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1.PHP: A fractal of bad design (veekun.com)
765 points by daeken on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 495 comments [ext]
2.Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation (dropbox.com)
367 points by lowe on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
3.PHP Sucks But I Like It (ircmaxell.com)
326 points by ircmaxell on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
4. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support) (github.com/blog)
255 points by rlm on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
5.Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times (thenextweb.com)
240 points by ryangilbert on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 191 comments [ext]
6.How to Learn Haskell (wustl.edu)
160 points by octopus on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. Slam Your Plan Against Reality Until It Hands You a Better One (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 603 days ago | hide | 97 comments
7.PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter (codinghorror.com)
158 points by tony_le_montana on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
8.CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out (coffeescript.org)
153 points by pros on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
9.C Finally Gets A New Standard (drdobbs.com)
144 points by Tatyanazaxarova on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
10. Why a 1942 Pentagon Took 491 Days, a 2022 Bus Lane Took 7,600 (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.A huge listserv. Each day, only one random person can write to it. (thelistserve.com)
140 points by ifthenecho on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
11.Discovering a Major Security Hole in Facebook's Android SDK (parse.com)
139 points by depoll on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
12.Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough? (daspecster.github.com)
138 points by daspecster on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
13. Why a Cambridge risk scholar thinks global self-destruction beats transformation (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night (thenextweb.com)
136 points by ra5cal on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
14.Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
131 points by VuongN on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
15.Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation (lesswrong.com)
123 points by ivank on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
16. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments
16.A hacker creates his own version of Google Project Glass (thenextweb.com)
122 points by celebration on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
17.The Crisis in American Walking (slate.com)
118 points by lysol on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
18.Rust's Object System (smallcultfollowing.com)
106 points by justauser on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
19. Switching Costs Are Falling, But Three Moats Still Hold ()
322 points by oik7062 61 days ago | hide | 65 comments
19.The Hack Day Manifesto (hackdaymanifesto.com)
103 points by danielknell on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
20.Remote root hole in Samba (lwn.net)
98 points by wglb on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.Tmux, for fun and profit (dockyard.com)
97 points by phsr on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
22. Why Shipping Software Is the Worst Way to Monetize It ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative (arstechnica.com)
92 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
23.NOAA: U.S. Records Warmest March; More than 15,000 Warm Temp Records Broken (commerce.gov)
91 points by molecule on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
24.Big Startups vs Little Startups (ezliu.com)
90 points by ezl on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
25.Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right (techcrunch.com)
87 points by olivercameron on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
26.Tell Obama And Dodd: No Backroom Dealing, No New SOPA (demandprogress.org)
83 points by eduadecastro on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
27.The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database (justinvincent.com)
81 points by jv22222 on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
28. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
28.Dental X-Rays linked to Brain Tumors (washingtonpost.com)
79 points by ck2 on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
29.Kubuntu Breaks With Canonical, Finds New Sponsor (h-online.com)
72 points by quanticle on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.Google (as a company) is more popular than Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple (theatlantic.com)
71 points by raldi on April 10, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. Generative AI may finally crack physical design's impenetrable vendor lock-in (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 594 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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