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1. GitHub for Windows (github.com/blog)
549 points by sant0sk1 on May 21, 2012 | 236 comments
2. Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices (leapmotion.com)
458 points by travisglines on May 21, 2012 | 181 comments
3. Coda 2 (panic.com)
376 points by idan on May 21, 2012 | 99 comments
4. I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened. (thejournal.ie)
330 points by nreece on May 21, 2012 | 108 comments
5. WYSIHTML5: A better approach to rich text editing (xing.github.com)
312 points by tiff on May 21, 2012 | 78 comments
6. Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research (access2research.org)
292 points by MikeTaylor on May 21, 2012 | 55 comments
7. Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show (5by5.tv)
243 points by ehed on May 21, 2012 | 122 comments
8. Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley (steveblank.com)
214 points by czzarr on May 21, 2012 | 120 comments
9. Nmap 6 released after three years of work (nmap.org)
213 points by jimmyjim on May 21, 2012 | 31 comments
10. FB down 8% at opening (google.com)
209 points by jcfrei on May 21, 2012 | 195 comments
11. Please don't let gaming consume your life (buildstarted.com)
197 points by Buildstarted on May 21, 2012 | 182 comments
12. GTar: The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play (kickstarter.com)
192 points by yurisagalov on May 21, 2012 | 96 comments
13. Behind the scenes at Adioso - Part 2: Stunts (tomhoward.co)
179 points by tomhoward on May 21, 2012 | 23 comments
14. Mike Moritz Stepping Back From Sequoia Due to Health Problems (pandodaily.com)
165 points by motti_s on May 21, 2012 | 23 comments
15. Diet Coda (panic.com)
156 points by mynameisraj on May 21, 2012 | 25 comments
16. White House petition to bring down paywalls on taxpayer-funded research (whitehouse.gov)
154 points by RichardPrice on May 21, 2012 | 15 comments
17. Google Chrome Leapfrogs Internet Explorer as the Web's Top Browser (thenextweb.com)
153 points by jarederondu on May 21, 2012 | 103 comments
18. The new emberjs.com (emberjs.com)
143 points by tomdale on May 21, 2012 | 47 comments
19. introduction to "dark patterns" in design (darkpatterns.org)
131 points by its_so_on on May 21, 2012 | 29 comments
20. Supreme Court Lets Stand Student's $675,000 Penalty For Downloading (npr.org)
127 points by marklabedz on May 21, 2012 | 60 comments
21. Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB (highscalability.com)
118 points by Anon84 on May 21, 2012 | 86 comments
22. How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)
117 points by mglz on May 21, 2012 | 43 comments
23. Thiel on 60 minutes (cbsnews.com)
117 points by justhw on May 21, 2012 | 88 comments
24. Perl 5.16.0 is out, with 590,000 lines of changes (perl.org)
108 points by Terretta on May 21, 2012 | 21 comments
25. Linux 3.4 kernel released (kernelnewbies.org)
107 points by keyist on May 21, 2012 | 46 comments
26. Why I switched to Spine.js (destroytoday.com)
98 points by ericclemmons on May 21, 2012 | 32 comments
27. SpaceX to relaunch rocket Tuesday 12:44 AM PST/ 3:44 AM EST (latimes.com)
87 points by jasondc on May 21, 2012 | 18 comments
28. Start sending dates the right way (aka The ISO8601 101) (tempus-js.com)
86 points by Keithamus on May 21, 2012 | 80 comments
29. Zedshaw/Tir (github.com/zedshaw)
84 points by shawndumas on May 21, 2012 | 38 comments
30. SpahQL - A query language for Javascript objects (angryamoeba.co.uk)
83 points by raystar on May 21, 2012 | 34 comments

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