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1. Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend (firebase.com)
526 points by jamest on April 12, 2012 | 137 comments
2. 500px Terms of Service (500px.com)
457 points by DanielRibeiro on April 12, 2012 | 100 comments
3. Try right clicking GitHub's logo (github.com)
353 points by vincentchan on April 12, 2012 | 141 comments
4. A Baseline for Front-End Developers (rmurphey.com)
311 points by thisisblurry on April 12, 2012 | 64 comments
5. Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox (arstechnica.com)
267 points by mbrubeck on April 12, 2012 | 109 comments
6. Backbone.js Fundamentals (github.com/addyosmani)
258 points by pooriaazimi on April 12, 2012 | 72 comments
7. Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month (aws.typepad.com)
236 points by jeffbarr on April 12, 2012 | 82 comments
8. The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market (rollingstone.com)
229 points by RyanMcGreal on April 12, 2012 | 105 comments
9. ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data (sebsauvage.net)
218 points by alixmartineau on April 12, 2012 | 71 comments
10. Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (michaelnielsen.org)
179 points by raganwald on April 12, 2012 | 37 comments
11. Death to MS Word (slate.com)
178 points by forkandwait on April 12, 2012 | 154 comments
12. Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours (kickstarter.com)
167 points by yurisagalov on April 12, 2012 | 93 comments
13. Let's ride this bull (37signals.com)
153 points by jroes on April 12, 2012 | 34 comments
14. Rise4fun - from Microsoft Research (rise4fun.com)
134 points by ot on April 12, 2012 | 40 comments
15. '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808' (php.net)
129 points by moe on April 12, 2012 | 138 comments
16. University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department (change.org)
124 points by k3dz on April 12, 2012 | 71 comments
17. ‘Firebase’ Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs (wired.com)
126 points by mayop100 on April 12, 2012 | 20 comments
18. Programming Music with Overtone (blip.tv)
119 points by llambda on April 12, 2012 | 25 comments
19. Google+ Thank you Google for breaking all my apps and extensions… (plus.google.com)
118 points by AndrewWarner on April 12, 2012 | 32 comments
20. If Google's Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Share Some Real User Figures (marketingland.com)
114 points by AndrewWarner on April 12, 2012 | 55 comments
21. Introducing 1% of Nothing (1percentof.org)
113 points by mirceagoia on April 12, 2012 | 94 comments
22. How To Scale A $1 Billion Startup (Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger) (techcrunch.com)
110 points by frankdenbow on April 12, 2012 | 27 comments
23. Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs (technologyreview.com)
100 points by ColinWright on April 12, 2012
24. The age of sail, visualized (revolutionanalytics.com)
96 points by johndcook on April 12, 2012 | 32 comments
25. Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick (arstechnica.com)
95 points by shawndumas on April 12, 2012 | 89 comments
26. Inside Votizen - Tech, Design, Culture (paulstamatiou.com)
101 points by PStamatiou on April 12, 2012 | 45 comments
27. Wemux - Set up tmux for party pair programming (thechangelog.com)
89 points by netherland on April 12, 2012 | 25 comments
28. Damn, Girl: New York Has Almost Double The Female Founders (betabeat.com)
88 points by rmah on April 12, 2012 | 79 comments
29. Try pressing 'm' on github (github.com)
85 points by jenius on April 12, 2012 | 16 comments
30. Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging For Its Bing Search API (techcrunch.com)
84 points by motti_s on April 12, 2012 | 43 comments

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