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1. Yes, I was hacked. Hard. (emptyage.com)
446 points by thibaut_barrere on Aug 4, 2012 | 295 comments
2. What I Hate About Git (steveko.wordpress.com)
417 points by gammarator on Aug 4, 2012 | 301 comments
3. "The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors" (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)
311 points by zdw on Aug 4, 2012 | 113 comments
4. OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As' (macperformanceguide.com)
286 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2012 | 146 comments
5. In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time (slate.com)
197 points by muratmutlu on Aug 4, 2012 | 94 comments
6. American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics (1045theteam.com)
152 points by ColinWright on Aug 4, 2012 | 52 comments
7. GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator (haskell.org)
151 points by dons on Aug 4, 2012 | 36 comments
8. Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch (nytimes.com)
143 points by mindblink on Aug 4, 2012 | 92 comments
9. Rare Are GC Talks (heroku.com)
138 points by pat_shaughnessy on Aug 4, 2012 | 39 comments
10. Tindie: like Etsy for electronics (tindie.com)
126 points by anigbrowl on Aug 4, 2012 | 37 comments
11. Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X (cocoacontrols.com)
116 points by alpb on Aug 4, 2012 | 24 comments
12. FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm (nytimes.com)
113 points by vollmarj on Aug 4, 2012 | 40 comments
13. Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever (everyday.me)
104 points by yukuan on Aug 4, 2012 | 74 comments
14. Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial (wsj.com)
102 points by grellas on Aug 4, 2012 | 95 comments
15. NASA JPL C Coding Standard [pdf] (nasa.gov)
101 points by m0nastic on Aug 4, 2012 | 60 comments
16. Facebook unfriended (economist.com)
96 points by briandear on Aug 4, 2012 | 85 comments
17. Stop UEFI (kephra.de)
91 points by kephra on Aug 4, 2012 | 81 comments
18. The Naked and the TED (tnr.com)
88 points by tijs on Aug 4, 2012 | 33 comments
19. "It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap" (yosefk.com)
84 points by dmit on Aug 4, 2012 | 29 comments
20. Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas (hbr.org)
71 points by michael_fine on Aug 4, 2012 | 45 comments
21. GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome (chrome.blogspot.se)
63 points by sreeix on Aug 4, 2012 | 37 comments
22. Quants and the crash (wired.com)
62 points by Maven911 on Aug 4, 2012 | 40 comments
23. Fun with in-engine color grading (the-witness.net)
61 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 4, 2012 | 12 comments
24. Virtual memory overhead for trees (github.com/johnj)
59 points by zippie on Aug 4, 2012 | 19 comments
25. The Linguistic Interface (lubutu.com)
58 points by lubutu on Aug 4, 2012 | 6 comments
26. Switching from jQuery Mobile to Twitter Bootstrap (pamelafox.org)
58 points by jaynate on Aug 4, 2012 | 18 comments
27. How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. (fourmilab.ch)
54 points by hmart on Aug 4, 2012 | 32 comments
28. Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals (theatlantic.com)
51 points by nikunjk on Aug 4, 2012 | 98 comments
29. 3D slider jQuery plugin (philparsons.co.uk)
49 points by philparsons on Aug 4, 2012 | 28 comments
30. Fake leap seconds being announced by NTP servers, still causing linux crashes (ntp.org)
51 points by 0x0 on Aug 4, 2012 | 13 comments

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