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1.		Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app (habitlistapp.com)
		282 points by ggualberto on May 20, 2012 \| 131 comments
2.		I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons (ryanleecarson.tumblr.com)
		252 points by ryancarson on May 20, 2012 \| 93 comments
3.		The world's first HTML5 SIP client (code.google.com)
		217 points by vamsee on May 20, 2012 \| 58 comments
4.		Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account (github.com/goldmansachs)
		209 points by haberdasher on May 20, 2012 \| 106 comments
5.		Satellite killed by trajectory patent (wikipedia.org)
		195 points by frabcus on May 20, 2012 \| 71 comments
6.		Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter (bpython-interpreter.org)
		187 points by llambda on May 20, 2012 \| 74 comments
7.		Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration (worqshop.com)
		183 points by donny on May 20, 2012 \| 73 comments
8.		An Anomaly in the μTorrent network (cert.pl)
		183 points by flux_w42 on May 20, 2012 \| 38 comments
9.		"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome (wikipedia.org)
		146 points by TomAnthony on May 20, 2012 \| 100 comments
10.		Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
		140 points by ruswick on May 20, 2012 \| 51 comments
11.		Fatal Collision Makes Car-Sharing Worries No Longer Theoretical (nytimes.com)
		137 points by branola on May 20, 2012 \| 137 comments
12.		Hacker Typer (hackertyper.com)
		136 points by th0ma5 on May 20, 2012 \| 34 comments
13.		Everything You Wanted To Know About Caching (mnot.net)
		133 points by krat0sprakhar on May 20, 2012 \| 5 comments
14.		Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor (washingtonpost.com)
		119 points by J3L2404 on May 20, 2012 \| 13 comments
15.		From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz (nytimes.com)
		115 points by kanamekun on May 20, 2012 \| 54 comments
16.		SpaceX looks to relaunch Tuesday after reviewing fail data. (plus.google.com)
		109 points by cr4zy on May 20, 2012 \| 14 comments
17.		Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg’s Bible (io9.com)
		102 points by gruseom on May 20, 2012 \| 56 comments
18.		I took Scott Hanselman's advice on productivity, and now look at me... (whiletruecode.com)
		93 points by josh_earl on May 20, 2012 \| 33 comments
19.		New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College (investors.com)
		91 points by samhan on May 20, 2012 \| 109 comments
20.		Visualizing Galois Fields (nklein.com)
		91 points by wglb on May 20, 2012 \| 16 comments
21.		How to find an apartment in San Francisco during the tech boom (jasonevanish.com)
		87 points by jevanish on May 20, 2012 \| 113 comments
22.		How do I get started with Node.js (stackoverflow.com)
		85 points by sparknlaunch12 on May 20, 2012 \| 30 comments
23.		Synergy Aircraft Project (kickstarter.com)
		79 points by amalag on May 20, 2012 \| 52 comments
24.		Show HN: A weekendproject, disposable web chats (mss.gs)
		74 points by deviavir on May 20, 2012 \| 33 comments
25.		Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World (wikipedia.org)
		67 points by T-zex on May 20, 2012 \| 31 comments
26.		Microsoft launches so.cl (so.cl)
		64 points by stdclass on May 20, 2012 \| 77 comments
27.		A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006 (groklaw.net)
		58 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 20, 2012 \| 7 comments
28.		With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul (npr.org)
		56 points by ca98am79 on May 20, 2012 \| 48 comments
29.		Postgresql vs mongodb (pingoured.fr)
		55 points by ibotty on May 20, 2012 \| 50 comments
30.		Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic (chartsnthings.tumblr.com)
		53 points by jashkenas on May 20, 2012 \| 6 comments
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