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1. There is something magical about Firefox OS (rawkes.com)
445 points by robhawkes on Sept 13, 2012 | 258 comments
2. Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5 (thenextweb.com)
398 points by countessa on Sept 13, 2012 | 252 comments
3. Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo (nytimes.com)
320 points by unfoldedorigami on Sept 13, 2012 | 120 comments
4. Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript (dropbox.com)
290 points by varenc on Sept 13, 2012 | 193 comments
5. OSX password script for everyone to know (songz.me)
227 points by songzme on Sept 13, 2012 | 90 comments
6. Ancient flower lives only on two Spanish cliffs, and uses ants to survive (discovermagazine.com)
220 points by suprgeek on Sept 13, 2012 | 10 comments
7. Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’ (thenextweb.com)
220 points by talhof8 on Sept 13, 2012 | 102 comments
8. Google's "Bacon number" search (google.com)
200 points by nsns on Sept 13, 2012 | 82 comments
9. Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs” (unfinishedman.com)
191 points by cbarnsdale on Sept 13, 2012 | 145 comments
10. Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future) (unlimitednovelty.com)
189 points by saurabh on Sept 13, 2012 | 125 comments
11. Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking (arstechnica.com)
162 points by aspratley on Sept 13, 2012 | 32 comments
12. The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end? (justinhileman.info)
160 points by KuraFire on Sept 13, 2012 | 92 comments
13. Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates (andyet.net)
152 points by adambrault on Sept 13, 2012 | 87 comments
14. Will Go be the new go-to programming language? (gigaom.com)
137 points by mtgx on Sept 13, 2012 | 183 comments
15. Why Quora Won't Scale (socialtimes.com)
129 points by desbest on Sept 13, 2012 | 77 comments
16. Show HN: A Handcrafted Web (scrollkit.com)
131 points by kateray on Sept 13, 2012 | 82 comments
17. Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)
129 points by cwilson on Sept 13, 2012 | 78 comments
18. J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime (code.google.com)
108 points by jamesjyu on Sept 13, 2012 | 41 comments
19. Balsamiq 2.2 is here (balsamiq.com)
105 points by benackles on Sept 13, 2012 | 37 comments
20. Hotel-room hacks: Picking the lock (economist.com)
96 points by ljensen on Sept 13, 2012 | 69 comments
21. Show HN: Matches.js -- Powerful Pattern Matching for Javascript (github.com/natefaubion)
96 points by natefaubion on Sept 13, 2012 | 20 comments
22. Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity (indiatimes.com)
96 points by azarias on Sept 13, 2012 | 17 comments
23. How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? (slashdot.org)
90 points by LVB on Sept 13, 2012 | 50 comments
24. How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt (filepicker.io)
85 points by liyanchang on Sept 13, 2012 | 30 comments
25. The Creation of the Unix Operating System (bell-labs.com)
77 points by evolve2k on Sept 13, 2012 | 9 comments
26. Django Best Practices — Updated for 1.4 (lincolnloop.com)
80 points by superchink on Sept 13, 2012 | 19 comments
27. My Madison Ruby Story (marginaldialogue.blogspot.com)
79 points by jremsikjr on Sept 13, 2012 | 28 comments
28. I Haven't Quit Twitter - Twitter Quit Me (shkspr.mobi)
75 points by edent on Sept 13, 2012 | 42 comments
29. Google Glass and the Future of Technology (nytimes.com)
72 points by dean on Sept 13, 2012 | 50 comments
30. Google threatened Acer with Android excommunication (slashgear.com)
68 points by headShrinker on Sept 13, 2012 | 62 comments

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