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1.
Behind The Scenes At Adioso - Part 1: Reality Check (tomhoward.co)
348 points by tomhoward on May 8, 2012 | 64 comments
2.
A set of top Computer Science blogs (drtomcrick.wordpress.com)
293 points by johndcook on May 8, 2012 | 20 comments
3.
Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE (reybango.com)
267 points by cleverjake on May 8, 2012 | 202 comments
4.
55,000 Twitter passwords leaked (airdemon.net)
242 points by gravitronic on May 8, 2012 | 104 comments
5.
Firefox finally plugs the leak (blog.mozilla.org)
227 points by pbiggar on May 8, 2012 | 107 comments
6.
Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library And Model For Collection Processing (clojure.com)
240 points by swannodette on May 8, 2012 | 79 comments
7.
Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH (dwolla.com)
219 points by ScotterC on May 8, 2012 | 116 comments
8.
Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck (techcrunch.com)
209 points by llambda on May 8, 2012 | 67 comments
9.
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record (torrentfreak.com)
183 points by narad on May 8, 2012 | 137 comments
10.
ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank (abc.com)
181 points by seanmccann on May 8, 2012 | 114 comments
11.
We don't support Internet Explorer, and we're calling that a feature (paydirtapp.com)
172 points by doctororange on May 8, 2012 | 157 comments
12.
Improving your (Python) code with modern idioms (python3porting.com)
160 points by rbanffy on May 8, 2012 | 48 comments
13.
I burned out at BigCo. Am I a fool for thinking I can avoid this at a startup?
156 points by thrwwy20120508 on May 8, 2012 | 131 comments
14.
How Google's Self-Driving Car Works (ieee.org)
138 points by ma2rten on May 8, 2012 | 126 comments
15.
Once (nbashaw.com)
119 points by nbashaw on May 8, 2012 | 43 comments
16.
What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software? (stackoverflow.com)
109 points by pooriaazimi on May 8, 2012 | 116 comments
17.
Video streaming & net neutrality (ber.gd)
111 points by dalton on May 8, 2012 | 25 comments
18.
Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs (phoronix.com)
102 points by davux on May 8, 2012 | 71 comments
19.
Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans (heroku.com)
105 points by michaelfairley on May 8, 2012 | 62 comments
20.
Intent Tag Has Landed In Webkit (webkit.org)
99 points by kinlan on May 8, 2012 | 55 comments
21.
Ditch all alerts that aren't actionable (gabrielweinberg.com)
95 points by pathdependent on May 8, 2012 | 26 comments
22.
Looking At The World Through Twitter Data (scripts.mit.edu)
94 points by arashdelijani on May 8, 2012 | 26 comments
23.
Visual design will not fix your broken business (micrypt.com)
92 points by kazey on May 8, 2012 | 48 comments
24.
Learning to Program: Why Python? (udacity.blogspot.ca)
94 points by camlinke on May 8, 2012 | 84 comments
25.
Help the Hacker Dojo by sending them your recruiter spam (hackerdojo.com)
93 points by bluehat on May 8, 2012 | 17 comments
26.
Application Cache Is A Douchebag (alistapart.com)
90 points by mathias on May 8, 2012 | 61 comments
27.
The Brittleness Of Type Hierarchies (codegrunt.co.uk)
88 points by singular on May 8, 2012 | 73 comments
28.
PyPy Status Blog - STM update: back to threads? (morepypy.blogspot.com)
87 points by craigkerstiens on May 8, 2012 | 6 comments
29.
A conversation with Alan Kay (2004) (ic.ac.uk)
81 points by gdubs on May 8, 2012 | 10 comments
30.
“Why I Declined An Offer To Work At Instagram” Via Quora (techcrunch.com)
80 points by lambtron on May 8, 2012 | 35 comments

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