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1. Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (plus.google.com)
365 points by kungfudoi on Aug 10, 2012 | 180 comments
2. You'll never be Chinese (haohaoreport.com)
340 points by ilamont on Aug 10, 2012 | 177 comments
3. How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (michaelnielsen.org)
323 points by cing on Aug 10, 2012 | 67 comments
4. Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser (browserver.org)
308 points by jedschmidt on Aug 10, 2012 | 63 comments
5. Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+ (patriciopalladino.com)
289 points by alcuadrado on Aug 10, 2012 | 51 comments
6. How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist (bentilly.blogspot.com)
290 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 10, 2012 | 99 comments
7. New York Underground (nationalgeographic.com)
283 points by sehrope on Aug 10, 2012 | 83 comments
8. Things I didn’t know about the WebKit inspector (joocode.com)
247 points by copesc on Aug 10, 2012 | 51 comments
9. Entrepreneurs Tell The White House To Focus On Innovation, Not IP Enforcement (techdirt.com)
232 points by mtgx on Aug 10, 2012 | 58 comments
10. Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies (eligibleapi.com)
218 points by kategleason on Aug 10, 2012 | 92 comments
11. Russ Olsen: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (informit.com)
214 points by swannodette on Aug 10, 2012 | 60 comments
12. Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s (nasa.gov)
193 points by kghose on Aug 10, 2012 | 85 comments
13. Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures (thekickbackmachine.com)
187 points by misener on Aug 10, 2012 | 63 comments
14. College was my biggest mistake (stevecorona.com)
170 points by sachitgupta on Aug 10, 2012 | 182 comments
15. Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity (wsj.com)
168 points by rdamico on Aug 10, 2012 | 99 comments
16. Show HN: Tweetsheets – Twitter directly from within Google Docs (die.socialisten.at)
160 points by andreasklinger on Aug 10, 2012 | 15 comments
17. My biggest problem with Vim (haldean.org)
144 points by haldean on Aug 10, 2012 | 184 comments
18. The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day) (distributionhacks.com)
126 points by dmor on Aug 10, 2012 | 58 comments
19. A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (over finite fields) (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
118 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2012 | 32 comments
20. So long, silicon: Researchers create solar panels from cheap copper oxide (extremetech.com)
117 points by maxko87 on Aug 10, 2012 | 40 comments
21. D3.js 2.10 Unleashed. (github.com/mbostock)
116 points by googletron on Aug 10, 2012 | 16 comments
22. Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it. (bloc.io)
121 points by hanibash on Aug 10, 2012 | 167 comments
23. A First Course in Linear Algebra (ups.edu)
114 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2012 | 37 comments
24. Nobody Cares (bennesvig.com)
112 points by bennesvig on Aug 10, 2012 | 69 comments
25. Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (msdn.com)
110 points by dwynings on Aug 10, 2012 | 9 comments
26. Scoutzie (YC S12) Is A More Thoughtful Marketplace For Designers (techcrunch.com)
97 points by kirillzubovsky on Aug 10, 2012 | 26 comments
27. Google-An update to our search algorithms - Copyright Related (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
94 points by ZanderEarth32 on Aug 10, 2012 | 104 comments
28. Intro to writing C-extension for Python (danfm.ca)
89 points by synparb on Aug 10, 2012 | 7 comments
29. Beware the Nocebo Effect (nytimes.com)
86 points by sew on Aug 10, 2012 | 30 comments
30. Clojure is not Software Conservative (n01se.net)
81 points by liebke on Aug 10, 2012 | 43 comments

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