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1. Great work Visa, now I hate you (modern-products.tumblr.com)
551 points by roee on Aug 6, 2012 | 261 comments
2. A Man Walks into a Bank (ft.com)
479 points by jkharness87 on Aug 6, 2012 | 175 comments
3. Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune (kalzumeus.com)
409 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 6, 2012 | 154 comments
4. NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing (nasa.gov)
267 points by DavidSJ on Aug 6, 2012 | 94 comments
5. One Thousand Dollars an Hour (samsoff.es)
258 points by jamesjyu on Aug 6, 2012 | 155 comments
6. Github: Notifications & Stars (github.com/blog)
257 points by telemachos on Aug 6, 2012 | 84 comments
7. Photo shows Mars rover descent (bbc.co.uk)
187 points by zoowar on Aug 6, 2012 | 59 comments
8. How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works (about-robots.com)
174 points by 0xbadcafebee on Aug 6, 2012 | 96 comments
9. Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government (torrentfreak.com)
141 points by rkudeshi on Aug 6, 2012 | 181 comments
10. Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified (statwing.com)
135 points by glaugh on Aug 6, 2012 | 50 comments
11. Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago (viniciusvacanti.com)
132 points by vacanti on Aug 6, 2012 | 28 comments
12. Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey (cemerick.com)
125 points by mattdeboard on Aug 6, 2012 | 40 comments
13. Huffshell: You probably type too much. (paulmckellar.com)
119 points by socmoth on Aug 6, 2012 | 54 comments
14. I didn't learn programming when I was 12 (kennyletran.com)
109 points by kennyt on Aug 6, 2012 | 80 comments
15. Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd (datadoghq.com)
107 points by Vvick727 on Aug 6, 2012 | 50 comments
16. Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight (ieee.org)
102 points by eguizzo on Aug 6, 2012 | 16 comments
17. What is the Mars Curiosity Rover's software built in? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
99 points by joshuahedlund on Aug 6, 2012 | 28 comments
18. The Power of Negative Thinking (nytimes.com)
97 points by PaulMcCartney on Aug 6, 2012 | 28 comments
19. MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iOS Game Developers (techcrunch.com)
93 points by DesaiAshu on Aug 6, 2012 | 44 comments
20. Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks (wikipedia.org)
93 points by bradgessler on Aug 6, 2012 | 44 comments
21. Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to the cloud" (france24.com)
93 points by esolyt on Aug 6, 2012 | 47 comments
22. X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X (imore.com)
90 points by codedivine on Aug 6, 2012 | 119 comments
23. Elevator Dispatch Algorithms (smartplanet.com)
87 points by kumarski on Aug 6, 2012 | 23 comments
24. The First Simple Symmetric 11-Venn Diagram found (uvic.ca)
86 points by Rickasaurus on Aug 6, 2012 | 19 comments
25. How to get an Internet connection to a field for a hacker camping festival (emfcamp.org)
85 points by jonty on Aug 6, 2012 | 13 comments
26. As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube (arstechnica.com)
82 points by evo_9 on Aug 6, 2012 | 23 comments
27. 3D-printed exoskeleton helps young girl use her arms (futuretimeline.net)
82 points by Dinoguy1000 on Aug 6, 2012 | 17 comments
28. Space isn't ours. (flax.ie)
82 points by hebejebelus on Aug 6, 2012 | 75 comments
29. War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties (9to5mac.com)
79 points by Empro on Aug 6, 2012 | 69 comments
30. Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes (jgc.org)
78 points by jgrahamc on Aug 6, 2012 | 14 comments

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