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1.Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline (getspool.com)
354 points by jubos on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
2.I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer (adit.io)
295 points by shimms on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
3.Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future (theatlantic.com)
256 points by chrismealy on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
4. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter (bloomberg.com)
216 points by dwynings on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
5.Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids (theverge.com)
198 points by jen_h on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
6.Stripe Gallery (stripe.com)
190 points by zds on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article (plus.google.com)
186 points by donaq on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
8.Make Your Email Hacker Proof (codinghorror.com)
186 points by superchink on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
9.Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal (wynnnetherland.com)
155 points by netherland on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
10. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
10.Clojure 1.4 released (groups.google.com)
153 points by ConstantineXVI on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
11.Ep.io is closing down, recommending Heroku (ep.io)
157 points by goblin89 on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
12.The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective (needforair.com)
146 points by louischatriot on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
13. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
13.Man flies 737 from his garage (mercurynews.com)
147 points by argumentum on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
14.Starbucks Style Guide (starbucks.com)
142 points by shashashasha on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
15.Zuckerberg negotiated Instagram deal without Facebook board approval (arstechnica.com)
138 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
16. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 20 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
16.Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back (cnet.com)
124 points by soitgoes on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
17.New courses added to Coursera (Humanities, Medicine, ...) (coursera.org)
125 points by skb_ on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
18.I Quit My Passion And Took A Boring Job (getrichslowly.org)
124 points by mshafrir on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.The Twitter "Patent Hack" (avc.com)
120 points by Straubiz on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
20.Can you make yourself smarter? (nytimes.com)
118 points by restofus on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
21.Don't Build APIs (kindel.com)
117 points by atularora on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
22. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
22.Spain Is Doomed (theatlantic.com)
110 points by mattobrien on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
23.Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters Of Clean Water A Day In The Desert (treehugger.com)
108 points by ph0rque on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
24.SpaceX Given Green Light For First Launch To Space Station (wired.com)
105 points by andyjohnson0 on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
25. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
25.Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge? (nytimes.com)
100 points by moonboots on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
26.Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product (pud.com)
97 points by pud on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
27.Coursera raises $16M (nytimes.com)
88 points by NonEUCitizen on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.An easier way to create GitHub repositories (github.com/blog)
86 points by nfm on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
29.A New Asteroid Mining Operation supported by Google Execs and James Cameron (technologyreview.com)
85 points by hristov on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
30.Scale Something: How Draw Something Rode Its Rocket Ship Of Growth (gamasutra.com)
81 points by angersock on April 18, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
31. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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