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1. Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000 (doddcaldwell.com)
229 points by stevenkovar on April 6, 2012 | 122 comments
2. One hiring filter that works (chrisstucchio.com)
208 points by yummyfajitas on April 6, 2012 | 189 comments
3. Save the Internet from the US (avaaz.org)
207 points by Fice on April 6, 2012 | 79 comments
4. Go: Severe memory problems on 32bit Linux (groups.google.com)
184 points by kristianp on April 6, 2012 | 147 comments
5. The Obama administration is still voicing support for SOPA. (fightforthefuture.org)
175 points by mcrittenden on April 6, 2012 | 57 comments
6. Speed Hashing (codinghorror.com)
169 points by csomar on April 6, 2012 | 125 comments
7. Why Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms (uxmovement.com)
150 points by voodoochilo on April 6, 2012 | 63 comments
8. Google Maps Floor Plans (maps.google.com)
147 points by mshafrir on April 6, 2012 | 95 comments
9. The Lisp Curse (winestockwebdesign.com)
136 points by llambda on April 6, 2012 | 54 comments
10. A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness (economist.com)
134 points by gruseom on April 6, 2012 | 60 comments
11. Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL (engadget.com)
130 points by jasondc on April 6, 2012 | 94 comments
12. Clojure-Scheme (github.com/takeoutweight)
125 points by llambda on April 6, 2012 | 31 comments
13. The nameless "they" and the Facebook / job interview trend that isn't a trend (petdance.com)
109 points by petdance on April 6, 2012 | 42 comments
14. Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store (nytimes.com)
96 points by sew on April 6, 2012 | 79 comments
15. PyPy: Python 3.x status update #3 (morepypy.blogspot.com)
91 points by vgnet on April 6, 2012 | 1 comment
16. CouchDB ships 1.2.0, Windows packages, new website (apache.org)
92 points by nslater on April 6, 2012 | 44 comments
17. Bedrock (infrequently.org)
91 points by thisisblurry on April 6, 2012 | 14 comments
18. The startup world, ranked and visualized (endrank.com)
90 points by dbrush on April 6, 2012 | 46 comments
19. Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers? (cdixon.org)
87 points by samography on April 6, 2012 | 54 comments
20. Show HN: MadeiraCloud lets you draw AWS architecture and clone apps in minutes (madeiracloud.com)
87 points by danoprey on April 6, 2012 | 48 comments
21. Why startups shouldn’t just be for the young (gigaom.com)
82 points by iProject on April 6, 2012 | 30 comments
22. WebGL Stats (webglstats.com)
79 points by daeken on April 6, 2012 | 23 comments
23. An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs? (pandodaily.com)
73 points by geofflewis on April 6, 2012 | 30 comments
24. Wayland's X11 support is ready (An Experimental GNOME Shell Running On Wayland) (phoronix.com)
73 points by p4bl0 on April 6, 2012 | 28 comments
25. Amazon S3 - 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second (aws.typepad.com)
71 points by jeffbarr on April 6, 2012 | 15 comments
26. FathomDB (YC W08) introduces PlatformLayer: XaaS (justinsb.com)
70 points by tjpd on April 6, 2012 | 12 comments
27. 500 Startups Raises New $50M Fund, Adds 4 New Partners. 250 investments to date (techcrunch.com)
68 points by dwynings on April 6, 2012 | 22 comments
28. An Experiment: Polyphasic Sleeping (mahdiyusuf.com)
68 points by googletron on April 6, 2012 | 46 comments
29. MongoDB Architecture (horicky.blogspot.com)
63 points by lnmx on April 6, 2012 | 9 comments
30. Get advice on YC from alums (askolo.com)
61 points by caoxuwen on April 6, 2012 | 5 comments

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