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1.		Defining Property (paulgraham.com)
		551 points by anateus on March 12, 2012 \| 299 comments
2.		Paypal Does it Again (regretsy.com)
		486 points by cwan on March 12, 2012 \| 149 comments
3.		A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children (smashingmagazine.com)
		463 points by pascal07 on March 12, 2012 \| 192 comments
4.		Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions (sendthemyourmoney.com)
		384 points by staunch on March 12, 2012 \| 131 comments
5.		Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity (sridattalabs.com)
		299 points by sthatipamala on March 12, 2012 \| 67 comments
6.		The freedom to drink coffee (raganwald.posterous.com)
		282 points by llambda on March 12, 2012 \| 190 comments
7.		Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90% (joingrouper.com)
		277 points by waxman on March 12, 2012 \| 42 comments
8.		Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute (metricfire.com)
		238 points by tbh on March 12, 2012 \| 127 comments
9.		A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop (geek.com)
		225 points by ukdm on March 12, 2012 \| 247 comments
10.		Show HN: I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices (github.com/csswizardry)
		223 points by csswizardry on March 12, 2012 \| 86 comments
11.		Mathematics for Computer Science (princeton.edu)
		204 points by epenn on March 12, 2012 \| 23 comments
12.		Peter Norvig: Tweaking Bayes' Theorem (dzone.com)
		179 points by stagga_lee on March 12, 2012 \| 35 comments
13.		Lisp Machines (patrickcollison.com)
		141 points by apgwoz on March 12, 2012 \| 80 comments
14.		JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil" (dzone.com)
		138 points by friendlytuna on March 12, 2012 \| 70 comments
15.		Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform For Game Hosting (techcrunch.com)
		131 points by whatupdave on March 12, 2012 \| 45 comments
16.		CSS px is an Angular Measurement (inamidst.com)
		129 points by ned on March 12, 2012 \| 60 comments
17.		Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs (groups.google.com)
		127 points by gcp on March 12, 2012 \| 73 comments
18.		Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice (extremetech.com)
		126 points by mrsebastian on March 12, 2012 \| 33 comments
19.		From Miserable Launch to Decent Success in 3 Months, Thanks to Hacker News (stangeek.com)
		120 points by stangeek on March 12, 2012 \| 40 comments
20.		The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		112 points by abyx on March 12, 2012 \| 40 comments
21.		Why does Posix have recursive mutexes? Because of a dare. (groups.google.com)
		111 points by signa11 on March 12, 2012 \| 14 comments
22.		CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million + (thenextweb.com)
		110 points by kunle on March 12, 2012 \| 52 comments
23.		Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement (allthingsd.com)
		105 points by knappster on March 12, 2012 \| 61 comments
24.		Kickstarter for Science (petridish.org)
		101 points by azazo on March 12, 2012 \| 11 comments
25.		Bootstrap 2.0.2 released (markdotto.com)
		99 points by tilt on March 12, 2012 \| 17 comments
26.		Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results (highscalability.com)
		99 points by yarapavan on March 12, 2012 \| 20 comments
27.		Adding a new statement to Python (thegreenplace.net)
		100 points by motter on March 12, 2012 \| 14 comments
28.		The day Bill Gates called me rude — and other lessons in user experience (jacksonfish.com)
		91 points by hillel on March 12, 2012 \| 47 comments
29.		Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks. (stashmarks.com)
		88 points by bwm on March 12, 2012 \| 60 comments
30.		New York City Subpoenas Twitter For Occupy Wall Street Protester Data (readwriteweb.com)
		78 points by johnpaultitlow on March 12, 2012 \| 36 comments
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