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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
		ankeshk on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Defining Property So PG doesn't finish the story of Ooka Tadasuke and how he solves the case of the cook asking the student to pay for enjoying the smell of good food. The judge asks the student to take a few coins. But instead of paying tangible coins for intangible smell, he asked for the coins to be put in a handkerchief and shook hard. And the payment to be made with the sound the coins made. (I had heard this story as an Indian story - not a Japanese story. And Ooka Tadasuke was replaced by Birbal - the prime minister of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. "Akbar Birbal" stories are full of such awesomeness.)
24.		Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement (allthingsd.com)
		105 points by knappster on March 12, 2012 \| 61 comments
25.		Kickstarter for Science (petridish.org)
		101 points by azazo on March 12, 2012 \| 11 comments
26.		Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results (highscalability.com)
		99 points by yarapavan on March 12, 2012 \| 20 comments
27.		Bootstrap 2.0.2 released (markdotto.com)
		99 points by tilt on March 12, 2012 \| 17 comments
		callmeed on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Posterous acquired by Twitter In a small way, every talent acquisition poisons the well for future, bootstrapped startups. It erodes the confidence of users and potential customers. People put their company blog on Posterous, they add their business to GoWalla, they gave AdGrok a few hours of their time, etcetera, etcetera. I'm not saying I would turn down the offer. But I fear the long-term effect of all these acqui-hires is my potential customers saying "No thanks. I doubt you geeks will be around in 18 months" when I market to them.
29.		Adding a new statement to Python (thegreenplace.net)
		100 points by motter on March 12, 2012 \| 14 comments
		pg on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per mi... Believe it or not I wrote the first draft of an essay about this yesterday. (I went on a one-day trip to NYC and wrote the first draft of one in each direction.) So stay tuned.
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