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31. John Carmack, Kudos to Valve but Linux is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market (ubuntuvibes.com)
47 points by dartttt on Aug 4, 2012 | 56 comments
32. Ask HN: How to learn web scalability?
42 points by syberslidder on Aug 4, 2012 | 19 comments
33. Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs? (time.com)
40 points by garbowza on Aug 4, 2012 | 63 comments
34. Is It Time to Rethink the Stigma for Tech Companies Led by Couples? (allthingsd.com)
40 points by snp on Aug 4, 2012 | 16 comments
35. Typist - Add animated typing text to any block element (davidcrawford.github.com)
38 points by dcraw on Aug 4, 2012 | 10 comments
36. _.m: A port of Underscore.js to Objective C (github.com/kmalakoff)
37 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 4, 2012 | 34 comments
37. I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now? (arstechnica.com)
37 points by nsns on Aug 4, 2012 | 36 comments
38. The future of "C# in Depth" (msmvps.com)
35 points by bussetta on Aug 4, 2012 | 3 comments
39. The planets of our solar system viewed in the Moon's orbit (geek.com)
35 points by ukdm on Aug 4, 2012 | 11 comments
40. Passwords, Backups and a false sense of security (julieng.me)
31 points by eliaskg on Aug 4, 2012 | 31 comments
41. People Who Think Programming Is Shit Are Missing The Point (e2open.org)
30 points by tomse on Aug 4, 2012 | 12 comments
42. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson (arxiv.org)
29 points by mepcotterell on Aug 4, 2012 | 10 comments
43. Higgs Papers Out (discovermagazine.com)
23 points by ww520 on Aug 4, 2012 | 2 comments
44. Who to blame for failed IPOs? (techcrunch.com)
22 points by akos on Aug 4, 2012 | 18 comments
45. Tutorial for building Rubik's cube using CSS3 3D transform (html5rubik.com)
21 points by quan on Aug 4, 2012 | 5 comments
46. Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don't Realize It) (theatlantic.com)
21 points by tankenmate on Aug 4, 2012 | 17 comments
47. Ask HN: SMS-enabling an app for a startup
22 points by DanielBMarkham on Aug 4, 2012 | 32 comments
48. There's a hackathon in the Philippines this 25th of August (marvinvista.blogspot.com)
20 points by mrvista on Aug 4, 2012 | 2 comments
49. Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading (wired.com)
18 points by lnguyen on Aug 4, 2012
50. Sociability's value comes from privacy (boingboing.net)
17 points by daeken on Aug 4, 2012 | 5 comments
51. HTC’s Android dream in tatters as HTC One sales disappoint (wmpoweruser.com)
17 points by cooldeal on Aug 4, 2012 | 42 comments
52. Simple (Formerly BankSimple) Review (hoverpig.net)
16 points by cylo on Aug 4, 2012 | 5 comments
53. Ask HN: Any space for a micro-website for portable discussions.
15 points by sherjilozair on Aug 4, 2012 | 34 comments
54. QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote (youtube.com)
14 points by ivank on Aug 4, 2012 | 1 comment
55. Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? (ieee.org)
14 points by akh on Aug 4, 2012 | 9 comments
56. The company that spooked the world (economist.com)
14 points by tomkindle on Aug 4, 2012
57. Ask PG: An incubator to teach programming to street kids in Turkey
12 points by nyist on Aug 4, 2012 | 18 comments
58. SQL injection attacks jumped 69% in Q2 (infosecurity-magazine.com)
11 points by iProject on Aug 4, 2012 | 3 comments
59. Is Big Data the Next Billion-Dollar Technology Industry? (financialsense.com)
11 points by SuperChihuahua on Aug 4, 2012 | 4 comments
60. Transcribe: An awesome audio-transcription Web app for Chrome (thenextweb.com)
11 points by jabo on Aug 4, 2012

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