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1.		Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle (plus.google.com)
		494 points by vibrunazo on May 16, 2012 \| 112 comments
2.		Pretty RFC (pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com)
		453 points by knowtheory on May 16, 2012 \| 72 comments
3.		Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs (humblesoftware.com)
		315 points by gourneau on May 16, 2012 \| 59 comments
4.		Google's Code Editor (docs.google.com)
		303 points by obilgic on May 16, 2012 \| 85 comments
5.		Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		284 points by rryan on May 16, 2012 \| 139 comments
6.		The Bastards Book of Ruby (bastardsbook.com)
		227 points by J3L2404 on May 16, 2012 \| 36 comments
7.		The First Time I Used Programming At Work (justinkan.com)
		222 points by maccman on May 16, 2012 \| 85 comments
8.		The 10k Bootstrap Challenge (bootstrapchallenge.com)
		200 points by alexandros on May 16, 2012 \| 78 comments
9.		Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality (nationaljournal.com)
		189 points by spenrose on May 16, 2012 \| 223 comments
10.		Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message (facebook.com)
		158 points by mayneack on May 16, 2012 \| 120 comments
11.		Goodbye, MongoDB (zopyx.de)
		144 points by zedr on May 16, 2012 \| 122 comments
12.		Europe's Square (izettle.com)
		143 points by jordanbrown on May 16, 2012 \| 100 comments
13.		Multiple Django and Flask Sites with Nginx and uWSGI Emperor (tghw.com)
		142 points by tghw on May 16, 2012 \| 26 comments
14.		How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit (theatlantic.com)
		135 points by sasvari on May 16, 2012 \| 68 comments
15.		To boldly go where Node man has gone before (jgc.org)
		131 points by jgrahamc on May 16, 2012 \| 115 comments
16.		Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site (swapped.cc)
		130 points by latitude on May 16, 2012 \| 30 comments
17.		How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' (rollingstone.com)
		124 points by ahmadss on May 16, 2012 \| 96 comments
18.		Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How'd They Do? (npr.org)
		110 points by iProject on May 16, 2012 \| 76 comments
19.		The love and hate of Node.js (mailinator.blogspot.com)
		110 points by zinxq on May 16, 2012 \| 88 comments
20.		Why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance. (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
		96 points by pron on May 16, 2012 \| 39 comments
21.		Say hello to the real real-time Web (arstechnica.com)
		94 points by mayop100 on May 16, 2012 \| 23 comments
22.		How I Went From 0 to $50k on the App Store(s) (entrelife.com)
		92 points by clarky07 on May 16, 2012 \| 18 comments
23.		Kicksend (YC S11) goes free. Send unlimited files to anyone. (venturebeat.com)
		93 points by brendanlim on May 16, 2012 \| 56 comments
24.		Online algorithmic event detection from realtime mobile photos (teleportd.com)
		81 points by spolu on May 16, 2012 \| 21 comments
25.		Emacsy, an embeddable Emacs (kickstarter.com)
		77 points by krakensden on May 16, 2012 \| 34 comments
26.		Comparing quality of films in the iTunes & Netflix libraries (goodfil.ms)
		79 points by johnb on May 16, 2012 \| 37 comments
27.		How to build a location-based hybrid mobile app with reverse geocoding (trigger.io)
		77 points by amirnathoo on May 16, 2012 \| 7 comments
28.		Is there a point to paginating articles online? (ux.stackexchange.com)
		74 points by ivoflipse on May 16, 2012 \| 47 comments
29.		Shout Out to the Server Teams (stevestreza.com)
		73 points by siglesias on May 16, 2012 \| 37 comments
30.		Paris & Berlin – The tale of two cities (Part 1: The facts you can’t ignore) (rudebaguette.com)
		67 points by RudeBaguette on May 16, 2012 \| 53 comments
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