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1.Defining Property (paulgraham.com)
551 points by anateus on March 12, 2012 | 299 comments
2.Paypal Does it Again (regretsy.com)
486 points by cwan on March 12, 2012 | 149 comments
3.A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children (smashingmagazine.com)
463 points by pascal07 on March 12, 2012 | 192 comments
4.Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions (sendthemyourmoney.com)
384 points by staunch on March 12, 2012 | 131 comments
5.Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity (sridattalabs.com)
299 points by sthatipamala on March 12, 2012 | 67 comments
6.The freedom to drink coffee (raganwald.posterous.com)
282 points by llambda on March 12, 2012 | 190 comments
7.Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90% (joingrouper.com)
277 points by waxman on March 12, 2012 | 42 comments
8.Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute (metricfire.com)
238 points by tbh on March 12, 2012 | 127 comments
9.A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop (geek.com)
225 points by ukdm on March 12, 2012 | 247 comments
10.Show HN: I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices (github.com/csswizardry)
223 points by csswizardry on March 12, 2012 | 86 comments
11.Mathematics for Computer Science (princeton.edu)
204 points by epenn on March 12, 2012 | 23 comments
12.Peter Norvig: Tweaking Bayes' Theorem (dzone.com)
179 points by stagga_lee on March 12, 2012 | 35 comments
13.Lisp Machines (patrickcollison.com)
141 points by apgwoz on March 12, 2012 | 80 comments
14.JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil" (dzone.com)
138 points by friendlytuna on March 12, 2012 | 70 comments
15.Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform For Game Hosting (techcrunch.com)
131 points by whatupdave on March 12, 2012 | 45 comments
16.CSS px is an Angular Measurement (inamidst.com)
129 points by ned on March 12, 2012 | 60 comments
17.Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs (groups.google.com)
127 points by gcp on March 12, 2012 | 73 comments
18.Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice (extremetech.com)
126 points by mrsebastian on March 12, 2012 | 33 comments
19.From Miserable Launch to Decent Success in 3 Months, Thanks to Hacker News (stangeek.com)
120 points by stangeek on March 12, 2012 | 40 comments
20.The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
112 points by abyx on March 12, 2012 | 40 comments
21.Why does Posix have recursive mutexes? Because of a dare. (groups.google.com)
111 points by signa11 on March 12, 2012 | 14 comments
22.CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million + (thenextweb.com)
110 points by kunle on March 12, 2012 | 52 comments
23.Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement (allthingsd.com)
105 points by knappster on March 12, 2012 | 61 comments
24.Kickstarter for Science (petridish.org)
101 points by azazo on March 12, 2012 | 11 comments
25.Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results (highscalability.com)
99 points by yarapavan on March 12, 2012 | 20 comments
26.Bootstrap 2.0.2 released (markdotto.com)
99 points by tilt on March 12, 2012 | 17 comments
27.Adding a new statement to Python (thegreenplace.net)
100 points by motter on March 12, 2012 | 14 comments
28.The day Bill Gates called me rude — and other lessons in user experience (jacksonfish.com)
91 points by hillel on March 12, 2012 | 47 comments
29.Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks. (stashmarks.com)
88 points by bwm on March 12, 2012 | 60 comments
30.New York City Subpoenas Twitter For Occupy Wall Street Protester Data (readwriteweb.com)
78 points by johnpaultitlow on March 12, 2012 | 36 comments

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