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1. Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
660 points by wenxun on Sept 30, 2012 | 174 comments
2. To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets (nytimes.com)
199 points by hartleybrody on Sept 30, 2012 | 205 comments
3. Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It? (singularityhub.com)
198 points by olalonde on Sept 30, 2012 | 137 comments
4. Bootstrap Toggle Buttons (github.com/nostalgiaz)
181 points by fox91 on Sept 30, 2012 | 50 comments
5. How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system (arstechnica.com)
163 points by macchina on Sept 30, 2012 | 40 comments
6. Amazon now loaning capital to sellers (amazonstrategies.com)
137 points by kapilkale on Sept 30, 2012 | 44 comments
7. Space colony art from the 1970s (publicdomainreview.org)
125 points by motters on Sept 30, 2012 | 49 comments
8. Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011) (dadgum.com)
121 points by vasco on Sept 30, 2012 | 58 comments
9. Telling people to leave finance (mathbabe.org)
115 points by adunk on Sept 30, 2012 | 101 comments
10. Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby (lettersrb.com)
105 points by djacobs on Sept 30, 2012 | 22 comments
11. Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython (morepypy.blogspot.dk)
99 points by disgruntledphd2 on Sept 30, 2012 | 51 comments
12. Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses (plosone.org)
94 points by nkurz on Sept 30, 2012 | 32 comments
13. Pixel art stickers (stickaz.com)
89 points by Youpinadi on Sept 30, 2012 | 49 comments
14. Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York?
80 points by fab2722 on Sept 30, 2012 | 62 comments
15. Code Janitor: nobody's dream, everyone's job (ferd.ca)
75 points by timf on Sept 30, 2012 | 27 comments
16. Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs (arxiv.org)
74 points by adulau on Sept 30, 2012 | 5 comments
17. Graham's Number (myscienceacademy.org)
72 points by ColinWright on Sept 30, 2012 | 23 comments
18. HTML5 Google Authenticator (github.com/gbraad)
69 points by willfarrell on Sept 30, 2012 | 19 comments
19. I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult (skeptical-science.com)
66 points by lumberjack on Sept 30, 2012 | 15 comments
20. The iPad 1 (marco.org)
64 points by creativityhurts on Sept 30, 2012 | 101 comments
21. Latent Semantic Analysis Tutorial (puffinwarellc.com)
63 points by rouli on Sept 30, 2012 | 8 comments
22. Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody (torrentfreak.com)
63 points by w1ntermute on Sept 30, 2012 | 7 comments
23. The 21st IOCCC Winners (ioccc.org)
61 points by dlowe on Sept 30, 2012 | 17 comments
24. Ask HN: An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers?
60 points by andreyvit on Sept 30, 2012 | 38 comments
25. Test Driven Development Actually Works (jphpsf.com)
58 points by jphpsf on Sept 30, 2012 | 32 comments
26. Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age? (browserage.com)
56 points by rwitoff on Sept 30, 2012 | 69 comments
27. New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss (slashdot.org)
55 points by cwan on Sept 30, 2012 | 38 comments
28. Scala NLP (scalanlp.org)
53 points by jondot on Sept 30, 2012 | 8 comments
29. A Crash Course in Information and Visual Design (throwww.com)
51 points by sfard on Sept 30, 2012 | 15 comments
30. Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives (good.is)
50 points by mijustin on Sept 30, 2012 | 48 comments

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