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1. The Apple Reaper (coovtech.com)
288 points by azcoastal on Sept 18, 2012 | 104 comments
2. Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)
279 points by olalonde on Sept 18, 2012 | 225 comments
3. Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo (instagram.com)
230 points by shill on Sept 18, 2012 | 118 comments
4. Kickstarter vaporware of the day, Lifx edition (reuters.com)
226 points by justincormack on Sept 18, 2012 | 178 comments
5. Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay (rackspace.com)
230 points by melsmo on Sept 18, 2012 | 81 comments
6. German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer (googleusercontent.com)
220 points by _ikke_ on Sept 18, 2012 | 52 comments
7. Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github (scribd.com)
213 points by BummerCloud on Sept 18, 2012 | 177 comments
8. Divshot (divshot.com)
207 points by lukethomas on Sept 18, 2012 | 111 comments
9. Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings (yahoo.com)
170 points by thenextcorner on Sept 18, 2012 | 152 comments
10. A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan (newscientist.com)
167 points by kisamoto on Sept 18, 2012 | 43 comments
11. Startup idea list
161 points by duck on Sept 18, 2012 | 267 comments
12. Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open (inburke.com)
156 points by stanleydrew on Sept 18, 2012 | 79 comments
13. Teller on theft in magic (esquire.com)
156 points by robmil on Sept 18, 2012 | 77 comments
14. Show HN: EasyPost - the Stripe for postage (easypost.co)
157 points by jstreebin on Sept 18, 2012 | 83 comments
15. The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology (2011) (bhorowitz.com)
155 points by 001sky on Sept 18, 2012 | 33 comments
16. GitHub Launch Page (github.com/blog)
142 points by bpierre on Sept 18, 2012 | 37 comments
17. How To Die With No Regrets (amirkhella.com)
136 points by amirkhella on Sept 18, 2012 | 81 comments
18. App Store Bit Rot (undsoversum.de)
127 points by kronawetter on Sept 18, 2012 | 53 comments
19. Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today (coursera.org)
124 points by pohl on Sept 18, 2012 | 55 comments
20. Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing (hilarymason.com)
113 points by ColinWright on Sept 18, 2012 | 99 comments
21. This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job (mashable.com)
110 points by allangrant on Sept 18, 2012 | 67 comments
22. Say Hello to Realtime Collaboration (cssdeck.com)
107 points by binarydreams on Sept 18, 2012 | 44 comments
23. PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal (igorgue.com)
105 points by auston on Sept 18, 2012 | 34 comments
24. Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6 (humblebundle.com)
101 points by vibragiel on Sept 18, 2012 | 70 comments
25. Red Herring awards: a scam? (techinasia.com)
84 points by abhimir on Sept 18, 2012 | 27 comments
26. How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool (pandodaily.com)
78 points by protomyth on Sept 18, 2012 | 53 comments
27. Editing text is the opposite of handling exceptions (bosker.wordpress.com)
72 points by ColinWright on Sept 18, 2012 | 13 comments
28. Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept (sandia.gov)
72 points by kposehn on Sept 18, 2012 | 44 comments
29. Rod Brooks Reveals Baxter, Programmable Industrial Robot for the Masses (xconomy.com)
72 points by robertbud1 on Sept 18, 2012 | 25 comments
30. Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance (boundary.com)
70 points by spahl on Sept 18, 2012 | 82 comments

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