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1. Racism at a gaming company (qu33riousity.tumblr.com)
368 points by plinkplonk on Oct 2, 2012 | 414 comments
2. Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution (pythontutor.com)
325 points by ColinWright on Oct 2, 2012 | 41 comments
3. Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone (lockitron.com)
329 points by tylerhowarth on Oct 2, 2012 | 211 comments
4. The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled (sfgate.com)
247 points by steve8918 on Oct 2, 2012 | 138 comments
5. Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy. (foldable.me)
240 points by hakkasan on Oct 2, 2012 | 107 comments
6. You are getting sleeeeeeepy ... (discovermagazine.com)
230 points by ColinWright on Oct 2, 2012 | 41 comments
7. Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It (mailchimp.com)
213 points by ryanfitz on Oct 2, 2012 | 109 comments
8. Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition (nist.gov)
196 points by B-Con on Oct 2, 2012 | 41 comments
9. Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections (arstechnica.com)
196 points by 001sky on Oct 2, 2012 | 31 comments
10. The Story of the New Microsoft.com (rainypixels.com)
191 points by robin_reala on Oct 2, 2012 | 81 comments
11. Software on Steam (steampowered.com)
191 points by mxfh on Oct 2, 2012 | 106 comments
12. Drupal's Golden Handcuffs (mikecr.it)
187 points by mcrittenden on Oct 2, 2012 | 136 comments
13. Show HN: I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites (linkdaq.net)
184 points by thehodge on Oct 2, 2012 | 85 comments
14. NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition (nist.gov)
168 points by dchest on Oct 2, 2012 | 40 comments
15. Understanding Postgres Performance (craigkerstiens.com)
165 points by neilmiddleton on Oct 2, 2012 | 33 comments
16. The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle (cnn.com)
165 points by ssclafani on Oct 2, 2012 | 78 comments
17. You won't believe how nice Notch's office is (kotaku.com)
159 points by loso on Oct 2, 2012 | 112 comments
18. Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people (tldr.io)
131 points by louischatriot on Oct 2, 2012 | 103 comments
19. Seriously? (bitquabit.com)
124 points by tghw on Oct 2, 2012 | 144 comments
20. How To Build A Blog Readership (danshipper.com)
121 points by dshipper on Oct 2, 2012 | 29 comments
21. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban lifted in the US (bbc.co.uk)
115 points by coldskull on Oct 2, 2012 | 27 comments
22. Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America (techcrunch.com)
114 points by andreiursan on Oct 2, 2012 | 89 comments
23. Kivy - Open source cross-platform library for rapid development (kivy.org)
107 points by pajju on Oct 2, 2012 | 23 comments
24. How We Doubled Our Android Install Rate in One Hour (dwellable.com)
105 points by gurgeous on Oct 2, 2012 | 23 comments
25. Why does TypeScript have be the answer to anything? (hanselman.com)
94 points by andrijac on Oct 2, 2012 | 80 comments
26. Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iTunes supported Android (thenextweb.com)
92 points by mariusc on Oct 2, 2012 | 62 comments
27. How Sacha Greif and Nathan Barry sold $39k worth of eBooks (sachagreif.com)
81 points by sgdesign on Oct 2, 2012 | 28 comments
28. BAQL: Reading Hacker News as a non-CS liberal arts graduate (bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com)
76 points by jordanlee on Oct 2, 2012 | 27 comments
29. Discovery Channel's Inside a Jet Crash (usatoday.com)
70 points by twakefield on Oct 2, 2012 | 22 comments
30. UI/UX and Subjectivity (gazit.me)
68 points by idan on Oct 2, 2012 | 30 comments

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