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1.		Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest (falkvinge.net)
		267 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 12, 2012 \| 61 comments
2.		Dear StackExchange: Thank You (maxmackie.com)
		234 points by darxius on May 12, 2012 \| 65 comments
3.		Light Table reaches funding goal of $200k (kickstarter.com)
		193 points by kevinalexbrown on May 12, 2012 \| 63 comments
4.		Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each (louisck.net)
		177 points by middus on May 12, 2012 \| 41 comments
5.		Men In Tech (wekeroad.com)
		154 points by raganwald on May 12, 2012 \| 145 comments
6.		Google Shares Experience of Using Ubuntu in their Offices (ubuntuvibes.com)
		151 points by arb99 on May 12, 2012 \| 119 comments
7.		The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You (shkspr.mobi)
		126 points by edent on May 12, 2012 \| 71 comments
8.		The Grammar of Vim (rc3.org)
		125 points by daniel02216 on May 12, 2012 \| 37 comments
9.		Responding to Beggars (stallman.org)
		119 points by solipsist on May 12, 2012 \| 134 comments
10.		Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? (nytimes.com)
		119 points by gruseom on May 12, 2012 \| 139 comments
11.		When Rob Pike first met rms (commandcenter.blogspot.se)
		117 points by willvarfar on May 12, 2012 \| 53 comments
12.		Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript (appjs.org)
		117 points by elliotlai on May 12, 2012 \| 65 comments
13.		Germany's Pirate Party Looks to Win More Seats (bbc.co.uk)
		109 points by ytNumbers on May 12, 2012 \| 61 comments
14.		Automatic programming: write code that writes code (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		107 points by smallhands on May 12, 2012 \| 61 comments
15.		Ask HN: I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked
		107 points by grumpymarketer on May 12, 2012 \| 97 comments
16.		Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (2009) (cnet.com)
		104 points by dgudkov on May 12, 2012 \| 70 comments
17.		Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
		100 points by r4vik on May 12, 2012 \| 14 comments
18.		My History With Forth And Stack Machines (yosefk.com)
		95 points by sehugg on May 12, 2012 \| 11 comments
19.		Portable Ideas (raganwald.posterous.com)
		88 points by llambda on May 12, 2012 \| 44 comments
20.		Reducing bad signup emails with mailcheck.js (andrewberls.com)
		77 points by andrewberls on May 12, 2012 \| 28 comments
21.		Plumbum: Pythonic Shell Combinators (github.com/tomerfiliba)
		76 points by mnazim on May 12, 2012 \| 22 comments
22.		Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup (joel.is)
		80 points by joelg87 on May 12, 2012 \| 16 comments
23.		Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks? (elezea.com)
		73 points by pascal07 on May 12, 2012 \| 36 comments
24.		The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) (dipert.org)
		72 points by progga on May 12, 2012 \| 28 comments
25.		Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Conjecture (scientificamerican.com)
		72 points by suprgeek on May 12, 2012 \| 22 comments
26.		Lessons from torvalds/GitHub commits discussion (technicallyborked.com)
		68 points by normalocity on May 12, 2012 \| 22 comments
27.		The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design (arvinderkang.com)
		64 points by punjsingh on May 12, 2012 \| 50 comments
28.		Learn CSS Selectors interactively (twostepmedia.co.uk)
		60 points by benhowdle89 on May 12, 2012 \| 5 comments
29.		Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular Practice (lifehacker.com)
		56 points by obtino on May 12, 2012 \| 59 comments
30.		Show HN: JSONP - enable cross-domain requests to any JSON API (w/ AJAX) (jit.su)
		51 points by aidanfeldman on May 12, 2012 \| 33 comments
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