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1.		Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin (ubuntu.com)
		411 points by cobychapple on April 26, 2012 \| 298 comments
2.		"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem (motherjones.com)
		278 points by addabjork on April 26, 2012 \| 362 comments
3.		The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168 (thenextweb.com)
		275 points by zackzackzack on April 26, 2012 \| 117 comments
4.		A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 (chrisstucchio.com)
		274 points by uggedal on April 26, 2012 \| 230 comments
5.		If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You (whattofix.com)
		262 points by ubasu on April 26, 2012 \| 106 comments
6.		Functional Programming in C++ (altdevblogaday.com)
		246 points by rcfox on April 26, 2012 \| 43 comments
7.		Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service (curiousrat.com)
		230 points by zachh on April 26, 2012 \| 123 comments
8.		Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg (aperiodical.com)
		227 points by ColinWright on April 26, 2012 \| 28 comments
9.		Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest. (overshard.github.com)
		203 points by overshard on April 26, 2012 \| 50 comments
10.		Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyright Claims (groklaw.net)
		192 points by grellas on April 26, 2012 \| 128 comments
11.		Consider this a job offer to work at 42Floors (42floors.com)
		180 points by jaf12duke on April 26, 2012 \| 106 comments
12.		Ghost.py is a webkit web client written in python (jeanphix.me)
		177 points by davidbrai on April 26, 2012 \| 15 comments
13.		Animated Bézier Curves (jasondavies.com)
		171 points by J3L2404 on April 26, 2012 \| 19 comments
14.		Ask PG: Can you start a HN crowd-funding venture?
		158 points by tstegart on April 26, 2012 \| 82 comments
15.		Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 7 Notes (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
		127 points by michael_nielsen on April 26, 2012 \| 24 comments
16.		RSS will never die (zemanta.com)
		128 points by andraz on April 26, 2012 \| 43 comments
17.		Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later (vice.com)
		125 points by mbrubeck on April 26, 2012 \| 16 comments
18.		The Problem With Marc Andreessen (reuters.com)
		122 points by ctkrohn on April 26, 2012 \| 62 comments
19.		How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B (venturebeat.com)
		112 points by hornokplease on April 26, 2012 \| 38 comments
20.		Counting Pullups (jcs.org)
		109 points by afx2in on April 26, 2012 \| 26 comments
21.		Sugar 50x more potent than total calories in explaining diabetes [video] (uctv.tv)
		102 points by fhoxh on April 26, 2012 \| 79 comments
22.		Show HN: A new A.I. Algorithm for Polygonal Mesh Mazes (petercottle.com)
		101 points by xxbondsxx on April 26, 2012 \| 17 comments
23.		How we made our home page load faster (deskaway.com)
		95 points by skrish on April 26, 2012 \| 37 comments
24.		CISPA Just Got Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote (techdirt.com)
		81 points by llambda on April 26, 2012 \| 11 comments
25.		IPv6 is no longer considered optional (bt.com)
		79 points by thefox on April 26, 2012 \| 58 comments
26.		Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail (boomerangcalendar.com)
		86 points by moah on April 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
27.		How I lost 10% body fat, while launching a startup (and raising kids) (ryanleecarson.tumblr.com)
		78 points by ryancarson on April 26, 2012 \| 99 comments
28.		AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial (parse.com)
		80 points by jamesjyu on April 26, 2012 \| 12 comments
29.		Google SketchUp and Team Being Acquired by Trimble (sketchupdate.blogspot.com)
		70 points by jpastika on April 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
30.		The third industrial revolution (economist.com)
		58 points by icki on April 26, 2012 \| 21 comments
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