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1. Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app (habitlistapp.com)
282 points by ggualberto on May 20, 2012 | 131 comments
2. I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons (ryanleecarson.tumblr.com)
252 points by ryancarson on May 20, 2012 | 93 comments
3. The world's first HTML5 SIP client (code.google.com)
217 points by vamsee on May 20, 2012 | 58 comments
4. Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account (github.com/goldmansachs)
209 points by haberdasher on May 20, 2012 | 106 comments
5. Satellite killed by trajectory patent (wikipedia.org)
195 points by frabcus on May 20, 2012 | 71 comments
6. Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter (bpython-interpreter.org)
187 points by llambda on May 20, 2012 | 74 comments
7. An Anomaly in the μTorrent network (cert.pl)
183 points by flux_w42 on May 20, 2012 | 38 comments
8. Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration (worqshop.com)
183 points by donny on May 20, 2012 | 73 comments
9. "Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome (wikipedia.org)
146 points by TomAnthony on May 20, 2012 | 100 comments
10. Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
140 points by ruswick on May 20, 2012 | 51 comments
11. Fatal Collision Makes Car-Sharing Worries No Longer Theoretical (nytimes.com)
137 points by branola on May 20, 2012 | 137 comments
12. Hacker Typer (hackertyper.com)
136 points by th0ma5 on May 20, 2012 | 34 comments
13. Everything You Wanted To Know About Caching (mnot.net)
133 points by krat0sprakhar on May 20, 2012 | 5 comments
14. Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor (washingtonpost.com)
119 points by J3L2404 on May 20, 2012 | 13 comments
15. From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz (nytimes.com)
115 points by kanamekun on May 20, 2012 | 54 comments
16. SpaceX looks to relaunch Tuesday after reviewing fail data. (plus.google.com)
109 points by cr4zy on May 20, 2012 | 14 comments
17. Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg’s Bible (io9.com)
102 points by gruseom on May 20, 2012 | 56 comments
18. I took Scott Hanselman's advice on productivity, and now look at me... (whiletruecode.com)
93 points by josh_earl on May 20, 2012 | 33 comments
19. New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College (investors.com)
91 points by samhan on May 20, 2012 | 109 comments
20. Visualizing Galois Fields (nklein.com)
91 points by wglb on May 20, 2012 | 16 comments
21. How to find an apartment in San Francisco during the tech boom (jasonevanish.com)
87 points by jevanish on May 20, 2012 | 113 comments
22. How do I get started with Node.js (stackoverflow.com)
85 points by sparknlaunch12 on May 20, 2012 | 30 comments
23. Synergy Aircraft Project (kickstarter.com)
79 points by amalag on May 20, 2012 | 52 comments
24. Show HN: A weekendproject, disposable web chats (mss.gs)
74 points by deviavir on May 20, 2012 | 33 comments
25. Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World (wikipedia.org)
67 points by T-zex on May 20, 2012 | 31 comments
26. Microsoft launches so.cl (so.cl)
64 points by stdclass on May 20, 2012 | 77 comments
27. A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006 (groklaw.net)
58 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 20, 2012 | 7 comments
28. With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul (npr.org)
56 points by ca98am79 on May 20, 2012 | 48 comments
29. Postgresql vs mongodb (pingoured.fr)
55 points by ibotty on May 20, 2012 | 50 comments
30. Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic (chartsnthings.tumblr.com)
53 points by jashkenas on May 20, 2012 | 6 comments

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