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1. 256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id (codepen.io)
412 points by alpb on Aug 15, 2012 | 90 comments
2. Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative) (indiegogo.com)
326 points by SanderMak on Aug 15, 2012 | 81 comments
3. The first Django site to run on Python 3 (myks.org)
283 points by mYk on Aug 15, 2012 | 53 comments
4. What I Hate About Working At Facebook (worldofsu.com)
273 points by dshankar on Aug 15, 2012 | 183 comments
5. Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS (codepen.io)
243 points by michaelkscott on Aug 15, 2012 | 65 comments
6. Fly to 6 Continents in Style (flightfox.com)
240 points by laumac on Aug 15, 2012 | 81 comments
7. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (andrewchen.co)
226 points by dko on Aug 15, 2012 | 90 comments
8. The Making of Warcraft, Part 2 (codeofhonor.com)
213 points by mcfunley on Aug 15, 2012 | 14 comments
9. Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database (arstechnica.com)
196 points by smartician on Aug 15, 2012 | 132 comments
10. UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange (bbc.co.uk)
188 points by Simon_M on Aug 15, 2012 | 267 comments
11. How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness (penny-arcade.com)
184 points by PixelRobot on Aug 15, 2012 | 124 comments
12. Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud (kickstarter.com)
174 points by urza on Aug 15, 2012 | 51 comments
13. Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) (schneier.com)
166 points by selenamarie on Aug 15, 2012 | 259 comments
14. MySQL vs PostgreSQL (wikivs.com)
160 points by llambda on Aug 15, 2012 | 104 comments
15. Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators (rt.com)
156 points by MrBlue on Aug 15, 2012 | 82 comments
16. Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 (amazon.com)
155 points by matthewlmcclure on Aug 15, 2012 | 103 comments
17. ViaCycle (YC S12) Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon (techcrunch.com)
150 points by koji on Aug 15, 2012 | 134 comments
18. Normalize.css v1.0.0 (necolas.github.com)
146 points by necolas on Aug 15, 2012 | 30 comments
19. MPEG claims its new standard H.265 halves video bandwidth with no quality loss (itwire.com)
143 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 15, 2012 | 124 comments
20. Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released (msdn.com)
143 points by cygwin98 on Aug 15, 2012 | 78 comments
21. GCC switches from C to C++ (gcc.gnu.org)
142 points by Xyzodiac on Aug 15, 2012 | 109 comments
22. Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes (owningyourshit.blogspot.ca)
132 points by iProject on Aug 15, 2012 | 54 comments
23. Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed (techcrunch.com)
137 points by spathak on Aug 15, 2012 | 60 comments
24. Flash Player exits Android (bbc.com)
132 points by equilibrium on Aug 15, 2012 | 72 comments
25. Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher (daringfireball.net)
123 points by raganesh on Aug 15, 2012 | 91 comments
26. R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat (io9.com)
118 points by uladzislau on Aug 15, 2012 | 18 comments
27. Uber allowed to continue operating in Boston (mass.gov)
114 points by nelhage on Aug 15, 2012 | 23 comments
28. Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site (techfounder.net)
98 points by pytrin on Aug 15, 2012 | 86 comments
29. Avgrund: a modal concept, designed to show depth (hakim.se)
92 points by ujeezy on Aug 15, 2012 | 17 comments
30. Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor (writelatex.com)
92 points by nkoren on Aug 15, 2012 | 43 comments

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