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1. Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request (schneier.com)
630 points by zdw on March 26, 2012 | 96 comments
2. 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes (highscalability.com)
504 points by yarapavan on March 26, 2012 | 70 comments
3. A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (apenwarr.ca)
436 points by rcfox on March 26, 2012 | 90 comments
4. The universe is big. This big. (discovermagazine.com)
422 points by wwwhizz on March 26, 2012 | 98 comments
5. "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'" (skattertech.com)
408 points by xatax on March 26, 2012 | 75 comments
6. Redis persistence demystified (antirez.com)
330 points by antirez on March 26, 2012 | 24 comments
7. Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend (billthelizard.com)
316 points by ashishgandhi on March 26, 2012 | 157 comments
8. 16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft (tomshardware.com)
266 points by onemoreact on March 26, 2012 | 76 comments
9. Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why (torrentfreak.com)
260 points by cleverjake on March 26, 2012 | 189 comments
10. Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb (craig.is)
257 points by jasonmoo on March 26, 2012 | 32 comments
11. Girls and Computers (rmurphey.com)
230 points by taylorbuley on March 26, 2012 | 84 comments
12. 99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet (techcrunch.com)
208 points by garry on March 26, 2012 | 146 comments
13. Notepad++ 6.0 Released (notepad-plus-plus.org)
202 points by kefs on March 26, 2012 | 101 comments
14. Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js (backlift.com)
201 points by colevscode on March 26, 2012 | 50 comments
15. How I survived a plane crash (bbc.co.uk)
194 points by felixchan on March 26, 2012 | 63 comments
16. How I went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day (thisblogisaploy.blogspot.ca)
188 points by will_lam on March 26, 2012 | 64 comments
17. Parse 1.0 is released (parse.com)
185 points by jamesjyu on March 26, 2012 | 38 comments
18. Create your own programming language in JavaScript (nathansuniversity.appspot.com)
177 points by fogus on March 26, 2012 | 27 comments
19. German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory (hollywoodreporter.com)
158 points by NonEUCitizen on March 26, 2012 | 64 comments
20. For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere (economist.com)
156 points by gruseom on March 26, 2012 | 153 comments
21. Keeping bash history in sync between multiple terminals (briancarper.net)
151 points by patpng on March 26, 2012 | 34 comments
22. Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep (scientificamerican.com)
152 points by duaneb on March 26, 2012 | 30 comments
23. Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the world
144 points by tempaccount987 on March 26, 2012 | 72 comments
24. The pull-to-refresh patent (dcurt.is)
146 points by beggi on March 26, 2012 | 112 comments
25. Free book on Statistics for Programmers (greenteapress.com)
142 points by seshagiric on March 26, 2012 | 7 comments
26. Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates (techcrunch.com)
143 points by jasontraff on March 26, 2012 | 37 comments
27. Colourlovers Buys Forrst (pandodaily.com)
134 points by suhailpatel on March 26, 2012 | 29 comments
28. Why Javascript is a Joy (allenc.com)
110 points by tilt on March 26, 2012 | 55 comments
29. Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat (cringely.com)
104 points by evo_9 on March 26, 2012 | 3 comments
30. An Enigma cipher machine implemented in an Excel spreadsheet by a non-programmer (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
103 points by willvarfar on March 26, 2012 | 23 comments

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