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1. The Best Textbooks on Every Subject (lesswrong.com)
383 points by olalonde on March 25, 2012 | 62 comments
2. Legit. Git for humans (git-legit.org)
361 points by andybak on March 25, 2012 | 131 comments
3. James Cameron begins deepest dive (bbc.co.uk)
328 points by ed209 on March 25, 2012 | 70 comments
4. Always a starter, never a finisher. (plus.google.com)
269 points by danielmeade on March 25, 2012 | 93 comments
5. How a language can be faster than C (tuxen.de)
135 points by beza1e1 on March 25, 2012 | 29 comments
6. Skype55 deobfuscated version released (skype-open-source.blogspot.com)
133 points by mariuz on March 25, 2012 | 66 comments
7. A Game to Make Games (craftstud.io)
135 points by esente on March 25, 2012 | 21 comments
8. Ark (YC W12) launches a modern people search engine (techcrunch.com)
132 points by priley on March 25, 2012 | 53 comments
9. Why Node.js streams are awesome (dump.ly)
129 points by dmmalam on March 25, 2012 | 65 comments
10. Why I decided to skip college, and how I've fared (10 months later) (joshmlewis.posterous.com)
127 points by joshmlewis on March 25, 2012 | 116 comments
11. Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance (donsbot.wordpress.com)
123 points by Menachem on March 25, 2012 | 55 comments
12. How a web app can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it (jclaes.blogspot.com)
112 points by Nemmie on March 25, 2012 | 33 comments
13. Multi-player piano (multiplayerpiano.com)
110 points by maxjaderberg on March 25, 2012 | 40 comments
14. TSA Oversight: Tell Us Your TSA Story (house.gov)
103 points by maverhick on March 25, 2012 | 10 comments
15. Why you should always use gzip instead of deflate compression (stackoverflow.com)
101 points by tbassetto on March 25, 2012 | 17 comments
16. x86 Assembly Primer for C Programmers (speakerdeck.com)
98 points by frozeneskimo on March 25, 2012 | 18 comments
17. Why geeks need to learn how to delegate (thenextweb.com)
97 points by dwynings on March 25, 2012 | 17 comments
18. PHP-Snow - A concise, dry and beautiful language that compiles to PHP (code.google.com)
90 points by dyscrete on March 25, 2012 | 94 comments
19. Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way (newcome.wordpress.com)
90 points by jemeshsu on March 25, 2012 | 33 comments
20. Doing vs Telling (sachagreif.com)
87 points by iSimone on March 25, 2012 | 32 comments
21. Xv6 - Unix V6 rewritten in modern, ANSI C for MIT 6.828 (csail.mit.edu)
86 points by duaneb on March 25, 2012 | 14 comments
22. Rails Is More Than An API (projectorpm.com)
77 points by aculver on March 25, 2012 | 6 comments
23. Who wants a great engineering team in Bucharest? (loiclemeur.com)
72 points by benjlang on March 25, 2012 | 23 comments
24. Paying back your launch debt (42floors.com)
71 points by jaf12duke on March 25, 2012 | 7 comments
25. Beware of Cramming on Your Cellphone Bill (nytimes.com)
69 points by FluidDjango on March 25, 2012 | 35 comments
26. I want to go to college (restfulpanda.com)
69 points by mmackh on March 25, 2012 | 102 comments
27. Common Lisp Quick Reference (boundp.org)
68 points by adulau on March 25, 2012 | 9 comments
28. Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop (nytimes.com)
61 points by pclark on March 25, 2012 | 10 comments
29. Logic and Artificial Intelligence (stanford.edu)
61 points by olalonde on March 25, 2012 | 6 comments
30. Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs Amid Privacy Concerns (techcrunch.com)
59 points by dwynings on March 25, 2012 | 63 comments

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