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1. How Not To Sort By Average Rating (evanmiller.org)
750 points by llambda on April 3, 2012 | 153 comments
2. Notch's next game is an MMO (0x10c.com)
532 points by primesuspect on April 3, 2012 | 245 comments
3. Love hotels and Unicode (reigndesign.com)
329 points by gioele on April 3, 2012 | 54 comments
4. Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores (rhaas.blogspot.com)
262 points by chanks on April 3, 2012 | 107 comments
5. C.S. Lewis on Writing (lettersofnote.com)
249 points by taylorbuley on April 3, 2012 | 65 comments
6. Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank (projectorpm.com)
247 points by bdunn on April 3, 2012 | 83 comments
7. How my comment on TechCrunch got me a Facebook Cease and Desist (rickstratton.com)
227 points by racerrick on April 3, 2012 | 86 comments
8. Leisure Suit Larry (kickstarter.com)
226 points by radagaisus on April 3, 2012 | 139 comments
9. Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours. (seedlauncher.com)
194 points by littlegiantcap on April 3, 2012 | 155 comments
10. A turning point for GNU libc (lwn.net)
192 points by corbet on April 3, 2012 | 86 comments
11. Instagram for Android — Available Now. (blog.instagram.com)
190 points by hornokplease on April 3, 2012 | 156 comments
12. How Design Works (startupsthisishowdesignworks.com)
181 points by stevenkovar on April 3, 2012 | 49 comments
13. This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program (dadgum.com)
176 points by DavidChouinard on April 3, 2012 | 23 comments
14. In praise of... text files and protocols (jgc.org)
176 points by jgrahamc on April 3, 2012 | 88 comments
15. Math For Programmers (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
167 points by sayemm on April 3, 2012 | 50 comments
16. Rust - a new programming language from Mozilla (rust-lang.org)
145 points by gregnavis on April 3, 2012 | 126 comments
17. 57 Small Programs that Crash Compilers (regehr.org)
125 points by hedgehog on April 3, 2012 | 13 comments
18. Google Art Project (googleartproject.com)
126 points by rheide on April 3, 2012 | 34 comments
19. Rent time with founders from Parse, Hipmunk, Sincerely and Reddit through Exec (iamexec.com)
108 points by justin on April 3, 2012 | 43 comments
20. How to apologise to your customers (balsamiq.com)
105 points by revorad on April 3, 2012 | 27 comments
21. Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap (ajkochanowicz.github.com)
104 points by coderdude on April 3, 2012 | 13 comments
22. How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator? (techcrunch.com)
97 points by dko on April 3, 2012 | 61 comments
23. Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous (raganwald.posterous.com)
91 points by bowline_nc on April 3, 2012 | 41 comments
24. C++ programming pioneer hacks off-grid, DIY, smart home (faircompanies.com)
88 points by yason on April 3, 2012 | 30 comments
25. Google announces 50 search changes implemented in March (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
87 points by byrneseyeview on April 3, 2012 | 42 comments
26. Rails isn't for beginners (rakeroutes.com)
86 points by xyzzyb on April 3, 2012 | 69 comments
27. Why the Juju Charm Store Will Change the Way You Use Ubuntu Server (jorgecastro.org)
83 points by _asuk on April 3, 2012 | 34 comments
28. Lisp Hackers: Marijn Haverbeke (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)
83 points by llambda on April 3, 2012 | 14 comments
29. Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system (v3.co.uk)
82 points by noarchy on April 3, 2012 | 3 comments
30. New Dropbox API Features: /delta, /copy_ref, OS X SDK (dropbox.com)
85 points by dwynings on April 3, 2012 | 21 comments

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