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1.		Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era (codinghorror.com)
		336 points by kreutz on March 19, 2012 \| 292 comments
2.		Git project seeks discussion on "push" change (lwn.net)
		326 points by taylorbuley on March 19, 2012 \| 83 comments
3.		60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video] (cbsnews.com)
		310 points by pbreit on March 19, 2012 \| 116 comments
4.		Go is amazing, period. (poincare101.blogspot.com)
		271 points by dhaivatpandya on March 19, 2012 \| 231 comments
5.		Why is the DOS path character "\"? (msdn.com)
		269 points by thibaut_barrere on March 19, 2012 \| 66 comments
6.		Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views (square.github.com)
		263 points by mbostock on March 19, 2012 \| 42 comments
7.		The one interview question I always ask (codercofounder.wordpress.com)
		256 points by ibagrak on March 19, 2012 \| 201 comments
8.		Why I Don't Want to Learn Go (arantaday.com)
		212 points by dwwoelfel on March 19, 2012 \| 137 comments
9.		Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program (apple.com)
		199 points by ssclafani on March 19, 2012 \| 176 comments
10.		Mysterious giant objects discovered in center of our galaxy (nasa.gov)
		189 points by Mitt on March 19, 2012 \| 19 comments
11.		Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?’ (openculture.com)
		184 points by jamesbritt on March 19, 2012 \| 107 comments
12.		James Cameron's entirely new submarine (nytimes.com)
		181 points by terhechte on March 19, 2012 \| 65 comments
13.		Don't use bcrypt (unlimitednovelty.com)
		177 points by bascule on March 19, 2012 \| 188 comments
14.		Try and view the source (kurlak.com)
		168 points by ohashi on March 19, 2012 \| 79 comments
15.		Why I like lots of languages, and Go is pretty neat too (dhconnelly.com)
		165 points by manveru on March 19, 2012 \| 33 comments
16.		Graphene supercapacitors are 20x as powerful, can be made with a DVD burner (extremetech.com)
		162 points by evo_9 on March 19, 2012 \| 70 comments
17.		Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million (zdnet.com)
		151 points by LiveTheDream on March 19, 2012 \| 42 comments
18.		Show HN: Meme generator for hipsters (pinwords.com)
		146 points by henryl on March 19, 2012 \| 46 comments
19.		CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing (arstechnica.com)
		143 points by GreekOphion on March 19, 2012 \| 50 comments
20.		Google bans reddit client from Play Store for "sexually explicit material" (reddit.com)
		144 points by veeti on March 19, 2012 \| 88 comments
21.		PHP source code now hosted on Github (github.com/php)
		138 points by birken on March 19, 2012 \| 14 comments
22.		Slavery's last stronghold (cnn.com)
		124 points by soundsop on March 19, 2012 \| 102 comments
23.		SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station (wired.com)
		113 points by bcl on March 19, 2012 \| 24 comments
24.		Draw Something craze 'banks dev $100k per day' (develop-online.net)
		105 points by mwilcox on March 19, 2012 \| 48 comments
25.		Pay your employees more (newyorker.com)
		105 points by bicknergseng on March 19, 2012 \| 21 comments
26.		DuQu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing (wired.com)
		101 points by jaryd on March 19, 2012 \| 35 comments
27.		Google Defends Hotfile in Court (torrentfreak.com)
		96 points by MCompeau on March 19, 2012 \| 17 comments
28.		Linux 3.3 released (lkml.org)
		94 points by thenextcorner on March 19, 2012 \| 14 comments
29.		Why Mozilla will support H.264 on OS that comes with it (hacks.mozilla.org)
		90 points by lillycat on March 19, 2012 \| 41 comments
30.		42Floors (YC W12) Launches Commercial Real Estate Search Tool (betakit.com)
		89 points by erin_bury on March 19, 2012 \| 30 comments
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