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1. This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory" (thisamericanlife.org)
564 points by tptacek on March 16, 2012 | 225 comments
2. The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists (nytimes.com)
389 points by fuzzix on March 16, 2012 | 262 comments
3. The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope (ignorethecode.net)
264 points by slig on March 16, 2012 | 75 comments
4. Shutting down a product? Open source it. (thoughtbot.com)
257 points by Croaky on March 16, 2012 | 46 comments
5. Audacity 2.0 Released (sourceforge.net)
213 points by thenextcorner on March 16, 2012 | 63 comments
6. EMC Buys Pivotal Labs (gigaom.com)
200 points by michaelfairley on March 16, 2012 | 66 comments
7. ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12 (cnet.com)
189 points by dangrossman on March 16, 2012 | 140 comments
8. TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content (zdnet.com)
189 points by zeppelin_7 on March 16, 2012 | 43 comments
9. The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) (wired.com)
182 points by Cieplak on March 16, 2012 | 100 comments
10. A+ for O'Reilly Customer Service: Keep the books and donate them
182 points by nagoo on March 16, 2012 | 53 comments
11. The myth of the overnight success (cdixon.org)
168 points by parth16 on March 16, 2012 | 36 comments
12. What you could do if you were Google and had their databases (jacquesmattheij.com)
166 points by jacquesm on March 16, 2012 | 81 comments
13. The problem with having great ideas (nodemaker.posterous.com)
162 points by nodemaker on March 16, 2012 | 49 comments
14. Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk (gabrielflor.it)
162 points by aqrashik on March 16, 2012 | 30 comments
15. Instapaper for Retina iPad (marco.org)
144 points by nsavant on March 16, 2012 | 76 comments
16. Ignore Everybody. (gapingvoid.com)
135 points by rfugger on March 16, 2012 | 28 comments
17. Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water (arstechnica.com)
125 points by shawndumas on March 16, 2012 | 39 comments
18. The curious case of our iOS app (Prey) (preyproject.com)
111 points by 1880 on March 16, 2012 | 38 comments
19. Web pages can sniff to see what Chrome extensions you have installed (code.google.com)
108 points by benmccann on March 16, 2012 | 37 comments
20. Download Public User Data with Oink's Export Tool (cristinajcordova.com)
103 points by cristinacordova on March 16, 2012 | 52 comments
21. Python 3.3 reintroduces explicit Unicode literals to ease porting (python.org)
89 points by kibwen on March 16, 2012 | 33 comments
22. Why Ireland is the best place in the world for a start-up (dingadeal.com)
88 points by dajo on March 16, 2012 | 68 comments
23. The Zen of R (gist.github.com)
84 points by mariuskempe on March 16, 2012 | 25 comments
24. I'd Love to Move, but I Can't (theatlantic.com)
83 points by _airh on March 16, 2012 | 123 comments
25. Show HN: TheReelBox, find tonight's movie (thereelbox.com)
81 points by pkrein on March 16, 2012 | 59 comments
26. RSA public exponent size (imperialviolet.org)
80 points by taylorbuley on March 16, 2012 | 22 comments
27. Using Git with Dropbox (solarianprogrammer.com)
80 points by mmisu on March 16, 2012 | 59 comments
28. Indian Court Orders SOPA-style Blackout of 100+ Music Sites (torrentfreak.com)
79 points by llambda on March 16, 2012 | 20 comments
29. Rise of the Hack (tokbox.com)
76 points by janineyoong on March 16, 2012 | 14 comments
30. I'm moving to Silicon Valley and living in my car (kurtvarner.com)
71 points by boopsie on March 16, 2012 | 102 comments

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