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1.		Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. (kalzumeus.com)
		273 points by wglb on April 19, 2012 \| 107 comments
2.		I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How (lifehacker.com)
		258 points by cwan on April 19, 2012 \| 174 comments
3.		The War On RSS (vambenepe.com)
		256 points by mgunes on April 19, 2012 \| 124 comments
4.		FBI seizes riseup.net server (riseup.net)
		253 points by quadrahelix on April 19, 2012 \| 106 comments
5.		HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows (techdirt.com)
		250 points by pavel_lishin on April 19, 2012 \| 176 comments
6.		The origins of the blink HTML element (montulli.org)
		237 points by jacobr on April 19, 2012 \| 66 comments
7.		Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"? (cbsnews.com)
		215 points by shawndumas on April 19, 2012 \| 60 comments
8.		"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link." (prgmr.com)
		217 points by teach on April 19, 2012 \| 92 comments
9.		Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free (diagram.ly)
		210 points by zerop on April 19, 2012 \| 65 comments
10.		AWS Marketplace (amazon.com)
		201 points by psychotik on April 19, 2012 \| 96 comments
11.		Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads (filepicker.io)
		193 points by tagx on April 19, 2012 \| 105 comments
12.		Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize (technologyacademy.fi)
		188 points by tuukkah on April 19, 2012 \| 39 comments
13.		JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster, and with demos (princeton.edu)
		174 points by jterrace on April 19, 2012 \| 44 comments
14.		Heap overflow bug in OpenSSL (grok.org.uk)
		150 points by anthonyb on April 19, 2012 \| 58 comments
15.		Google's Python style guide (googlecode.com)
		130 points by cr4zy on April 19, 2012 \| 86 comments
16.		Google's opening slides in the trial v. Oracle (groklaw.net)
		125 points by experiment0 on April 19, 2012 \| 86 comments
17.		GIMP 2.8: Preview (nicubunu.blogspot.com)
		122 points by vgnet on April 19, 2012 \| 95 comments
18.		Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL (code.google.com)
		121 points by ansman on April 19, 2012 \| 57 comments
19.		We are in a Bubble (sfard.posterous.com)
		115 points by saeidm on April 19, 2012 \| 93 comments
20.		Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development (circa-lang.org)
		116 points by barrybe on April 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
21.		Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Data (joingrouper.com)
		112 points by waxman on April 19, 2012 \| 58 comments
22.		Freak waves spotted from space (2004) (bbc.co.uk)
		101 points by hardik on April 19, 2012 \| 18 comments
23.		Write logic, not mechanics (jeditoolkit.com)
		98 points by vgnet on April 19, 2012 \| 34 comments
24.		You have 404,722 users? Here's what you can do. (makeitslick.tumblr.com)
		97 points by hyacinthe on April 19, 2012 \| 40 comments
25.		‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars (bgr.com)
		92 points by zacharye on April 19, 2012 \| 128 comments
26.		Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites (laktek.com)
		91 points by laktek on April 19, 2012 \| 33 comments
27.		I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well. (time.com)
		85 points by technologizer on April 19, 2012 \| 99 comments
28.		Man protests airport security - naked (komonews.com)
		84 points by pwg on April 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
29.		Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation (techcrunch.com)
		84 points by ssclafani on April 19, 2012 \| 77 comments
30.		WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers (sitepoint.com)
		83 points by leggetter on April 19, 2012 \| 30 comments
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