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1. Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle (plus.google.com)
494 points by vibrunazo on May 16, 2012 | 112 comments
2. Pretty RFC (pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com)
453 points by knowtheory on May 16, 2012 | 72 comments
3. Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs (humblesoftware.com)
315 points by gourneau on May 16, 2012 | 59 comments
4. Google's Code Editor (docs.google.com)
303 points by obilgic on May 16, 2012 | 85 comments
5. Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph (googleblog.blogspot.com)
284 points by rryan on May 16, 2012 | 139 comments
6. The Bastards Book of Ruby (bastardsbook.com)
227 points by J3L2404 on May 16, 2012 | 36 comments
7. The First Time I Used Programming At Work (justinkan.com)
222 points by maccman on May 16, 2012 | 85 comments
8. The 10k Bootstrap Challenge (bootstrapchallenge.com)
200 points by alexandros on May 16, 2012 | 78 comments
9. Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality (nationaljournal.com)
189 points by spenrose on May 16, 2012 | 223 comments
10. Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message (facebook.com)
158 points by mayneack on May 16, 2012 | 120 comments
11. Goodbye, MongoDB (zopyx.de)
144 points by zedr on May 16, 2012 | 122 comments
12. Europe's Square (izettle.com)
143 points by jordanbrown on May 16, 2012 | 100 comments
13. Multiple Django and Flask Sites with Nginx and uWSGI Emperor (tghw.com)
142 points by tghw on May 16, 2012 | 26 comments
14. How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit (theatlantic.com)
135 points by sasvari on May 16, 2012 | 68 comments
15. To boldly go where Node man has gone before (jgc.org)
131 points by jgrahamc on May 16, 2012 | 115 comments
16. Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site (swapped.cc)
130 points by latitude on May 16, 2012 | 30 comments
17. How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' (rollingstone.com)
124 points by ahmadss on May 16, 2012 | 96 comments
18. Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How'd They Do? (npr.org)
110 points by iProject on May 16, 2012 | 76 comments
19. The love and hate of Node.js (mailinator.blogspot.com)
110 points by zinxq on May 16, 2012 | 88 comments
20. Why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance. (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
96 points by pron on May 16, 2012 | 39 comments
21. Say hello to the real real-time Web (arstechnica.com)
94 points by mayop100 on May 16, 2012 | 23 comments
22. How I Went From 0 to $50k on the App Store(s) (entrelife.com)
92 points by clarky07 on May 16, 2012 | 18 comments
23. Kicksend (YC S11) goes free. Send unlimited files to anyone. (venturebeat.com)
93 points by brendanlim on May 16, 2012 | 56 comments
24. Online algorithmic event detection from realtime mobile photos (teleportd.com)
81 points by spolu on May 16, 2012 | 21 comments
25. Emacsy, an embeddable Emacs (kickstarter.com)
77 points by krakensden on May 16, 2012 | 34 comments
26. Comparing quality of films in the iTunes & Netflix libraries (goodfil.ms)
79 points by johnb on May 16, 2012 | 37 comments
27. How to build a location-based hybrid mobile app with reverse geocoding (trigger.io)
77 points by amirnathoo on May 16, 2012 | 7 comments
28. Is there a point to paginating articles online? (ux.stackexchange.com)
74 points by ivoflipse on May 16, 2012 | 47 comments
29. Shout Out to the Server Teams (stevestreza.com)
73 points by siglesias on May 16, 2012 | 37 comments
30. Paris & Berlin – The tale of two cities (Part 1: The facts you can’t ignore) (rudebaguette.com)
67 points by RudeBaguette on May 16, 2012 | 53 comments

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