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1. A Hole in Mars (nasa.gov)
400 points by jamesbritt on July 18, 2012 | 110 comments
2. Wikileaks credit card donation is back (wikileaks.org)
360 points by Timshel on July 18, 2012 | 79 comments
3. Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen (networkworld.com)
340 points by gasull on July 18, 2012 | 223 comments
4. Fluid: A UI Prototyping Tool (fluidui.com)
332 points by hye on July 18, 2012 | 114 comments
5. HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans (github.com/jkbr)
312 points by jkbr on July 18, 2012 | 83 comments
6. Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers (gist.io)
286 points by idan on July 18, 2012 | 51 comments
7. Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org)
263 points by iProject on July 18, 2012 | 112 comments
8. Miles Davis – blind listening test (noisemademedoit.com)
245 points by mactac on July 18, 2012 | 64 comments
9. CSS3 meets AMC's Breaking Bad (codepen.io)
216 points by benblodgett on July 18, 2012 | 60 comments
10. GIT is the new FTP (coderwall.com)
212 points by bitsweet on July 18, 2012 | 140 comments
11. Best Papers from 27 Top-Tier Computer Science Conferences (jeffhuang.com)
192 points by jholdenm on July 18, 2012 | 57 comments
12. Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops (techcrunch.com)
178 points by _asuk on July 18, 2012 | 141 comments
13. Oracle spreading FUD about CentOS (bashton.com)
173 points by bashtoni on July 18, 2012 | 69 comments
14. In Denmark, Pedaling to Work on a Superhighway (nytimes.com)
172 points by mkramer05 on July 18, 2012 | 132 comments
15. EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit (eff.org)
158 points by mtgx on July 18, 2012 | 29 comments
16. Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS" (oracle.com)
157 points by wdaher on July 18, 2012 | 212 comments
17. German Scientists Create Aerographite, the Lightest Material in the World (sciencespacerobots.com)
152 points by japaget on July 18, 2012 | 46 comments
18. Operating System Development (osdev.org)
141 points by Zolomon on July 18, 2012 | 27 comments
19. Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn’t Copy IPad In U.K. (bloomberg.com)
124 points by lightspot on July 18, 2012 | 136 comments
20. The Value of Time (jackg.org)
117 points by bigjoecumbo on July 18, 2012 | 54 comments
21. How Pivotal Labs use Tmux for remote pair programming (pivotallabs.com)
113 points by jodosha on July 18, 2012 | 31 comments
22. How VCs get paid (jtangovc.com)
110 points by haxplorer on July 18, 2012 | 13 comments
23. Dotcom judge quits the case (nzherald.co.nz)
101 points by te_chris on July 18, 2012 | 36 comments
24. BlackGirlsCode Raises $21,000 To Fund Summer Of Code Program (techli.com)
101 points by MRonney on July 18, 2012 | 161 comments
25. Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else (duckduckgoog.com)
95 points by mcrittenden on July 18, 2012 | 63 comments
26. Web App Security Best Practices (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)
88 points by jamessocol on July 18, 2012 | 32 comments
27. Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype (networkworld.com)
82 points by ot on July 18, 2012 | 24 comments
28. Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (ssrn.com)
81 points by cjdrake on July 18, 2012 | 26 comments
29. Common problems with large file uploads (filepicker.io)
72 points by ananddass on July 18, 2012 | 34 comments
30. Raspberry Pi launched by balloon broadcasts images from 40km high (raspberrypi.org)
68 points by kokey on July 18, 2012 | 4 comments

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