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Top of Month - Apr 2012

1. Light Table - a new IDE concept
   (13 Apr 2012 | 1592 points | Comments)

2. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
   (10 Apr 2012 | 1386 points | Comments)

3. I hereby resign
   (2 Apr 2012 | 1175 points | Comments)

4. "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
   (24 Apr 2012 | 1041 points | Comments)

5. Mosh: SSH for 2012
   (9 Apr 2012 | 900 points | Comments)

6. Facebook acquires Instagram
   (9 Apr 2012 | 837 points | Comments)

7. How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
   (25 Apr 2012 | 775 points | Comments)

8. PHP: A fractal of bad design
   (10 Apr 2012 | 765 points | Comments)

9. How Not To Sort By Average Rating
   (3 Apr 2012 | 750 points | Comments)

10. Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
    (5 Apr 2012 | 710 points | Comments)

11. Incredibox - Background music for programming.
    (27 Apr 2012 | 688 points | Comments)

12. The Top Of My Todo List
    (21 Apr 2012 | 683 points | Comments)

13. Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
    (24 Apr 2012 | 663 points | Comments)

14. Light Table Is On Kickstarter
    (17 Apr 2012 | 619 points | Comments)

15. Modern Web Development
    (23 Apr 2012 | 605 points | Comments)

16. 9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video
    (11 Apr 2012 | 603 points | Comments)

17. Valve Employee Handbook
    (21 Apr 2012 | 569 points | Comments)

18. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US
    (5 Apr 2012 | 562 points | Comments)

19. Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
    (2 Apr 2012 | 553 points | Comments)

20. Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
    (30 Apr 2012 | 552 points | Comments)

21. Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
    (17 Apr 2012 | 542 points | Comments)

22. An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app
    (27 Apr 2012 | 538 points | Comments)

23. Notch's next game is an MMO
    (3 Apr 2012 | 532 points | Comments)

24. I don't hire unlucky people
    (5 Apr 2012 | 529 points | Comments)

25. Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend
    (12 Apr 2012 | 526 points | Comments)

26. How to read Korean in 15 minutes
    (23 Apr 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

27. Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg
    (27 Apr 2012 | 504 points | Comments)

28. Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
    (18 Apr 2012 | 497 points | Comments)

29. Learning VIM while playing a game
    (23 Apr 2012 | 497 points | Comments)

30. Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything
    (22 Apr 2012 | 495 points | Comments)

31. The Average Font
    (23 Apr 2012 | 481 points | Comments)

32. Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
    (4 Apr 2012 | 477 points | Comments)

33. Instagram
    (23 Apr 2012 | 469 points | Comments)

34. Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (2008)
    (14 Apr 2012 | 459 points | Comments)

35. 500px Terms of Service
    (12 Apr 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

36. How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome
    (26 Apr 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

37. We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m
    (24 Apr 2012 | 452 points | Comments)

38. Apollo program source code
    (25 Apr 2012 | 433 points | Comments)

39. Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
    (26 Apr 2012 | 411 points | Comments)

40. Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads
    (4 Apr 2012 | 407 points | Comments)

41. This Homemade Headphone Amplifier Is A Work Of Art
    (22 Apr 2012 | 404 points | Comments)

42. Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next
    (16 Apr 2012 | 402 points | Comments)

43. Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.
    (1 Apr 2012 | 394 points | Comments)

44. Meteor is now MIT licensed
    (21 Apr 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

45. Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management
    (23 Apr 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

46. Awesome jQuery File Upload
    (14 Apr 2012 | 388 points | Comments)

47. Testing like the TSA
    (11 Apr 2012 | 384 points | Comments)

48. The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto
    (29 Apr 2012 | 381 points | Comments)

49. Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)
    (17 Apr 2012 | 379 points | Comments)

50. A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1
    (17 Apr 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

51. Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
    (10 Apr 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

52. OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"
    (1 Apr 2012 | 366 points | Comments)

53. This Is 2016 Not 2012
    (21 Apr 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

54. A Year with MongoDB
    (13 Apr 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

55. The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin
    (4 Apr 2012 | 358 points | Comments)

56. Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix
    (25 Apr 2012 | 356 points | Comments)

57. How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals
    (25 Apr 2012 | 356 points | Comments)

58. IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes
    (17 Apr 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

59. Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline
    (18 Apr 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

60. Try right clicking GitHub's logo
    (12 Apr 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

61. Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
    (6 Apr 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

62. I have 404,772 users. Now what?
    (17 Apr 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

63. Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
    (11 Apr 2012 | 342 points | Comments)

64. Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled
    (24 Apr 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

65. The Future of Python HTTP
    (2 Apr 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

66. Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
    (15 Apr 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

67. Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
    (16 Apr 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

68. From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
    (16 Apr 2012 | 331 points | Comments)

69. Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It
    (24 Apr 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

70. Love hotels and Unicode
    (3 Apr 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

71. PHP Sucks But I Like It
    (10 Apr 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

72. Paperfold CSS
    (1 Apr 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

73. Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger
    (24 Apr 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

74. Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83
    (9 Apr 2012 | 314 points | Comments)

75. A Baseline for Front-End Developers
    (12 Apr 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

76. I have no idea what I'm doing
    (23 Apr 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

77. Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE
    (1 Apr 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

78. MMO Asteroids
    (1 Apr 2012 | 307 points | Comments)

79. Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim
    (14 Apr 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

80. Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.
    (8 Apr 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

81. NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google
    (20 Apr 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

82. I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer
    (18 Apr 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

83. When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what FB sends the cops
    (7 Apr 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

84. Instagram is acquired by Facebook
    (9 Apr 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

85. Python Deployment Anti-Patterns
    (23 Apr 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

86. All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN)
    (1 Apr 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly
    (4 Apr 2012 | 290 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator
    (27 Apr 2012 | 290 points | Comments)

89. Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes
    (11 Apr 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

90. Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing
    (13 Apr 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

91. MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it
    (1 Apr 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

92. Semicolon: A language of semicolons
    (17 Apr 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

93. Free beautiful UI elements for developers
    (19 Apr 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

94. Google+ gets a redesign
    (11 Apr 2012 | 285 points | Comments)

95. Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s
    (13 Apr 2012 | 281 points | Comments)

96. Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours
    (5 Apr 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

97. Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”
    (15 Apr 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

98. "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
    (26 Apr 2012 | 278 points | Comments)

99. One-line Tree In Python
    (23 Apr 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

100. Django is now (officially) on GitHub
     (28 Apr 2012 | 276 points | Comments)