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31.		How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I (computerworlduk.com)
		76 points by strawberryshake on April 17, 2012 \| 6 comments
32.		Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? (thetrichordist.wordpress.com)
		71 points by pie on April 17, 2012 \| 37 comments
33.		IPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) (bloomberg.com)
		72 points by nuromancer on April 17, 2012 \| 58 comments
34.		Node Streams: How do they work? (maxogden.com)
		72 points by bpierre on April 17, 2012 \| 15 comments
35.		U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight (reuters.com)
		66 points by cypherpunks01 on April 17, 2012 \| 85 comments
36.		Google's Opening Statement - Language is free (wired.com)
		67 points by hluska on April 17, 2012 \| 29 comments
37.		Entrepreneurship's Dirty Little Secret (kernelmag.com)
		63 points by zg on April 17, 2012 \| 52 comments
38.		Megaupload Worked On A Multi-Billion Dollar IPO (torrentfreak.com)
		63 points by llambda on April 17, 2012 \| 18 comments
39.		Codecademy - how not to do a redesign (michalbures.com)
		59 points by MichalBures on April 17, 2012 \| 50 comments
40.		A Call for Google+ to Enable Posting via its API (intigi.com)
		59 points by mjfern on April 17, 2012 \| 59 comments
41.		NASA holds a contest for programmers who can improve access to its data archives (arstechnica.com)
		59 points by nsns on April 17, 2012 \| 17 comments
42.		Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use every day (beyondfog.com)
		55 points by niall_ohiggins on April 17, 2012 \| 11 comments
43.		MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt (torrentfreak.com)
		54 points by chacham15 on April 17, 2012 \| 3 comments
44.		Chrome For Android Update (chrome.blogspot.com)
		54 points by avsaro on April 17, 2012 \| 12 comments
45.		695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB (voltdb.com)
		53 points by dscape on April 17, 2012 \| 40 comments
46.		YouTube Strategy: Adding Jitter Isn't A Bug (highscalability.com)
		49 points by yarapavan on April 17, 2012 \| 11 comments
47.		Lessons Learned Upgrading Harvest to Ruby 1.9.3 (getharvest.com)
		47 points by thibaut_barrere on April 17, 2012 \| 10 comments
48.		Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology (muonlab.com)
		46 points by australis on April 17, 2012 \| 10 comments
49.		Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: I don't know if Java is free (cnet.com)
		45 points by donretag on April 17, 2012 \| 57 comments
50.		We need more native code (poincare101.herokuapp.com)
		44 points by dhaivatpandya on April 17, 2012 \| 43 comments
51.		The unforgivable heresy of Sheryl Sandberg (itworld.com)
		43 points by bdking on April 17, 2012 \| 21 comments
52.		Taxes Prompt More Americans to Renounce Citizenship (cnbc.com)
		42 points by stfu on April 17, 2012 \| 46 comments
53.		Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals: middle age (washingtonpost.com)
		41 points by jamesbritt on April 17, 2012 \| 10 comments
54.		Julian Assange Starts Talk Show On Russian TV (nytimes.com)
		41 points by joejohnson on April 17, 2012 \| 17 comments
55.		$100k per month running Drop-Ship product websites (reddit.com)
		40 points by instakill on April 17, 2012 \| 3 comments
56.		Cassini successfully flies over Enceladus (phys.org)
		38 points by DiabloD3 on April 17, 2012 \| 5 comments
57.		Pebble smartwatch breaks record for Kickstarter funding (bbc.co.uk)
		38 points by anons2011 on April 17, 2012 \| 27 comments
58.		Japanese Conveys Information More Slowly Than Other Languages (dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.co.u...)
		36 points by fogus on April 17, 2012 \| 45 comments
59.		Congress ending privacy with CISPA? Fight back with TMI (congresstmi.org)
		34 points by sethbannon on April 17, 2012 \| 6 comments
60.		Seattle Rex vs. Apple: The Verdict Is In (seattlerex.com)
		33 points by Cadsby on April 17, 2012 \| 2 comments
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