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The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2012

We track 588 stories from April 2012, averaging 209 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 20 stories. Together they drew 49,399 comments, 84 per story on average.

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Light Table - a new IDE concept chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 13 Apr 2012
1.6k pts 291 comments
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Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework meteor.com · geoffschmidt · 10 Apr 2012
1.4k pts 322 comments
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I hereby resign raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 2 Apr 2012
1.2k pts 366 comments
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"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." joethepeacock.blogspot.co.uk · kilian · 24 Apr 2012
1k pts 195 comments
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Mosh: SSH for 2012 mosh.mit.edu · pc · 9 Apr 2012
900 pts 193 comments
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Facebook acquires Instagram facebook.com · hunterowens · 9 Apr 2012
837 pts 374 comments
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How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill behind-the-enemy-lines.com · Panos · 25 Apr 2012
775 pts 142 comments
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PHP: A fractal of bad design me.veekun.com · daeken · 10 Apr 2012
765 pts 495 comments
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating evanmiller.org · llambda · 3 Apr 2012
750 pts 153 comments
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Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup blog.hatchlings.com · mikeknoop · 5 Apr 2012
710 pts 246 comments
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Incredibox - Background music for programming. incredibox.com · bmelton · 27 Apr 2012
688 pts 167 comments
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The Top Of My Todo List paulgraham.com · dko · 21 Apr 2012
683 pts 185 comments
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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really googleblog.blogspot.com · jganetsk · 24 Apr 2012
663 pts 492 comments
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Light Table Is On Kickstarter kickstarter.com · ibdknox · 17 Apr 2012
619 pts 215 comments
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Modern Web Development jtaby.com · tomdale · 23 Apr 2012
605 pts 85 comments
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9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video danielhope.org · danielhope · 11 Apr 2012
603 pts 131 comments
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Valve Employee Handbook cdn.flamehaus.com · v21 · 21 Apr 2012
569 pts 160 comments
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The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US blog.marksweep.com · mkswp · 5 Apr 2012
562 pts 246 comments
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Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages github.com · tanoku · 2 Apr 2012
553 pts 46 comments
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Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index millionshort.com · taxonomyman · 30 Apr 2012
552 pts 195 comments
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Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement github.com · shill · 17 Apr 2012
542 pts 107 comments
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An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app stackoverflow.com · willvarfar · 27 Apr 2012
538 pts 148 comments
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Notch's next game is an MMO 0x10c.com · primesuspect · 3 Apr 2012
532 pts 245 comments
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I don't hire unlucky people raganwald.posterous.com · arcatan · 5 Apr 2012
529 pts 268 comments
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Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend firebase.com · jamest · 12 Apr 2012
526 pts 137 comments
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How to read Korean in 15 minutes ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com · rfreytag · 23 Apr 2012
514 pts 123 comments
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Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg google.com · InfinityX0 · 27 Apr 2012
504 pts 130 comments
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Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs spacex.com · hef19898 · 18 Apr 2012
497 pts 258 comments
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Learning VIM while playing a game vim-adventures.com · yogsototh · 23 Apr 2012
497 pts 125 comments
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Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything physics.ohio-state.edu · 6ren · 22 Apr 2012
495 pts 66 comments
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The Average Font iotic.com · daleharvey · 23 Apr 2012
481 pts 63 comments
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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses bits.blogs.nytimes.com · nickbilton · 4 Apr 2012
477 pts 288 comments
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Instagram bhorowitz.com · dwynings · 23 Apr 2012
469 pts 143 comments
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Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (2008) halfhalf.posterous.com · jiakeliu · 14 Apr 2012
459 pts 103 comments
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How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome japhr.blogspot.com · plinkplonk · 26 Apr 2012
457 pts 114 comments
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500px Terms of Service 500px.com · DanielRibeiro · 12 Apr 2012
457 pts 100 comments
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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m ryanleecarson.tumblr.com · ryancarson · 24 Apr 2012
452 pts 179 comments
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Apollo program source code ibiblio.org · rjshade · 25 Apr 2012
433 pts 57 comments
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Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin releases.ubuntu.com · cobychapple · 26 Apr 2012
411 pts 298 comments
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Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads blog.ads.pof.com · tylerrooney · 4 Apr 2012
407 pts 118 comments
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This Homemade Headphone Amplifier Is A Work Of Art this8bitlife.com · ot · 22 Apr 2012
404 pts 70 comments
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Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next chris-granger.com · zachallaun · 16 Apr 2012
402 pts 75 comments
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Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence. mapstd.com · elliottkember · 1 Apr 2012
394 pts 40 comments
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Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management workstuff.tumblr.com · fields · 23 Apr 2012
389 pts 258 comments
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Meteor is now MIT licensed meteor.com · nim · 21 Apr 2012
389 pts 121 comments
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Awesome jQuery File Upload blueimp.github.com · denysonique · 14 Apr 2012
388 pts 47 comments
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Testing like the TSA 37signals.com · hawke · 11 Apr 2012
384 pts 94 comments
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The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto utf8everywhere.org · bearpool · 29 Apr 2012
381 pts 182 comments
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Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly) github.com · andrewf · 17 Apr 2012
379 pts 70 comments
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A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1 chrisstucchio.com · yummyfajitas · 17 Apr 2012
375 pts 317 comments
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Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation tech.dropbox.com · lowe · 10 Apr 2012
367 pts 126 comments
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OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team" venturebeat.com · lleims · 1 Apr 2012
366 pts 181 comments
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This Is 2016 Not 2012 danshipper.com · dshipper · 21 Apr 2012
364 pts 231 comments
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A Year with MongoDB blog.engineering.kiip.me · mitchellh · 13 Apr 2012
362 pts 141 comments
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The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin developer.mintchipchallenge.com · jonny_eh · 4 Apr 2012
358 pts 169 comments
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Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix theverge.com · pook1e · 25 Apr 2012
356 pts 215 comments
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How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals washingtonmonthly.com · lgv · 25 Apr 2012
356 pts 153 comments
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IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes ikamasutra.com · varl · 17 Apr 2012
355 pts 158 comments
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Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline blog.getspool.com · jubos · 18 Apr 2012
354 pts 55 comments
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Try right clicking GitHub's logo github.com · vincentchan · 12 Apr 2012
353 pts 141 comments
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