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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
๐Ÿ“š. Five Bananas Wonโ€™t Pay the Rent (archive.is)
17 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 1 day ago | 26% read | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. The Worldโ€™s Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
25 min read | by Asimov Press | saved 156 days ago | 24% read | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. Why Europe doesnโ€™t have a Tesla (worksinprogress.co)
18 min read | by worksinprogress.co | saved 7 days ago | archive
16.Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (2009) (cnet.com)
104 points by dgudkov on May 12, 2012 | 70 comments
17.Peter Thielโ€™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
๐Ÿ“š. The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction (kyla.substack.com)
16 min read | by kyla scanlon | saved 300 days ago | 99% read | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (archive.ph)
13 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 41 days ago | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. AI and the ironies of automation - Part 2 (ufried.com)
13 min read | by Uwe Friedrichsen | saved 83 days ago | archive

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