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1.
Welcome To Life (tomscott.com)
545 points by ryannielsen on May 14, 2012 | 183 comments
2.
The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon (blogmaverick.com)
339 points by dwynings on May 14, 2012 | 292 comments
3.
VLC has been downloaded over a billion times (videolan.org)
321 points by m_for_monkey on May 14, 2012 | 105 comments
4.
Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails (targeterapp.com)
239 points by heroic on May 14, 2012 | 159 comments
5.
We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review (pskl.us)
225 points by adulau on May 14, 2012 | 81 comments
6.
Perian is shutting down (perian.org)
212 points by BenSS on May 14, 2012 | 63 comments
7.
Turn anything into a videogame controller, even a banana (kickstarter.com)
209 points by verganileonardo on May 14, 2012 | 25 comments
8.
Wozniak calls for open Apple (itnews.com.au)
188 points by jacobr on May 14, 2012 | 149 comments
9.
How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup (tested.com)
169 points by trevin on May 14, 2012 | 75 comments
10.
Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers
160 points by georgespencer on May 14, 2012 | 130 comments
11.
Python Web Programming (python.org)
152 points by plessthanpt05 on May 14, 2012 | 54 comments
12.
Experimental Page Layout Inspired By Flipboard (tympanus.net)
151 points by tambourine_man on May 14, 2012 | 51 comments
13.
Why can you turn clothing right-side-out? (math.stackexchange.com)
145 points by ivoflipse on May 14, 2012 | 33 comments
14.
Are Stanford Students Just (Really Excellent) Sheep? (stanford.edu)
142 points by schmico on May 14, 2012 | 167 comments
15.
Schemaverse: MMO entirely in Postgres (schemaverse.com)
140 points by willlll on May 14, 2012 | 28 comments
16.
Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript (grantgalitz.org)
128 points by kmax12 on May 14, 2012 | 32 comments
17.
Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump (bu.mp)
131 points by timdoug on May 14, 2012 | 131 comments
18.
Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content (aws.typepad.com)
124 points by jeffbarr on May 14, 2012 | 60 comments
19.
(Some) ORM haters do get it (revision-zero.org)
116 points by blambeau on May 14, 2012 | 105 comments
20.
The Dictator's practical Internet guide to power retention (pwd.io)
110 points by euphemize on May 14, 2012 | 34 comments
21.
Easel.ly - A nice HTML 5 infographics editor (easel.ly)
107 points by mg on May 14, 2012 | 58 comments
22.
Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue (techcrunch.com)
110 points by dmor on May 14, 2012 | 60 comments
23.
The average Greek is working a full 40% longer than the average German (bbc.co.uk)
103 points by antonellis on May 14, 2012 | 144 comments
24.
Chrome supports TCP & UDP sockets (alexmaccaw.com)
104 points by maccman on May 14, 2012 | 32 comments
25.
git playback (codingfearlessly.com)
100 points by mmozuras on May 14, 2012 | 35 comments
26.
GPU accelerated arrays for Haskell (justtesting.org)
100 points by dons on May 14, 2012 | 5 comments
27.
London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor (theverge.com)
96 points by ValentineC on May 14, 2012 | 94 comments
28.
Giving.github.com (giving.github.com)
89 points by Garbage on May 14, 2012 | 23 comments
29.
Peter Thiel's unexpected job requirement (cnn.com)
85 points by cwan on May 14, 2012 | 59 comments
30.
Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet (theverge.com)
75 points by pwg on May 14, 2012 | 34 comments

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