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1. Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index (millionshort.com)
552 points by taxonomyman on April 30, 2012 | 195 comments
2. Why Use Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)
269 points by craigkerstiens on April 30, 2012 | 144 comments
3. High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs (bbc.co.uk)
253 points by udp on April 30, 2012 | 214 comments
4. Secure Shell chrome (killer) app (chrome.google.com)
238 points by cgs1019 on April 30, 2012 | 170 comments
5. Hacking The iPod: How I Earned $65K In High School (teddy.is)
215 points by ted0 on April 30, 2012 | 55 comments
6. Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes (padmapper.com)
214 points by ericd on April 30, 2012 | 77 comments
7. Startups Are Bands for Hackers (petersobot.com)
202 points by psobot on April 30, 2012 | 83 comments
8. Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T (github.com/kien)
196 points by nwjsmith on April 30, 2012 | 95 comments
9. Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex] (github.com/afriggeri)
166 points by friggeri on April 30, 2012 | 67 comments
10. The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness (fastcompany.com)
147 points by philk10 on April 30, 2012 | 147 comments
11. Groupon Plunges as Board Members Reportedly Leaving (thestreet.com)
142 points by antr on April 30, 2012 | 88 comments
12. How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids (forbes.com/sites/alexknapp)
143 points by mirceagoia on April 30, 2012 | 84 comments
13. I'm leaving the Internet for a year (theverge.com)
139 points by Braasch on April 30, 2012 | 106 comments
14. Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue to Show (theatlantic.com)
137 points by evo_9 on April 30, 2012 | 91 comments
15. Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSON (plus.google.com)
130 points by mmastrac on April 30, 2012 | 100 comments
16. Rob Pike - Unix trivia (plus.google.com)
126 points by scdeepak on April 30, 2012 | 13 comments
17. OO JS in 15mins or Less (beardedocto.tumblr.com)
122 points by mdgrech23 on April 30, 2012 | 33 comments
18. SpaceX test firing the Falcon 9 (spacex.com)
114 points by mladenkovacevic on April 30, 2012 | 43 comments
19. MS: announcing Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile. (msdn.com)
109 points by shinvee on April 30, 2012 | 36 comments
20. 11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels, & scrapped designs (kickstarter.com)
109 points by mecredis on April 30, 2012 | 12 comments
21. Per Vices (YC W12) Sets Out To Disrupt Wireless Communications (techcrunch.com)
99 points by dwynings on April 30, 2012 | 22 comments
22. Lessons of JSON (inkdroid.org)
97 points by bpierre on April 30, 2012 | 32 comments
23. Java creator James Gosling: 'Google totally slimed Sun' (cnet.com)
97 points by protomyth on April 30, 2012 | 104 comments
24. The evolution of Lua (tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
92 points by shawndumas on April 30, 2012 | 68 comments
25. Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email (fuscata.com)
83 points by lkrubner on April 30, 2012 | 85 comments
26. The Startup Resume (justinkan.com)
83 points by dwynings on April 30, 2012 | 35 comments
27. Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)
80 points by snambi on April 30, 2012 | 74 comments
28. Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch (firmhouse.com)
79 points by MrMcDowall on April 30, 2012 | 22 comments
29. Sign up in seconds...and then what? (37signals.com)
74 points by pathdependent on April 30, 2012 | 18 comments
30. Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made (nytimes.com)
72 points by mattewing on April 30, 2012 | 40 comments

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