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1. AMA with Barack Obama (reddit.com)
493 points by duck on Aug 29, 2012 | 250 comments
2. 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (fastcompany.com)
468 points by endtwist on Aug 29, 2012 | 228 comments
3. GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X (petapixel.com)
376 points by maciej on Aug 29, 2012 | 178 comments
4. What killed the Linux desktop (tirania.org)
344 points by foolano on Aug 29, 2012 | 378 comments
5. Walking out of an interview (workplace.stackexchange.com)
265 points by DanielShir on Aug 29, 2012 | 248 comments
6. Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food (bloomberg.com)
234 points by codelion on Aug 29, 2012 | 185 comments
7. HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0 (html5boilerplate.com)
212 points by necolas on Aug 29, 2012 | 51 comments
8. Controversial programming opinions (blogoverflow.com)
200 points by Sammyadems on Aug 29, 2012 | 171 comments
9. IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory. (ibm.com)
192 points by TallGuyShort on Aug 29, 2012 | 82 comments
10. Deploying at GitHub (github.com/blog)
182 points by samps on Aug 29, 2012 | 59 comments
11. Keep a programming journal (gist.github.com)
171 points by feyyaz on Aug 29, 2012 | 101 comments
12. The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux (zdnet.com)
169 points by CrankyBear on Aug 29, 2012 | 91 comments
13. Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982 (att.com)
157 points by fogus on Aug 29, 2012 | 76 comments
14. American law is patent nonsense (ft.com)
130 points by callum85 on Aug 29, 2012 | 51 comments
15. Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js (trek.github.com)
127 points by tomdale on Aug 29, 2012 | 68 comments
16. MongoDB 2.2.0 Released (mongodb.org)
129 points by francesca on Aug 29, 2012 | 60 comments
17. Bill Buxton: Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known (1982) (billbuxton.com)
115 points by johnx123-up on Aug 29, 2012 | 23 comments
18. Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort (pvk.ca)
109 points by dduck on Aug 29, 2012 | 5 comments
19. New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve (blog.wordpress.com)
109 points by superchink on Aug 29, 2012 | 29 comments
20. What 10gen nailed with MongoDB (calv.info)
109 points by calvinfo on Aug 29, 2012 | 84 comments
21. How Reddit Got Obama (allthingsd.com)
103 points by rkudeshi on Aug 29, 2012 | 100 comments
22. The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled The Valley (techcrunch.com)
99 points by kine on Aug 29, 2012 | 49 comments
23. Linux Commands for Developers (jayfields.com)
98 points by vamsee on Aug 29, 2012 | 64 comments
24. How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions (homakov.blogspot.com)
96 points by homakov on Aug 29, 2012 | 32 comments
25. Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates (paidcontent.org)
94 points by iProject on Aug 29, 2012 | 57 comments
26. The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages (github.com/seanpowell)
88 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2012 | 23 comments
27. Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders (coding.fm)
81 points by valceder on Aug 29, 2012 | 68 comments
28. Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding (techdirt.com)
77 points by mtgx on Aug 29, 2012 | 41 comments
29. Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page (limitedrun.com)
74 points by duck on Aug 29, 2012 | 39 comments
30. Bringing Google+ to work (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
75 points by eneveu on Aug 29, 2012 | 80 comments

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