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1. Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs (spacex.com)
497 points by hef19898 on April 18, 2012 | 258 comments
2. Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline (getspool.com)
354 points by jubos on April 18, 2012 | 55 comments
3. I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer (adit.io)
295 points by shimms on April 18, 2012 | 178 comments
4. Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future (theatlantic.com)
256 points by chrismealy on April 18, 2012 | 92 comments
5. Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter (bloomberg.com)
216 points by dwynings on April 18, 2012 | 82 comments
6. Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids (theverge.com)
198 points by jen_h on April 18, 2012 | 115 comments
7. Stripe Gallery (stripe.com)
190 points by zds on April 18, 2012 | 79 comments
8. Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article (plus.google.com)
186 points by donaq on April 18, 2012 | 69 comments
9. Make Your Email Hacker Proof (codinghorror.com)
186 points by superchink on April 18, 2012 | 156 comments
10. Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal (wynnnetherland.com)
155 points by netherland on April 18, 2012 | 37 comments
11. Clojure 1.4 released (groups.google.com)
153 points by ConstantineXVI on April 18, 2012 | 31 comments
12. Ep.io is closing down, recommending Heroku (ep.io)
157 points by goblin89 on April 18, 2012 | 68 comments
13. The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective (needforair.com)
146 points by louischatriot on April 18, 2012 | 69 comments
14. Man flies 737 from his garage (mercurynews.com)
147 points by argumentum on April 18, 2012 | 32 comments
15. Starbucks Style Guide (starbucks.com)
142 points by shashashasha on April 18, 2012 | 37 comments
16. Zuckerberg negotiated Instagram deal without Facebook board approval (arstechnica.com)
138 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 18, 2012 | 78 comments
17. Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back (cnet.com)
124 points by soitgoes on April 18, 2012 | 50 comments
18. New courses added to Coursera (Humanities, Medicine, ...) (coursera.org)
125 points by skb_ on April 18, 2012 | 31 comments
19. I Quit My Passion And Took A Boring Job (getrichslowly.org)
124 points by mshafrir on April 18, 2012 | 50 comments
20. The Twitter "Patent Hack" (avc.com)
120 points by Straubiz on April 18, 2012 | 51 comments
21. Can you make yourself smarter? (nytimes.com)
118 points by restofus on April 18, 2012 | 52 comments
22. Don't Build APIs (kindel.com)
117 points by atularora on April 18, 2012 | 57 comments
23. Spain Is Doomed (theatlantic.com)
110 points by mattobrien on April 18, 2012 | 222 comments
24. Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters Of Clean Water A Day In The Desert (treehugger.com)
108 points by ph0rque on April 18, 2012 | 46 comments
25. SpaceX Given Green Light For First Launch To Space Station (wired.com)
105 points by andyjohnson0 on April 18, 2012 | 21 comments
26. Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge? (nytimes.com)
100 points by moonboots on April 18, 2012 | 37 comments
27. Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product (pud.com)
97 points by pud on April 18, 2012 | 70 comments
28. Coursera raises $16M (nytimes.com)
88 points by NonEUCitizen on April 18, 2012 | 30 comments
29. An easier way to create GitHub repositories (github.com/blog)
86 points by nfm on April 18, 2012 | 26 comments
30. A New Asteroid Mining Operation supported by Google Execs and James Cameron (technologyreview.com)
85 points by hristov on April 18, 2012 | 40 comments

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