 297 comments
4.		My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with. (nukaco.la)
		309 points by mntmn on May 31, 2012 \| 108 comments
5.		Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games (humblebundle.com)
		293 points by jeff18 on May 31, 2012 \| 106 comments
6.		Latency numbers every programmer should know (gist.github.com)
		265 points by friggeri on May 31, 2012 \| 134 comments
7.		Google Blockly - a visual programming language (code.google.com)
		258 points by antichaos on May 31, 2012 \| 123 comments
8.		Why I Left Google (spencertipping.com)
		224 points by InfinityX0 on May 31, 2012 \| 212 comments
9.		Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming" (codemanship.co.uk)
		205 points by vetler on May 31, 2012 \| 196 comments
10.		Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt. (torrentfreak.com)
		191 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 \| 90 comments
11.		You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do (kalzumeus.com)
		191 points by spatulon on May 31, 2012 \| 78 comments
12.		Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding (gigaom.com)
		156 points by dko on May 31, 2012 \| 64 comments
13.		Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech: Make Great Things. Learn From Failure. (uarts.edu)
		139 points by rblion on May 31, 2012 \| 17 comments
14.		Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
		132 points by raldi on May 31, 2012 \| 58 comments
15.		LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements (documentfoundation.org)
		130 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 \| 74 comments
16.		Light Table: 24 Hours to Get Another $7000 in the Kickstarter for Python Support (kickstarter.com)
		122 points by gburt on May 31, 2012 \| 54 comments
17.		Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby (bbc.co.uk)
		112 points by gps408 on May 31, 2012 \| 95 comments
18.		The politics of Wi-Fi names (opensignalmaps.com)
		113 points by JamesCRR on May 31, 2012 \| 63 comments
19.		Workplace experiments: A month to yourself (37signals.com)
		108 points by ksat on May 31, 2012 \| 44 comments
20.		25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com)
		106 points by evo_9 on May 31, 2012 \| 35 comments
21.		Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad (hackerno.de)
		107 points by nodemaker on May 31, 2012 \| 68 comments
22.		SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth (bbc.co.uk)
		102 points by sparknlaunch on May 31, 2012 \| 49 comments
23.		Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One. (pointsandfigures.com)
		101 points by robbiea on May 31, 2012 \| 85 comments
24.		Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved (kickstarter.com)
		98 points by orionvmjoseph on May 31, 2012 \| 69 comments
25.		Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast" (reddit.com)
		96 points by xkcdfanboy on May 31, 2012 \| 79 comments
26.		Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting (howtogeek.com)
		96 points by plessthanpt05 on May 31, 2012 \| 48 comments
27.		The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system (yale.edu)
		95 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2012 \| 17 comments
28.		Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated (arstechnica.com)
		91 points by alsothings on May 31, 2012 \| 27 comments
29.		Windows 8 Release Preview ready for download (windows.microsoft.com)
		88 points by tnash on May 31, 2012 \| 89 comments
30.		Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans (5in5nyc.com)
		87 points by ericskiff on May 31, 2012 \| 65 comments
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