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2.DuckDuckGo is blowing up (duckduckgo.com)
1221 points by MatthewPhillips on March 29, 2012 | 203 comments
1-100
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4.A Woman’s Story (raganwald.posterous.com)
716 points by raganwald on March 29, 2012 | 194 comments
5.The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men (techcitement.com)
629 points by d2vid on March 29, 2012 | 196 comments
1000-2500
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7.Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?
546 points by jader201 on March 29, 2012 | 192 comments
8.From MIT, a cure for all viruses? (process.org)
426 points by MRonney on March 29, 2012 | 107 comments
9.Batman's Real Story (washingtonpost.com)
400 points by philco on March 29, 2012 | 56 comments
10.Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later (geek.com)
392 points by ukdm on March 29, 2012 | 67 comments
11.Paper (fiftythree.com)
392 points by mynameisraj on March 29, 2012 | 122 comments
2500-5000
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google
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14.GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. (therwp.com)
241 points by emillon on March 29, 2012 | 47 comments
15.Canada ditches the penny (globaltvedmonton.com)
238 points by codergirl on March 29, 2012 | 110 comments
16.My First Passive Income Project, One Year Later (sparklewise.com)
229 points by toumhi on March 29, 2012 | 51 comments
17.A Better Strategy for Hangman (datagenetics.com)
215 points by icefox on March 29, 2012 | 62 comments
5000-10k
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19.Matz wins the 2011 Free Software Award (fsf.org)
207 points by ab9 on March 29, 2012 | 33 comments
20.Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas (ardenthoughts.tumblr.com)
179 points by _z0jz on March 29, 2012 | 129 comments
0 - I don't use Stack Overflow
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22.200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset (aws.typepad.com)
173 points by bbgm on March 29, 2012 | 55 comments

Thank you all! (I'm the founder.)

In response to a lot of the comments here, please know that two major things we're working on are better programming queries (https://duckduckgo.com/tech.html -- one of my new favorites https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa) and speed.

For speed, just this week we upgraded our whole caching system, which should significantly speed up a lot of queries. I'd be interested to know if anyone has noticed any difference over the past day or so. This change should equalize a lot of the location differences, which is the main issue. In some parts of the world we were way slower.

Also, for anyone wanting to get involved we've been open sourcing more and more (https://github.com/duckduckgo). We're working on better entry points, but one could start here now: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki. For programming documentation in particular, this is the repo: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead. That will answer queries like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split

On the back-end we could also use some sysadmin help :). Here's our hiring info: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387

Of course, we're also always looking for feedback, the more detailed/specific the better: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html

24.IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network (networkworld.com)
149 points by fr0sty on March 29, 2012 | 31 comments
25.Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity (thewebivore.com)
151 points by pselle on March 29, 2012 | 54 comments
26.Why You Don't Need A Programmer (thinkopen.ly)
146 points by bendingoutward on March 29, 2012 | 97 comments
27.Learn to Pick Locks for Fun and an Increased Understanding of Security (lifehacker.com)
144 points by wqfeng on March 29, 2012 | 38 comments
28.Ze Frank's Kickstarter post-mortem (zefrank.tumblr.com)
131 points by revorad on March 29, 2012 | 13 comments
29.Visualizing Code to Fail Faster (codinghorror.com)
117 points by dko on March 29, 2012 | 37 comments
30.LG begins mass production of first flexible e-ink displays (extremetech.com)
113 points by mrsebastian on March 29, 2012 | 45 comments

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