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1.		Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks (time.com)
		279 points by kiba on April 16, 2011 \| 214 comments
2.		Show HN: made a html5 game, polished it many many times (hotbazooka.com)
		211 points by bazookaBen on April 16, 2011 \| 114 comments
3.		Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter (scobleizer.com)
		208 points by creativityhurts on April 16, 2011 \| 49 comments
4.		Square's Disruptive Payment Service About to Get A Huge Retail Boost from Apple (techcrunch.com)
		162 points by Jsarokin on April 16, 2011 \| 70 comments
5.		How Bitcoin Works (bitcoin.it)
		156 points by kam on April 16, 2011 \| 50 comments
6.		Ask HN: how to become a morning person?
		153 points by zxcvvcxz on April 16, 2011 \| 101 comments
7.		If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?
		127 points by solarmist on April 16, 2011 \| 136 comments
8.		A Patently Obvious Problem (nytimes.com)
		107 points by petethomas on April 16, 2011 \| 33 comments
9.		RFC 2468 - I remember IANA (jacquesmattheij.com)
		100 points by ColinWright on April 16, 2011 \| 3 comments
10.		Conway's Game of Life Extrusion (qotile.net)
		94 points by brunoc on April 16, 2011 \| 29 comments
11.		You Don't Know JavaScript (w2lessons.com)
		94 points by mwbiz on April 16, 2011 \| 38 comments
12.		Khan Academy Redesign (shipordie.com)
		90 points by woan on April 16, 2011 \| 20 comments
13.		Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
		78 points by gammarator on April 16, 2011 \| 42 comments
14.		Google Video shutting down, disabling public downloads on April 29 (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by ivank on April 16, 2011 \| 37 comments
15.		1st draft of R7RS small language available (all changes listed on linked page) (groups.google.com)
		71 points by tizoc on April 16, 2011 \| 12 comments
16.		What math (and programming) teachers should know about memory (republicofmath.com)
		69 points by ColinWright on April 16, 2011 \| 13 comments
17.		Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS (arstechnica.com)
		64 points by evo_9 on April 16, 2011 \| 23 comments
18.		My experience outsourcing manufacturing to China (trekdek.wordpress.com)
		61 points by dmd149 on April 16, 2011 \| 27 comments
19.		Hating on Candyland: Why most games for kids are awful (kidsdungeonadventure.com)
		54 points by bengarvey on April 16, 2011 \| 61 comments
20.		JQuery: Official Plugins - A Change in the Roadmap (jquery.com)
		53 points by flardinois on April 16, 2011 \| 1 comment
21.		Ask PG: Can we see karma on Ask HN comments?
		49 points by ibejoeb on April 16, 2011 \| 1 comment
22.		Modules Matter Most (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
		47 points by ottbot on April 16, 2011 \| 26 comments
23.		Jeff Bezos's 1997 Letter to Amazon.com Shareholders (files.wordpress.com)
		45 points by collistaeed on April 16, 2011 \| 7 comments
24.		List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup (kevinohashi.com)
		43 points by ohashi on April 16, 2011 \| 32 comments
25.		Ask HN: Does anyone else misread the 'time since comment' as karma now?
		43 points by kaisdavis on April 16, 2011 \| 11 comments
26.		What is the truth behind "9 out of 10 startups fail"? (quora.com)
		44 points by wh-uws on April 16, 2011 \| 17 comments
27.		What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry Page (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by solipsist on April 16, 2011 \| 30 comments
28.		The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom) (raikoth.net)
		41 points by vegai on April 16, 2011 \| 18 comments
29.		Exploring Rails 3.1 - ActiveModel::SecurePassword (bcardarella.com)
		39 points by there on April 16, 2011 \| 15 comments
30.		Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5″ announcement (diveintomark.org)
		40 points by st3fan on April 16, 2011 \| 25 comments
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