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1.		Notch's next game is an MMO (0x10c.com)
		532 points by primesuspect on April 3, 2012 \| 245 comments
2.		Love hotels and Unicode (reigndesign.com)
		329 points by gioele on April 3, 2012 \| 54 comments
3.		Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores (rhaas.blogspot.com)
		262 points by chanks on April 3, 2012 \| 107 comments
4.		C.S. Lewis on Writing (lettersofnote.com)
		249 points by taylorbuley on April 3, 2012 \| 65 comments
5.		Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank (projectorpm.com)
		247 points by bdunn on April 3, 2012 \| 83 comments
6.		How my comment on TechCrunch got me a Facebook Cease and Desist (rickstratton.com)
		227 points by racerrick on April 3, 2012 \| 86 comments
7.		Leisure Suit Larry (kickstarter.com)
		226 points by radagaisus on April 3, 2012 \| 139 comments
8.		Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours. (seedlauncher.com)
		194 points by littlegiantcap on April 3, 2012 \| 155 comments
9.		A turning point for GNU libc (lwn.net)
		192 points by corbet on April 3, 2012 \| 86 comments
10.		Instagram for Android — Available Now. (blog.instagram.com)
		190 points by hornokplease on April 3, 2012 \| 156 comments
11.		How Design Works (startupsthisishowdesignworks.com)
		181 points by stevenkovar on April 3, 2012 \| 49 comments
12.		This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program (dadgum.com)
		176 points by DavidChouinard on April 3, 2012 \| 23 comments
13.		In praise of... text files and protocols (jgc.org)
		176 points by jgrahamc on April 3, 2012 \| 88 comments
14.		Math For Programmers (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		167 points by sayemm on April 3, 2012 \| 50 comments
15.		The Rust Programming Language (rust-lang.org)
		145 points by gregnavis on April 3, 2012 \| 126 comments
16.		57 Small Programs that Crash Compilers (regehr.org)
		125 points by hedgehog on April 3, 2012 \| 13 comments
17.		Google Art Project (googleartproject.com)
		126 points by rheide on April 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
18.		Rent time with founders from Parse, Hipmunk, Sincerely and Reddit through Exec (iamexec.com)
		108 points by justin on April 3, 2012 \| 43 comments
19.		How to apologise to your customers (balsamiq.com)
		105 points by revorad on April 3, 2012 \| 27 comments
20.		Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap (ajkochanowicz.github.com)
		104 points by coderdude on April 3, 2012 \| 13 comments
21.		How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator? (techcrunch.com)
		97 points by dko on April 3, 2012 \| 61 comments
22.		Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous (raganwald.posterous.com)
		91 points by bowline_nc on April 3, 2012 \| 41 comments
23.		C++ programming pioneer hacks off-grid, DIY, smart home (faircompanies.com)
		88 points by yason on April 3, 2012 \| 30 comments
24.		Google announces 50 search changes implemented in March (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
		87 points by byrneseyeview on April 3, 2012 \| 42 comments
25.		Rails isn't for beginners (rakeroutes.com)
		86 points by xyzzyb on April 3, 2012 \| 69 comments
26.		Why the Juju Charm Store Will Change the Way You Use Ubuntu Server (jorgecastro.org)
		83 points by _asuk on April 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
27.		Lisp Hackers: Marijn Haverbeke (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)
		83 points by llambda on April 3, 2012 \| 14 comments
28.		Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system (v3.co.uk)
		82 points by noarchy on April 3, 2012 \| 3 comments
29.		New Dropbox API Features: /delta, /copy_ref, OS X SDK (dropbox.com)
		85 points by dwynings on April 3, 2012 \| 21 comments
30.		Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News (nytimes.com)
		83 points by brendannee on April 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
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