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1.		Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment (browserquest.mozilla.org)
		468 points by guigui on March 27, 2012 \| 106 comments
2.		A Pinterest spammer tells all (dailydot.com)
		348 points by taylorbuley on March 27, 2012 \| 115 comments
3.		Turning down Zynga: Why I opted out of the $210M Omgpop buy (gamasutra.com)
		340 points by newobj on March 27, 2012 \| 113 comments
4.		Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you (woodcutmaps.com)
		307 points by aaronharnly on March 27, 2012 \| 81 comments
5.		How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls (gun.io)
		306 points by Mizza on March 27, 2012 \| 20 comments
6.		The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades (wilshipley.com)
		232 points by mynameisraj on March 27, 2012 \| 122 comments
7.		Red Hat becomes the first open source company to amass a billion dollars (zenoss.com)
		227 points by aritraghosh007 on March 27, 2012 \| 48 comments
8.		Coding Horror: The End of Pagination (codinghorror.com)
		221 points by duaneb on March 27, 2012 \| 118 comments
9.		10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the £10 Note (theatlantic.com)
		209 points by NoBorders on March 27, 2012 \| 36 comments
10.		One Drug to Shrink All Tumors (news.sciencemag.org)
		187 points by ph0rque on March 27, 2012 \| 51 comments
11.		ZeroRPC (github.com/dotcloud)
		182 points by m0th87 on March 27, 2012 \| 32 comments
12.		No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more. (codinghorror.com)
		169 points by macco on March 27, 2012 \| 58 comments
13.		The Psychology of Tackling Hard Problems (davidvaldman.com)
		155 points by dmvaldman on March 27, 2012 \| 51 comments
14.		The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of (nytimes.com)
		156 points by emmanuelory on March 27, 2012 \| 39 comments
15.		Attention to Detail (martinsnyder.net)
		153 points by jbellis on March 27, 2012 \| 30 comments
16.		IOS design: a case study (slideshare.net)
		153 points by Wolfr on March 27, 2012 \| 21 comments
17.		Bayes nets by example with Python and Khan Academy data (derandomized.com)
		139 points by kohlmeier on March 27, 2012 \| 9 comments
18.		Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers (infosecinstitute.com)
		132 points by voodoochilo on March 27, 2012 \| 59 comments
19.		Subsecond Offset Visualizations: Unusual patterns from cloud computing (dtrace.org)
		102 points by brendangregg on March 27, 2012 \| 5 comments
20.		BrowserQuest– a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment (hacks.mozilla.org)
		95 points by paulrouget on March 27, 2012 \| 29 comments
21.		Basho Unveils New Cloud Storage Software: Riak CS (basho.com)
		89 points by tsantero on March 27, 2012 \| 27 comments
22.		Bill Gates: We need crazy energy entrepreneurs (gigaom.com)
		88 points by suprgeek on March 27, 2012 \| 48 comments
23.		86 years old lens hacked onto 5DMKII (todaystomorrow.tumblr.com)
		86 points by rainboiboi on March 27, 2012 \| 19 comments
24.		Google Drive: Finally coming this April (gigaom.com)
		82 points by taylorbuley on March 27, 2012 \| 64 comments
25.		Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day (play-fame.com)
		81 points by dclaysmith on March 27, 2012 \| 50 comments
26.		Even Non-Techies Aim to Learn the Internet’s Language (nytimes.com)
		77 points by branola on March 27, 2012 \| 25 comments
27.		Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second (cnn.com)
		76 points by processing on March 27, 2012 \| 47 comments
28.		The Histogram as the Image (ironicsans.com)
		74 points by tambourine_man on March 27, 2012 \| 3 comments
29.		Rookies in the Bike Shed (heinemeierhansson.com)
		74 points by jashkenas on March 27, 2012 \| 41 comments
30.		Kevin Korb's Jokes: Care and Feeding of Your Hacker (sanitarium.net)
		71 points by jacquesm on March 27, 2012 \| 16 comments
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