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31.		It's definitely a bubble (scripting.com)
		79 points by prajjwal on April 20, 2012 \| 62 comments
32.		Fez soundtrack contains hidden data (geek.com)
		78 points by 11031a on April 20, 2012 \| 15 comments
33.		Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case (smh.com.au)
		74 points by matthewsinclair on April 20, 2012 \| 19 comments
34.		Stop A/B Testing And Make Out Like A Bandit (untyped.com)
		73 points by zackzackzack on April 20, 2012 \| 24 comments
35.		Ruby has an ISO standard now (iso.org)
		72 points by pjmlp on April 20, 2012 \| 29 comments
36.		Dcpu-lisp: a static Lisp that compiles to DCPU-16 (github.com/jlongster)
		71 points by jlongster on April 20, 2012 \| 17 comments
37.		YouTube loses court battle over music clips (bbc.com)
		68 points by nsns on April 20, 2012 \| 40 comments
38.		Kim Dotcom responds to the latest procedural error (torrentfreak.com)
		65 points by kposehn on April 20, 2012 \| 19 comments
39.		Visualizing San Francisco Home Price Ranges In D3.js (truliablog.com)
		67 points by shashashasha on April 20, 2012 \| 27 comments
40.		Mruby and MobiRuby (aimonetti.net)
		65 points by EzGraphs on April 20, 2012 \| 13 comments
41.		Skeumorphism and storytelling (tobiasahlin.com)
		56 points by johanbrook on April 20, 2012 \| 11 comments
42.		Re. No NDAs: What Should Idea People Do? (jpl-consulting.com)
		56 points by jplarson on April 20, 2012 \| 62 comments
43.		How Andreessen Horowitz Fumbled An Instagram Investment (nytimes.com)
		53 points by joao on April 20, 2012 \| 50 comments
44.		Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers (networkworld.com)
		53 points by alphadoggs on April 20, 2012 \| 37 comments
45.		Code blocks in Python (mtomassoli.wordpress.com)
		49 points by mtomassoli on April 20, 2012 \| 68 comments
46.		Windows Phone is headed for a life of fragmentation (extremetech.com)
		46 points by evo_9 on April 20, 2012 \| 61 comments
47.		Ruby 1.9.3-p194 is released with RubyGems security fixes (ruby-lang.org)
		46 points by jfirebaugh on April 20, 2012 \| 1 comment
48.		Darwin (1960s programming game) (wikipedia.org)
		48 points by 1amzave on April 20, 2012 \| 5 comments
		redthrowaway on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says From Kim's response [1]: “This Mega takedown was possible because of corruption on the highest political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in Hollywood,” he says. “Mega has become a re-election pawn.” The sad thing is, as flamboyant a character as he is, he's probably right. [1] http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-lashes-out-against-corrup...
		sgift on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: YouTube loses court battle over music clips As usual: This is a decision by a LG (Landgericht), it will surely go to the next higher court: OLG (Oberlandesgericht). In this special case it is a decision by the "LG Hamburg", famously known in Germany for its useless decisions in 'internet cases' that will be reverted by the next higher court. Nothing to see here, people. Move on. :)
51.		How To Process Incoming SMS Messages In Your Web App [video] (twilio.com)
		43 points by crabasa on April 20, 2012 \| 7 comments
52.		Neo4j 1.7 Released (neo4j.org)
		44 points by mhluongo on April 20, 2012 \| 23 comments
		jgrahamc on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Pacman running on DCPU-16 How utterly marvellous! The entire outpouring of exploration around DCPU-16 is a wonderful example of the hacker-spirit "Here's a thing, what can you make it do?"
54.		Groupon Sliding (thenextweb.com)
		43 points by antr on April 20, 2012 \| 32 comments
55.		How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world (idg.se)
		42 points by dragonintime on April 20, 2012 \| 10 comments
		51Cards on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight ... This is slightly off topic but simply stated I just love IBM these days. There aren't many corporations that dedicate as much focus on research and yet, for a large corp. they also keep their nose surprisingly clean (these days). While we watch the swirling tech scandals ebb and flow they just quietly sit off to the side and keep changing the world.
57.		Food Matters: Building A Startup Office Culture One Meal At A Time (ridejoy.com)
		42 points by jasonshen on April 20, 2012 \| 35 comments
58.		Livegrep: Live searching the Linux kernel source code (livegrep.com)
		39 points by alpb on April 20, 2012 \| 20 comments
59.		The Humble Botanicula Debut (humblebundle.com)
		39 points by imrehg on April 20, 2012 \| 10 comments
		rb2k_ on April 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website As soon as we stop saying Jeep, Walkman, Zipper, Kleenex, Laundromat, Xerox and all the other proprietary eponyms
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