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1. I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do? (iamnotaprogrammer.com)
371 points by sudonim on July 28, 2012 | 182 comments
2. Garzik: An Andre To Remember (lwn.net)
233 points by asto on July 28, 2012 | 72 comments
3. iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon (hollylisle.com)
220 points by Turing_Machine on July 28, 2012 | 112 comments
4. Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion (blogoverflow.com)
199 points by telemachos on July 28, 2012 | 22 comments
5. The Disappointing Surprise From Apple (amberweinberg.com)
184 points by Udo on July 28, 2012 | 145 comments
6. The Internet Map (internet-map.net)
182 points by m0th87 on July 28, 2012 | 46 comments
7. ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion (github.com/mathiasbynens)
169 points by mathias on July 28, 2012 | 90 comments
8. Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony (zdnet.com)
160 points by avolcano on July 28, 2012 | 90 comments
9. Please Don’t Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night (techcrunch.com)
157 points by jpadilla_ on July 28, 2012 | 93 comments
10. OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way (espians.com)
144 points by llambda on July 28, 2012 | 24 comments
11. I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process (euphonious-intuition.com)
133 points by polyfractal on July 28, 2012 | 17 comments
12. On Living Below Your Potential (novelog.com)
122 points by thatusertwo on July 28, 2012 | 86 comments
13. Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter (nytimes.com)
116 points by iProject on July 28, 2012 | 58 comments
14. US Census API now available (census.gov)
113 points by dangoldin on July 28, 2012 | 22 comments
15. Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records (mashable.com)
110 points by neya on July 28, 2012 | 127 comments
16. NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers (cnet.com)
108 points by khakimov on July 28, 2012 | 61 comments
17. An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem (yudkowsky.net)
100 points by pizza on July 28, 2012 | 37 comments
18. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (brainpickings.org)
93 points by johnr8201 on July 28, 2012 | 21 comments
19. AppFog Pricing Released (appfog.com)
90 points by paukiatwee on July 28, 2012 | 75 comments
20. OAuth 2.0 standard editor quits, takes name off spec (theregister.co.uk)
90 points by llambda on July 28, 2012 | 9 comments
21. Microsoft’s Lost Decade (vanityfair.com)
87 points by f3r3nc on July 28, 2012 | 50 comments
22. $10 In-N-Out delivery to anywhere in SF (burgerto.me)
82 points by railsjedi on July 28, 2012 | 55 comments
23. Vim - The file explorer (vimcasts.org)
84 points by simonreed on July 28, 2012 | 11 comments
24. Is this the future of Project Glass? (geek.com)
82 points by ukdm on July 28, 2012 | 34 comments
25. The Word Count Problem (peterdonis.com)
69 points by pdonis on July 28, 2012 | 59 comments
26. German Student Defies Google C&D with 1 Million Signatures (readwriteweb.com)
60 points by iProject on July 28, 2012 | 33 comments
27. Pathod: A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software (cortesi.github.com)
54 points by cesther on July 28, 2012 | 14 comments
28. Two HTML Standards Diverge in a Wood (webmonkey.com)
52 points by darkxanthos on July 28, 2012 | 19 comments
29. As Social Sites’ Shares Fall, Some Hear Echo of 2000 (nytimes.com)
51 points by llambda on July 28, 2012 | 43 comments
30. Ask HN: On Rob Pike's Concurrency is not Parallelism?
51 points by lazydon on July 28, 2012 | 70 comments

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