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1.
Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps? (maps.google.com)
455 points by loucal on March 31, 2012 | 105 comments
2.
Confessions of a car salesman (edmunds.com)
225 points by nashequilibrium on March 31, 2012 | 60 comments
3.
Charlie Stross on Girls Around Me (antipope.org)
215 points by bigiain on March 31, 2012 | 104 comments
4.
5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))*cos(30*((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))) (google.com)
207 points by sajithdilshan on March 31, 2012 | 13 comments
5.
Spooning by bitbucket (bitbucket.org/spooning)
199 points by _tfee on March 31, 2012 | 28 comments
6.
Learn to read a binary font by reading a story (dotsies.org)
196 points by trogdoro on March 31, 2012 | 128 comments
7.
Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns. (42floors.com)
151 points by jaf12duke on March 31, 2012 | 124 comments
8.
Y Combinator here I come (novelog.com)
128 points by thatusertwo on March 31, 2012 | 65 comments
9.
Is Agile Stifling Introverts? (infoq.com)
128 points by nickmain on March 31, 2012 | 84 comments
10.
Douglas Crockford on Fat Arrow Functions in JavaScript (yuiblog.com)
126 points by jashkenas on March 31, 2012 | 60 comments
11.
Dead Programmers Aren't Much Fun (whattofix.com)
124 points by cnolden on March 31, 2012 | 41 comments
12.
The truth about Scala (cakesolutions.net)
121 points by janm399 on March 31, 2012 | 85 comments
13.
Adobe Releases Last Linux Version Of Flash Player (ubuntuvibes.com)
120 points by wyclif on March 31, 2012 | 71 comments
14.
The Missing 20th Century: How copyright protection makes books vanish (theatlantic.com)
113 points by bootload on March 31, 2012 | 34 comments
15.
Why Groupon is poised for collapse (venturebeat.com)
101 points by zoowar on March 31, 2012 | 24 comments
16.
French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales (torrentfreak.com)
98 points by jghefner on March 31, 2012 | 56 comments
17.
Disband the TSA now (nat.org)
96 points by bigiain on March 31, 2012 | 12 comments
18.
In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping (nytimes.com)
91 points by asnyder on March 31, 2012 | 106 comments
19.
Rails 3.2.3 has been released (rubyonrails.org)
87 points by timewasted on March 31, 2012 | 12 comments
20.
The shocking toll of hardware and software fragmentation on Android development (thenextweb.com)
84 points by j_col on March 31, 2012 | 83 comments
21.
Today is World Backup Day (worldbackupday.com)
81 points by _oofb on March 31, 2012 | 63 comments
22.
Here Are The Women of Y Combinator And They Are Awesome (techcrunch.com)
78 points by canistr on March 31, 2012 | 75 comments
23.
Baby Boomers: We had it all, and still do. (theglobeandmail.com)
76 points by bishnu on March 31, 2012 | 50 comments
24.
Ask HN: This is my first open-source project. Feedback? (github.com/michaelochurch)
69 points by michaelochurch on March 31, 2012 | 25 comments
25.
Why Can't Startups Find Designers? (thenextweb.com)
65 points by sgdesign on March 31, 2012 | 65 comments
26.
Perpetual Ocean by NASA [video] (youtu.be)
54 points by DeusExMachina on March 31, 2012 | 13 comments
27.
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK (thenextweb.com)
52 points by cgshaw on March 31, 2012 | 23 comments
28.
Automatically calibrating a computer projector image (dalpix.com)
52 points by ranit8 on March 31, 2012 | 8 comments
29.
How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest (raymondcamden.com)
47 points by Garbage on March 31, 2012 | 24 comments
30.
Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB) (postmarkapp.com)
46 points by cemerick on March 31, 2012 | 18 comments

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