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1.		SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT) (spacex.com)
		370 points by alex1 on May 22, 2012 \| 206 comments
2.		The future is specific (chris-granger.com)
		346 points by olauzon on May 22, 2012 \| 135 comments
3.		Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car (hackaday.com)
		300 points by jcubic on May 22, 2012 \| 100 comments
4.		WebGL: 80,000 particles (minimal.be)
		275 points by siavash on May 22, 2012 \| 82 comments
5.		Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes (grist.org)
		271 points by mkopinsky on May 22, 2012 \| 133 comments
6.		A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1) (chromium.org)
		253 points by tkazec on May 22, 2012 \| 78 comments
7.		Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow (yahoo.com)
		217 points by larrys on May 22, 2012 \| 88 comments
8.		Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		196 points by JOfferijns on May 22, 2012 \| 139 comments
9.		Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz (pandodaily.com)
		187 points by dylanvee on May 22, 2012 \| 124 comments
10.		California Senate votes to allow self-driving cars (mercurynews.com)
		179 points by nextstep on May 22, 2012 \| 105 comments
11.		Show HN: Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee (coderscoffee.com)
		180 points by hongquan on May 22, 2012 \| 100 comments
12.		VIA launches $49 Android PC (geek.com)
		170 points by 11031a on May 22, 2012 \| 106 comments
13.		A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity With Signed Commits (mikegerwitz.com)
		163 points by mikegerwitz on May 22, 2012 \| 44 comments
14.		SpaceX Launches Capsule on Historic Space Station Trip (space.com)
		159 points by Anon84 on May 22, 2012 \| 11 comments
15.		Of abusive behavior in programming communities (manxome.org)
		156 points by symkat on May 22, 2012 \| 73 comments
16.		Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 trillion USD (buildtheenterprise.org)
		154 points by oconnor0 on May 22, 2012 \| 123 comments
17.		Open-sourcing Stylo (alexmaccaw.com)
		156 points by maccman on May 22, 2012 \| 28 comments
18.		Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination (allthingsd.com)
		146 points by protomyth on May 22, 2012 \| 96 comments
19.		Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous (io9.com)
		134 points by jamesbritt on May 22, 2012 \| 29 comments
20.		JRuby Core Team Members Moving to Red Hat (rubyinside.com)
		113 points by petercooper on May 22, 2012 \| 4 comments
21.		Dokuen - A Personal Heroku (github.com/peterkeen)
		113 points by michael_fine on May 22, 2012 \| 13 comments
22.		Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice (anonnews.org)
		104 points by Kenan on May 22, 2012 \| 31 comments
23.		Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc (haufler.org)
		100 points by shaufler on May 22, 2012 \| 119 comments
24.		Facebook shares hit again as valuation doubts rise (reuters.com)
		92 points by liuwei6 on May 22, 2012 \| 57 comments
25.		The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours (sachagreif.com)
		87 points by sgdesign on May 22, 2012 \| 29 comments
26.		Show HN: shortcutFoo is an effective way to learn shortcuts (Vim, TextMate, etc) (shortcutfoo.com)
		86 points by watterssn on May 22, 2012 \| 35 comments
27.		Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem (nick.typepad.com)
		84 points by breischl on May 22, 2012 \| 79 comments
28.		Real World Clojure (puredanger.com)
		81 points by Adrock on May 22, 2012 \| 11 comments
29.		Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack (umich.edu)
		79 points by wglb on May 22, 2012 \| 5 comments
30.		Joining a startup: high salary, no equity OR "startup salary" with equity? (watilo.com)
		78 points by corywatilo on May 22, 2012 \| 51 comments
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