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1. Bootstrap 2.1 released (getbootstrap.com)
413 points by patrickaljord on Aug 21, 2012 | 137 comments
2. Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings (discussions.apple.com)
398 points by jpswade on Aug 21, 2012 | 142 comments
3. Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website. (crranky.com)
383 points by zipop on Aug 21, 2012 | 117 comments
4. What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing (brooklynhacker.com)
260 points by coloneltcb on Aug 21, 2012 | 67 comments
5. How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) (keen.io)
261 points by wetzler on Aug 21, 2012 | 220 comments
6. Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino (twilio.com)
252 points by jonmarkgo on Aug 21, 2012 | 32 comments
7. Tesla Museum Gets Funded (indiegogo.com)
238 points by amirmansour on Aug 21, 2012 | 51 comments
8. How to Get a Job as a Developer in Less Than Six Months (learnwithjeff.com)
220 points by reubenpressman on Aug 21, 2012 | 174 comments
9. Show HN: I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory (getnifty.com)
171 points by sundaypancakes on Aug 21, 2012 | 82 comments
10. Ask PG: What made you change your mind about crowdfunding?
166 points by dmarinoc on Aug 21, 2012 | 15 comments
11. Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach (gkosev.blogspot.com)
155 points by spion on Aug 21, 2012 | 102 comments
12. 4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer (ciembor.github.com)
147 points by ciembor on Aug 21, 2012 | 33 comments
13. Minecraft experiment devolves into devastating resource war (pcgamer.com)
143 points by SuperChihuahua on Aug 21, 2012 | 48 comments
14. Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest (stackoverflow.com)
143 points by moserware on Aug 21, 2012 | 61 comments
15. Task tracking for nerds (hollyapp.com)
128 points by tfjgeorge on Aug 21, 2012 | 74 comments
16. I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day... (instagram.com)
125 points by pjsullivan3 on Aug 21, 2012 | 101 comments
17. Cdnjs - the missing cdn (cdnjs.com)
124 points by ryankirkman on Aug 21, 2012 | 74 comments
18. Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger (arstechnica.com)
115 points by e1ven on Aug 21, 2012 | 74 comments
19. Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World — IBM Is (techcrunch.com)
113 points by irunbackwards on Aug 21, 2012 | 76 comments
20. How I Taught Myself Python/Django in 8 Weekends (yipit.com)
113 points by vacanti on Aug 21, 2012 | 17 comments
21. Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators (aappublications.org)
110 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2012 | 65 comments
22. PC obsolescence is obsolete (extremetech.com)
101 points by evo_9 on Aug 21, 2012 | 121 comments
23. Finding Unity in the Math Wars (betterexplained.com)
101 points by kalid on Aug 21, 2012 | 21 comments
24. How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read (mentalfloss.com)
99 points by NickPollard on Aug 21, 2012 | 20 comments
25. Monads in pictures (newartisans.com)
98 points by chrislo on Aug 21, 2012 | 24 comments
26. Windows 8 gets Personal Use License for anyone building their own PC (geek.com)
96 points by ukdm on Aug 21, 2012 | 74 comments
27. One Night With Clojure Makes a Scala Guy Humble | Agile Zone (dzone.com)
83 points by rohshall on Aug 21, 2012 | 50 comments
28. Rails, callbacks, workers, and the race you never expected to lose (logicalfriday.com)
76 points by appleton on Aug 21, 2012 | 27 comments
29. YC Demo Day Bingo Welcome the newest YC batch (thedailymuse.com)
74 points by KMinshew on Aug 21, 2012 | 13 comments
30. PopCap Update (popcap.com)
73 points by philk10 on Aug 21, 2012 | 30 comments

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