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1. A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious (osnews.com)
418 points by thomholwerda on Aug 26, 2012 | 426 comments
2. The coming civil war over general purpose computing (boingboing.net)
279 points by Create on Aug 26, 2012 | 98 comments
3. Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication (dropbox.com)
243 points by Xyzodiac on Aug 26, 2012 | 74 comments
4. Best Open Python Books (revolunet.com)
229 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 26, 2012 | 31 comments
5. Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework (vanilla-js.com)
208 points by elliotlai on Aug 26, 2012 | 125 comments
6. Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions (techcrunch.com)
195 points by nreece on Aug 26, 2012 | 69 comments
7. My Evil Undead Credit Card (uncrunched.com)
181 points by ryangilbert on Aug 26, 2012 | 129 comments
8. TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked. (boingboing.net)
151 points by rst on Aug 26, 2012 | 30 comments
9. An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism (nytimes.com)
140 points by tokenadult on Aug 26, 2012 | 102 comments
10. Growth Hacking 101: Your First 500,000 Users (slideshare.net)
131 points by taigeair on Aug 26, 2012 | 12 comments
11. Flat lens offers a perfect image (seas.harvard.edu)
128 points by co_pl_te on Aug 26, 2012 | 30 comments
12. Ask HN: How to learn Backbone
125 points by robbiet480 on Aug 26, 2012 | 33 comments
13. New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild. (fireeye.com)
122 points by grncdr on Aug 26, 2012 | 68 comments
14. Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer (henrikwarne.com)
116 points by henrik_w on Aug 26, 2012 | 76 comments
15. Where the fuck is my Ari Gold? (youell.com)
109 points by softbuilder on Aug 26, 2012 | 67 comments
16. The Racket Blog: Dynamic Programming versus Memoization (racket-lang.org)
103 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Aug 26, 2012 | 26 comments
17. When My Business Failed (hbr.org)
101 points by harpalux on Aug 26, 2012 | 36 comments
18. Buzz Aldrin’s Official Statement on the Passing of Neil Armstrong (buzzaldrin.com)
96 points by neurotech1 on Aug 26, 2012 | 5 comments
19. Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog (wired.com)
96 points by webwanderings on Aug 26, 2012 | 59 comments
20. Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything (gigaom.com)
86 points by sandipc on Aug 26, 2012 | 36 comments
21. Deadbook, the Long-term Facebook (jacquesmattheij.com)
82 points by ColinWright on Aug 26, 2012 | 54 comments
22. How Long Do You Want to Live? (nytimes.com)
77 points by rosser on Aug 26, 2012 | 99 comments
23. School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough (nytimes.com)
75 points by tokenadult on Aug 26, 2012 | 33 comments
24. Practicing Programming (sites.google.com)
70 points by krat0sprakhar on Aug 26, 2012 | 25 comments
25. Shell script Mac Apps (mathiasbynens.be)
69 points by snihalani on Aug 26, 2012 | 15 comments
26. Do Plants Think? (scientificamerican.com)
68 points by rosser on Aug 26, 2012 | 51 comments
27. Pricing Your Product: it Doesn’t Have to Be so Complicated (joel.is)
68 points by iSimone on Aug 26, 2012 | 25 comments
28. Charter the Seasteader I (seasteading.org)
64 points by pelle on Aug 26, 2012 | 37 comments
29. The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum (venturebeat.com)
64 points by timmyd on Aug 26, 2012 | 17 comments
30. Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties (nytimes.com)
63 points by jamesbritt on Aug 26, 2012 | 44 comments

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