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1. Delegate or die: the self-employed trap (sivers.org)
262 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 18, 2012 | 61 comments
2. Garry Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police (rian.ru)
238 points by neya on Aug 18, 2012 | 154 comments
3. How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC (techcrunch.com)
209 points by olivercameron on Aug 18, 2012 | 125 comments
4. RIP Open Source MySQL (slashdot.org)
169 points by mariuz on Aug 18, 2012 | 99 comments
5. Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work (bhorowitz.com)
152 points by louhong on Aug 18, 2012 | 156 comments
6. Github just hit 2 million users. (github.com)
143 points by _qucc on Aug 18, 2012 | 36 comments
7. NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch (wired.com)
123 points by akent on Aug 18, 2012 | 37 comments
8. Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (lessthandot.com)
118 points by ycombwin on Aug 18, 2012 | 32 comments
9. Custom Sublime Text Build Systems For Popular Tools And Languages (addyosmani.com)
99 points by jemeshsu on Aug 18, 2012 | 7 comments
10. The Cost of a Logo (huhmagazine.co.uk)
101 points by damian2000 on Aug 18, 2012 | 34 comments
11. Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center (gigaom.com)
94 points by philip1209 on Aug 18, 2012 | 22 comments
12. The Panic Over Fukushima (wsj.com)
92 points by aakil on Aug 18, 2012 | 106 comments
13. Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video) (archive.org)
91 points by keiferski on Aug 18, 2012 | 29 comments
14. To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country (theatlantic.com)
86 points by NeilRShah on Aug 18, 2012 | 105 comments
15. Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move (kottke.org)
85 points by luckylemon on Aug 18, 2012 | 28 comments
16. India To Biometrically Identify All Of Its 1.2 Billion Citizens (singularityhub.com)
84 points by millerski150 on Aug 18, 2012 | 66 comments
17. Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last (droid-life.com)
81 points by irunbackwards on Aug 18, 2012 | 14 comments
18. Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system (liquidtext.net)
82 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 18, 2012 | 29 comments
19. How a Tick Bite Made Me Allergic to Meat (discovermagazine.com)
79 points by robg on Aug 18, 2012 | 42 comments
20. Madcap Recap (startupchumps.com)
71 points by playhard on Aug 18, 2012 | 14 comments
21. JavaScript for Cats - An introduction for new programmers (jsforcats.com)
73 points by dwynings on Aug 18, 2012 | 24 comments
22. Thoughts on Acqui-hires & Soft Landings (daslee.me)
68 points by olivercameron on Aug 18, 2012 | 12 comments
23. Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users (voicegem.com)
68 points by abless on Aug 18, 2012 | 20 comments
24. GNU GDB 7.5 brings Go support, reverse debugging on ARM (sourceware.org)
66 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 18, 2012 | 6 comments
25. Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
66 points by MatthewPhillips on Aug 18, 2012 | 1 comment
26. The category design pattern (haskellforall.com)
64 points by profquail on Aug 18, 2012 | 22 comments
27. Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro (phoronix.com)
64 points by disgruntledphd2 on Aug 18, 2012 | 81 comments
28. Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source) (pasteboard.co)
64 points by JoelBesada on Aug 18, 2012 | 42 comments
29. Maintaining CSS Style States using "Infinite" Transition Delays (joelb.me)
62 points by iambot on Aug 18, 2012 | 17 comments
30. The Measured Man (theatlantic.com)
61 points by harscoat on Aug 18, 2012 | 7 comments

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