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1. Nginx 1.0.0 is out (nginx.org)
549 points by Jim_Neath on April 12, 2011 | 75 comments
2. The Programmer Salary Taboo (thurn.ca)
421 points by andrewmunn on April 12, 2011 | 319 comments
3. Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks (apple.stackexchange.com)
341 points by franze on April 12, 2011 | 76 comments
4. Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? (tampabay.com)
297 points by plinkplonk on April 12, 2011 | 164 comments
5. VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS (cloudfoundry.com)
225 points by Smrchy on April 12, 2011 | 56 comments
6. Soldering is easy - 7 page comic book about how to solder (andie.se)
193 points by nordgren on April 12, 2011 | 35 comments
7. The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle (humblebundle.com)
189 points by jeff18 on April 12, 2011 | 37 comments
8. Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments (edweissman.com)
184 points by zyfo on April 12, 2011 | 49 comments
9. That dev's salary is higher than mine (earthweb.com)
178 points by bhoung on April 12, 2011 | 162 comments
10. Flock is dead (flock.com)
176 points by idefix on April 12, 2011 | 56 comments
11. How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide (gregschlom.com)
173 points by gregschlom on April 12, 2011 | 70 comments
12. CSS: Our best practices are killing us (slideshare.net)
168 points by mokkos on April 12, 2011 | 53 comments
13. Ioerror's tweets after yet another detention (this time in Texas) (exquisitetweets.com)
164 points by neilk on April 12, 2011 | 59 comments
14. Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer (techcrunch.com)
149 points by mp3jeep01 on April 12, 2011 | 24 comments
15. Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of Facebook (theatlanticwire.com)
116 points by sasvari on April 12, 2011 | 94 comments
16. IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5 (msdn.com)
115 points by intranation on April 12, 2011 | 105 comments
17. Start-ups Rejected By Y Combinator (And Investors) Flock To YC Reject (blogs.forbes.com)
102 points by rrhoover on April 12, 2011 | 41 comments
18. Advanced programming languages (might.net)
100 points by fogus on April 12, 2011 | 40 comments
19. Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel (techcrunch.com)
102 points by kevruger on April 12, 2011 | 82 comments
20. How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings (dubfire.net)
100 points by schwanksta on April 12, 2011 | 88 comments
21. The iPhone Tab Bar (significantpixels.com)
97 points by gulbrandr on April 12, 2011 | 20 comments
22. Cisco To Shut Down Flip Video Business; Will Give Pink Slips To 550 Employees (techcrunch.com)
94 points by bossjones on April 12, 2011 | 63 comments
23. How I got a blank book to the top of the Amazon charts (realbusiness.co.uk)
91 points by davidw on April 12, 2011 | 21 comments
24. How Facebook likes are calculated (ksablan.com)
88 points by blazer7486 on April 12, 2011 | 33 comments
25. Fogus: Node.js should become its own language (fogus.me)
83 points by evjan on April 12, 2011 | 73 comments
26. Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order (eff.org)
82 points by grellas on April 12, 2011 | 22 comments
27. Scaling python for high load websites (yougov.github.com)
77 points by blhack on April 12, 2011 | 9 comments
28. Legal techniques the rich use to avoid paying taxes (businessweek.com)
71 points by lazyjeff on April 12, 2011 | 41 comments
29. Are You Following a Bot? (theatlantic.com)
69 points by taylorbuley on April 12, 2011 | 17 comments
30. Should top CS schools offer Software Engineering as a separate major? (nerdcollider.com)
68 points by ssclafani on April 12, 2011 | 46 comments

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