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1. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US (marksweep.com)
562 points by mkswp on April 5, 2012 | 246 comments
2. I don't hire unlucky people (raganwald.posterous.com)
529 points by arcatan on April 5, 2012 | 268 comments
3. Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
279 points by mikeyk on April 5, 2012 | 53 comments
4. Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection (justinsomnia.org)
249 points by phwd on April 5, 2012 | 78 comments
5. How To Count A Billion Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory [Probabilistically] (highscalability.com)
213 points by gruseom on April 5, 2012 | 59 comments
6. A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering (arstechnica.com)
196 points by 3lit3H4ck3r on April 5, 2012 | 77 comments
7. You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors (thetaboard.com)
187 points by dclaysmith on April 5, 2012 | 36 comments
8. Bad News: Google Is Doing The Corporate Future-Vision Video Thing (time.com)
148 points by Robelius on April 5, 2012 | 120 comments
9. What Americans Buy (npr.org)
147 points by xxpor on April 5, 2012 | 47 comments
10. The GitHub Styleguide (github.com/styleguide)
133 points by jamesjyu on April 5, 2012 | 78 comments
11. We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found (thenextweb.com)
132 points by kurtvarner on April 5, 2012 | 39 comments
12. Why I’d like a “license type” setting for GitHub projects (aculo.us)
132 points by madrobby on April 5, 2012 | 130 comments
13. MPAA Chief Suggests Backroom Negotiations On New SOPA Are Well Underway (techdirt.com)
125 points by sethbannon on April 5, 2012 | 25 comments
14. How to leave academia (for science PhDs) (chrisstucchio.com)
113 points by yummyfajitas on April 5, 2012 | 124 comments
15. Edit scheme on your iPad via the parse tree: Lisping launched (slidetocode.com)
111 points by steeleduncan on April 5, 2012 | 45 comments
16. Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16 (github.com/jtauber)
112 points by jtauber on April 5, 2012 | 68 comments
17. Hacker School: Summer 2012 Applications Open + Etsy Scholarships (hackerschool.com)
106 points by nicholasjbs on April 5, 2012 | 49 comments
18. 5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion (torrentfreak.com)
98 points by joeyespo on April 5, 2012 | 18 comments
19. Why I hate search (msdn.com)
97 points by philk10 on April 5, 2012 | 73 comments
20. Yet another Google Glasses Ad (tomscott.com)
95 points by jakozaur on April 5, 2012 | 20 comments
21. What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them? (reddit.com)
91 points by moooooky on April 5, 2012 | 69 comments
22. How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse (42floors.com)
90 points by waratuman on April 5, 2012 | 61 comments
23. Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github (fogcreek.com)
88 points by bgraves on April 5, 2012 | 29 comments
24. Software Engineering at Prismatic (getprismatic.com)
87 points by fogus on April 5, 2012 | 18 comments
25. Dropbox adds drag and drop (dropbox.com)
87 points by jackyolk on April 5, 2012 | 29 comments
26. Finding Early Customers When You Aren't Internet Famous (zapier.com)
77 points by WadeF on April 5, 2012 | 24 comments
27. Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology (etsy.com)
78 points by kellanem on April 5, 2012 | 40 comments
28. Danish Startup Community Unified Against The Entrepreneur Tax (arcticstartup.com)
73 points by vilpponen on April 5, 2012 | 34 comments
29. $8M in Funding and a Lawsuit to Boot? Game on. (boundless.com)
73 points by aaronwhite on April 5, 2012 | 43 comments
30. Chuck Moore on push-down stacks (colorforth.com)
68 points by gruseom on April 5, 2012 | 10 comments

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