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1.		Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America (rackspace.com)
		622 points by grimey27 on April 4, 2013 \| 101 comments
2.		Stop externalising your life (jshakespeare.com)
		322 points by daGrevis on April 4, 2013 \| 152 comments
3.		Facebook Home (facebook.com)
		331 points by samuel02 on April 4, 2013 \| 220 comments
4.		PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released (postgresql.org)
		252 points by edwinvlieg on April 4, 2013 \| 99 comments
5.		Media Queries are a Hack (ianstormtaylor.com)
		223 points by ianstormtaylor on April 4, 2013 \| 78 comments
6.		Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf] (nvidia.com)
		221 points by fafner on April 4, 2013 \| 68 comments
7.		Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf] (bmj.com)
		218 points by davidtanner on April 4, 2013 \| 199 comments
8.		Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance (cnet.com)
		215 points by donohoe on April 4, 2013 \| 147 comments
9.		Are Bitcoins The Future? (priceonomics.com)
		203 points by patrickod on April 4, 2013 \| 226 comments
10.		The new sandbox: open-source and self-hosted (dotcloud.com)
		200 points by zimbatm on April 4, 2013 \| 47 comments
11.		Learn Vimscript the Hard Way (stevelosh.com)
		195 points by stevelosh on April 4, 2013 \| 33 comments
12.		Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy (gigaom.com)
		198 points by shawndumas on April 4, 2013 \| 155 comments
13.		Raven Software releases source code for Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast (polygon.com)
		171 points by GuiA on April 4, 2013 \| 57 comments
14.		Cleaning House (webkit.org)
		167 points by protomyth on April 4, 2013 \| 69 comments
15.		PythonMonk – Learn Python in the browser (pythonmonk.com)
		162 points by akshat on April 4, 2013 \| 47 comments
16.		Go 1.1 beta 1 Released (groups.google.com)
		161 points by geetarista on April 4, 2013 \| 181 comments
17.		Great Computer Science Lectures for all levels (codeschool.org)
		154 points by obilgic on April 4, 2013 \| 16 comments
18.		How to implement HTTPS in an insufficient manner (troyhunt.com)
		135 points by tomelders on April 4, 2013 \| 64 comments
19.		Show HN: TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts (thebigdb.com)
		133 points by christophe971 on April 4, 2013 \| 76 comments
20.		Reasons Not to Stretch (nytimes.com)
		126 points by glenstein on April 4, 2013 \| 91 comments
21.		Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact (icij.org)
		110 points by kitsune_ on April 4, 2013 \| 39 comments
22.		Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked (scribd.com)
		106 points by joosters on April 4, 2013 \| 65 comments
23.		Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android (techcrunch.com)
		102 points by trevin on April 4, 2013 \| 120 comments
24.		Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research (brendaneich.com)
		101 points by kibwen on April 4, 2013 \| 40 comments
25.		Free Must-Have “Security Engineering” Book (novainfosec.com)
		100 points by grecs on April 4, 2013 \| 26 comments
26.		Meteor 0.6.0: brand new distribution system, app packages, NPM integration (meteor.com)
		99 points by JanLaussmann on April 4, 2013 \| 44 comments
27.		[dupe] Instacode (instacod.es)
		95 points by speg on April 4, 2013 \| 21 comments
28.		My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News (gist.github.com)
		95 points by floydpink on April 4, 2013 \| 24 comments
29.		Mt. Gox under DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges (computerworld.com)
		94 points by morphics on April 4, 2013 \| 75 comments
30.		How Google Analytics Got Started (attendly.com)
		92 points by shandsaker on April 4, 2013 \| 5 comments
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