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1.Testing like the TSA (37signals.com)
384 points by hawke on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
2.Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android (kickstarter.com)
342 points by erohead on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
3.Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes (geocoder.ca)
288 points by kennywinker on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
4. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
4.Google+ gets a redesign (googleblog.blogspot.com)
285 points by izuzak on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
5.Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk? (sfweekly.com)
265 points by Brajeshwar on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
6.How a computer boots up (duartes.org)
245 points by randhckr on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.Rendering the world (mapbox.com)
221 points by dmarinoc on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
8."Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader (bu.mp)
195 points by noahlt on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
9.This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. (cnet.com)
191 points by dclaysmith on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
10. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
10.When will I ever use math? (dimsumthinking.com)
189 points by mrspeaker on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
11.1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide (statcounter.com)
187 points by mathias on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
12.A primer on Python decorators (thumbtack.com)
187 points by midas on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
13. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
13.Groupon Kidz Club (groupon.com)
180 points by jawns on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
14.US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices (bbc.co.uk)
161 points by marklabedz on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
15.German Pirate Party overtakes Greens on latest poll (todayszaman.com)
152 points by mariorz on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
16. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
16.What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming? (stackoverflow.com)
151 points by lambda on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
17.Time to ditch the arrogant tech blogs (kernelmag.com)
142 points by dchs on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
18.What can you do with an Android application with no permissions? (leviathansecurity.com)
138 points by AndrewDucker on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
19. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
19.Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics) (rachelnabors.com)
139 points by raganwald on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
20.Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me (rodrigohaenggi.com)
125 points by therod on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
21.This is the mail system (dewith.com)
119 points by tbassetto on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
22. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.The demise of the low level Programmer. (altdevblogaday.com)
117 points by wqfeng on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
23.Earthquake of magnitude 8.7 strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia (cnn.com)
103 points by tomp on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
24.Maryland bans employers from asking for employee social media passwords (dailycaller.com)
100 points by Suraj-Sun on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.Released: Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 (python.org)
76 points by johns on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites From Earth (technologyreview.com)
73 points by wglb on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
27.Source code and manuals of many old Unixes (tuhs.org)
71 points by dpeck on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
28. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Than A Year (mixergy.com)
69 points by tswicegood on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
29.Web emulator for DCPU-16 (0x10co.de)
67 points by pros on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
30.Finite Field Arithmetic and Reed-Solomon Coding (swtch.com)
64 points by gnufs on April 11, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
31. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments

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