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1. "100% of our production system is now running Go" (groups.google.com)
297 points by enneff on Aug 31, 2012 | 182 comments
2. Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop (wikiloopr.com)
295 points by seangransee on Aug 31, 2012 | 161 comments
3. Just Scroll (nissan.co.jp)
277 points by koichi on Aug 31, 2012 | 102 comments
4. Flynn’s IQ (bryanappleyard.com)
197 points by tortilla on Aug 31, 2012 | 135 comments
5. Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook (dailycred.tumblr.com)
193 points by cookingrobot on Aug 31, 2012 | 95 comments
6. Probabilistic Many-to-Many Relationships (with Bloom Filters) (zacharyvoase.com)
180 points by zacharyvoase on Aug 31, 2012 | 39 comments
7. What powers Etsy (etsy.com)
166 points by johnzimmerman on Aug 31, 2012 | 44 comments
8. Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support (aws.typepad.com)
164 points by jeffbarr on Aug 31, 2012 | 44 comments
9. It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever (dailygood.org)
161 points by spreadlove on Aug 31, 2012 | 72 comments
10. Selling Yourself (hbr.org)
145 points by fifilc on Aug 31, 2012 | 34 comments
11. Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court (in.com)
140 points by factorialboy on Aug 31, 2012 | 70 comments
12. Open webOS Beta Officially Released (openwebosproject.org)
137 points by mikecane on Aug 31, 2012 | 25 comments
13. Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman Shows He Doesn't Understand Prior Art (techdirt.com)
136 points by mtgx on Aug 31, 2012 | 92 comments
14. Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers (phoronix.com)
132 points by macco on Aug 31, 2012 | 52 comments
15. Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon (beatmaticapp.com)
130 points by seertaak on Aug 31, 2012 | 58 comments
16. Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? (dsog.info)
120 points by knighthacker on Aug 31, 2012 | 138 comments
17. The humans who outrun horses (smh.com.au)
110 points by olalonde on Aug 31, 2012 | 72 comments
18. How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust (makezine.com)
110 points by scottshea on Aug 31, 2012 | 62 comments
19. I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti (r-wos.org)
108 points by colinprince on Aug 31, 2012 | 60 comments
20. Learn how to code a Facebook app in 20 minutes with PythonAnywhere (pythonanywhere.com)
108 points by aychedee on Aug 31, 2012 | 11 comments
21. Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?
107 points by offer_today on Aug 31, 2012 | 122 comments
22. Microsoft updates their Terms of Service to an easily readable Q&A format (microsoft.com)
106 points by spauka on Aug 31, 2012 | 24 comments
23. Stop producing shit (mariusandra.com)
107 points by mariusandra on Aug 31, 2012 | 67 comments
24. An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers (lubutu.com)
104 points by lubutu on Aug 31, 2012 | 65 comments
25. Introducing human.io (schachter.org)
103 points by nikunjk on Aug 31, 2012 | 102 comments
26. The Switch from Heroku to Hardware (justcramer.com)
100 points by zeeg on Aug 31, 2012 | 51 comments
27. Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing (extroverteddeveloper.com)
92 points by maayank on Aug 31, 2012 | 65 comments
28. Building Atari With CreateJS (atari.com)
86 points by fatjonny on Aug 31, 2012 | 11 comments
29. Mailrox - a web app to quickly build bulletproof HTML emails (mailrox.com)
83 points by vacipr on Aug 31, 2012 | 48 comments
30. Please Stop Working on Ads (diegobasch.com)
83 points by nachopg on Aug 31, 2012 | 75 comments

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