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1.
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code” (github.com/twitter)
279 points by sferik on April 15, 2012 | 192 comments
2.
Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine (github.com/farbrausch)
270 points by ginsweater on April 15, 2012 | 66 comments
3.
Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon (brendaneich.com)
256 points by raganwald on April 15, 2012 | 133 comments
4.
UK moves to restrict Internet freedom (aljazeera.com)
240 points by atlantic on April 15, 2012 | 61 comments
5.
Ice (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
232 points by robinhouston on April 15, 2012 | 12 comments
6.
A great list of command-line tips (commandlinefu.com)
223 points by shocks on April 15, 2012 | 28 comments
7.
No I won't sign your NDA, here's why. (jpl-consulting.com)
220 points by jplarson on April 15, 2012 | 93 comments
8.
Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app (venturebeat.com)
181 points by dwynings on April 15, 2012 | 39 comments
9.
Atari Sketches of Laptops and Wikipedia from 1982 (futureofthebook.org)
169 points by maxwell on April 15, 2012 | 51 comments
10.
Kickstarter Is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics, Probably By Mistake (amandapeyton.com)
169 points by zachh on April 15, 2012 | 67 comments
11.
Our take on Derby vs. Meteor (derbyjs.com)
164 points by pie on April 15, 2012 | 30 comments
12.
Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles (facebook.com)
160 points by dwynings on April 15, 2012 | 59 comments
13.
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 4 Notes Essay (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
136 points by aaronbrethorst on April 15, 2012 | 15 comments
14.
An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram (techcrunch.com)
126 points by psycho on April 15, 2012 | 68 comments
15.
Why Generation Y Is Causing The Great Migration Of The 21st Century (placeshakers.wordpress.com)
109 points by trevin on April 15, 2012 | 129 comments
16.
Secret Computer Code Threatens Science (scientificamerican.com)
105 points by emcl on April 15, 2012 | 42 comments
17.
Stop Looking For A Technical Co-founder (techcrunch.com)
91 points by ssclafani on April 15, 2012 | 42 comments
18.
WebP - A new image format for the Web (by Google) (developers.google.com)
90 points by marcusEting on April 15, 2012 | 53 comments
19.
1.5 million pages of ancient texts to be made accessible online (arstechnica.com)
87 points by iProject on April 15, 2012 | 10 comments
20.
Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (1989) (cern.ch)
86 points by epenn on April 15, 2012 | 18 comments
21.
A Programming Language, now in HTML (50th anniversary) (jsoftware.com)
82 points by ranit8 on April 15, 2012 | 13 comments
22.
Semicolon.js (github.com/madrobby)
76 points by MatthewPhillips on April 15, 2012 | 25 comments
23.
Ask HN: How can Non-US founders open a bank account in the US?
75 points by sathishmanohar on April 15, 2012 | 64 comments
24.
What's the row of numbers on the copyright page of books? (msdn.com)
64 points by raganwald on April 15, 2012 | 11 comments
25.
How to fix email while still keeping email (gd0t.com)
63 points by eof on April 15, 2012 | 25 comments
26.
Async, embeddable HN share button (github.com/igrigorik)
63 points by igrigorik on April 15, 2012 | 22 comments
27.
Show HN: Working on my wife's idea (puppyshowdown.com)
59 points by IanDrake on April 15, 2012 | 50 comments
28.
Email is not broken, we are. (joshualyman.com)
56 points by ljoshua on April 15, 2012 | 32 comments
29.
How To Make VPNs Even More Secure (torrentfreak.com)
55 points by llambda on April 15, 2012 | 14 comments
30.
The Cancers In The Ruby Community (txustice.me)
53 points by txus on April 15, 2012 | 67 comments

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