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1.
Why Use Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)
269 points by craigkerstiens on April 30, 2012 | 144 comments
2.
High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs (bbc.co.uk)
253 points by udp on April 30, 2012 | 214 comments
3.
Secure Shell chrome (killer) app (chrome.google.com)
238 points by cgs1019 on April 30, 2012 | 170 comments
4.
Hacking The iPod: How I Earned $65K In High School (teddy.is)
215 points by ted0 on April 30, 2012 | 55 comments
5.
Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes (padmapper.com)
214 points by ericd on April 30, 2012 | 77 comments
6.
Startups Are Bands for Hackers (petersobot.com)
202 points by psobot on April 30, 2012 | 83 comments
7.
Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T (github.com/kien)
196 points by nwjsmith on April 30, 2012 | 95 comments
8.
Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex] (github.com/afriggeri)
166 points by friggeri on April 30, 2012 | 67 comments
9.
The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness (fastcompany.com)
147 points by philk10 on April 30, 2012 | 147 comments
10.
Groupon Plunges as Board Members Reportedly Leaving (thestreet.com)
142 points by antr on April 30, 2012 | 88 comments
11.
How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids (forbes.com/sites/alexknapp)
143 points by mirceagoia on April 30, 2012 | 84 comments
12.
I'm leaving the Internet for a year (theverge.com)
139 points by Braasch on April 30, 2012 | 106 comments
13.
Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue to Show (theatlantic.com)
137 points by evo_9 on April 30, 2012 | 91 comments
14.
Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSON (plus.google.com)
130 points by mmastrac on April 30, 2012 | 100 comments
15.
Rob Pike - Unix trivia (plus.google.com)
126 points by scdeepak on April 30, 2012 | 13 comments
16.
OO JS in 15mins or Less (beardedocto.tumblr.com)
122 points by mdgrech23 on April 30, 2012 | 33 comments
17.
SpaceX test firing the Falcon 9 (spacex.com)
114 points by mladenkovacevic on April 30, 2012 | 43 comments
18.
MS: announcing Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile. (msdn.com)
109 points by shinvee on April 30, 2012 | 36 comments
19.
11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels, & scrapped designs (kickstarter.com)
109 points by mecredis on April 30, 2012 | 12 comments
20.
Per Vices (YC W12) Sets Out To Disrupt Wireless Communications (techcrunch.com)
99 points by dwynings on April 30, 2012 | 22 comments
21.
Lessons of JSON (inkdroid.org)
97 points by bpierre on April 30, 2012 | 32 comments
22.
Java creator James Gosling: 'Google totally slimed Sun' (cnet.com)
97 points by protomyth on April 30, 2012 | 104 comments
23.
The evolution of Lua (tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
92 points by shawndumas on April 30, 2012 | 68 comments
24.
Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email (fuscata.com)
83 points by lkrubner on April 30, 2012 | 85 comments
25.
The Startup Resume (justinkan.com)
83 points by dwynings on April 30, 2012 | 35 comments
26.
Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)
80 points by snambi on April 30, 2012 | 74 comments
27.
Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch (firmhouse.com)
79 points by MrMcDowall on April 30, 2012 | 22 comments
28.
Sign up in seconds...and then what? (37signals.com)
74 points by pathdependent on April 30, 2012 | 18 comments
29.
Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made (nytimes.com)
72 points by mattewing on April 30, 2012 | 40 comments
30.
The Data Journalism Handbook is now live (visualisingdata.com)
68 points by wdavidturner on April 30, 2012 | 2 comments

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