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1.The new Git-scm.com (git-scm.com)
317 points by tanoku on May 4, 2012 | 106 comments
2.Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement (wired.com)
309 points by chaostheory on May 4, 2012 | 120 comments
3.FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites (cnet.com)
301 points by quadrahelix on May 4, 2012 | 159 comments
4.Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier (bigml.com)
266 points by jdonaldson on May 4, 2012 | 31 comments
5.Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes (memrise.com)
198 points by bmj1 on May 4, 2012 | 73 comments
6.Overpriced Developer Conferences (amberweinberg.com)
189 points by duggan on May 4, 2012 | 141 comments
7.Getting the closest string match (stackoverflow.com)
171 points by peterldowns on May 4, 2012 | 45 comments
8.Inverse Fizzbuzz (jasq.org)
167 points by dxbydt on May 4, 2012 | 56 comments
9.Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js (infoq.com)
162 points by lnmx on May 4, 2012 | 81 comments
10.IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even (arstechnica.com)
158 points by jvc26 on May 4, 2012 | 110 comments
11.Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School (forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy)
153 points by tokenadult on May 4, 2012 | 82 comments
12.Dustin Moskovitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley (pandodaily.com)
144 points by dwynings on May 4, 2012 | 99 comments
13.Day Against DRM (fsf.org)
136 points by bootload on May 4, 2012 | 32 comments
14.DRM-Free Day, forever. (oreilly.com)
133 points by Garbage on May 4, 2012 | 24 comments
15.Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics (discovermagazine.com)
129 points by ColinWright on May 4, 2012 | 109 comments
16.Save 50% on all oreilly's ebooks and videos (today only) (oreilly.com)
125 points by salimmadjd on May 4, 2012 | 50 comments
17.Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed (priceonomics.com)
123 points by omarish on May 4, 2012 | 60 comments
18.Git Subtree merged into mainline git (github.com/gitster)
113 points by moonboots on May 4, 2012 | 38 comments
19.Facebook's numbers (dcurt.is)
113 points by maccman on May 4, 2012 | 75 comments
20.C2: Clojure(Script) data visualization (keminglabs.com)
109 points by DanielRibeiro on May 4, 2012 | 21 comments
21."Learning Go" Book (miek.nl)
106 points by espeed on May 4, 2012 | 36 comments
22.A Bayesian Approach to A/B Testing (custora.com)
99 points by pospischil on May 4, 2012 | 20 comments
23.How to Move Doom Characters in WebGL in 50 lines of JS (learningthreejs.com)
89 points by jerome_etienne on May 4, 2012 | 15 comments
24.Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
89 points by aaronbrethorst on May 4, 2012 | 31 comments
25.Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time (roshfu.com)
88 points by choxi on May 4, 2012 | 42 comments
26.ReactiveCocoa for a better world (github.com/blog)
80 points by sant0sk1 on May 4, 2012 | 32 comments

In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities

I call that progress.

28.Jury in Oracle v. Google has reached a verdict on all questions but one (groklaw.net)
76 points by grellas on May 4, 2012 | 54 comments
29.A review of RubyMotion (samsoff.es)
75 points by mdemerson on May 4, 2012 | 30 comments
30.50% off No Starch ebooks for Day Against DRM (nostarch.com)
74 points by ktf on May 4, 2012 | 22 comments

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