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1. Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms (joystiq.com)
247 points by rpledge on Oct 7, 2012 | 171 comments
2. Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript. (github.com/felixge)
219 points by tuxychandru on Oct 7, 2012 | 172 comments
3. SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast (livestream.com)
184 points by Reltair on Oct 7, 2012 | 95 comments
4. Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (launchphotography.com)
168 points by flyinglizard on Oct 7, 2012 | 26 comments
5. Adobe's Source Code Pro Font (opensourcehacker.com)
166 points by pykello on Oct 7, 2012 | 115 comments
6. The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue (smithsonianmag.com)
144 points by georgecmu on Oct 7, 2012 | 14 comments
7. Retina Revolution - smaller images with better quality (netvlies.nl)
134 points by aggarwalachal on Oct 7, 2012 | 75 comments
8. Measure results, not hours (nytimes.com)
124 points by nerfhammer on Oct 7, 2012 | 82 comments
9. Chibi-Scheme (code.google.com)
93 points by jasox on Oct 7, 2012 | 25 comments
10. Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local (github.com/visionmedia)
88 points by almost on Oct 7, 2012 | 59 comments
11. An Introduction to Computer Networks (stanford.edu)
83 points by tdrnd on Oct 7, 2012 | 17 comments
12. Calling Someone's Baby Ugly (simpleprogrammer.com)
78 points by jsonmez on Oct 7, 2012 | 56 comments
13. The Enterprise: I’m Not Sexy And I Know It (techcrunch.com)
76 points by kumarshantanu on Oct 7, 2012 | 20 comments
14. CouchDB retrospective (groups.google.com)
75 points by bhaisaab on Oct 7, 2012 | 19 comments
15. Installing Clozure Common Lisp on the Raspberry Pi (dyndns.org)
74 points by jk4930 on Oct 7, 2012 | 20 comments
16. ThinkPad Design: Spirit and Essence (zmags.com)
71 points by Adrock on Oct 7, 2012 | 76 comments
17. Nate Silver has made a career out of predicting things (slate.com)
64 points by barredo on Oct 7, 2012 | 89 comments
18. 1x Forth by Charles Moore (1999) (ultratechnology.com)
63 points by falava on Oct 7, 2012 | 16 comments
19. If you can’t explain what you do in one paragraph, you’ve got a problem (venturebeat.com)
57 points by lusob on Oct 7, 2012 | 36 comments
20. Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft (cnet.com)
57 points by mtgx on Oct 7, 2012 | 55 comments
21. Vimium: Vim Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome (lifehacker.com)
55 points by Cieplak on Oct 7, 2012 | 39 comments
22. Ways Startups Can Deal With Patent Troll Demands (techcrunch.com)
52 points by iProject on Oct 7, 2012 | 9 comments
23. A 1982 Commodore 64 web server, 64k RAM, 1 MHz CPU, running Contiki (c64web.com)
51 points by tdrnd on Oct 7, 2012 | 28 comments
24. Giving options in European startups (kaljundi.com)
47 points by jkaljundi on Oct 7, 2012 | 24 comments
25. Scalable CSS-based Playing Cards (donpark.github.com)
44 points by donpark on Oct 7, 2012 | 16 comments
26. HN2JSON: A ruby gem for HackerNews (rubygems.org)
43 points by jcla1 on Oct 7, 2012 | 13 comments
27. Dissolve the SEC (mathbabe.org)
42 points by cs702 on Oct 7, 2012 | 35 comments
28. How (And Why) I'm Circumventing Twitter's API Instead of Using It (pandawhale.com)
42 points by livestyle on Oct 7, 2012 | 9 comments
29. 2.7 million total image views after Reddit content experiment. (fireoneout.com)
41 points by zackbigdog on Oct 7, 2012 | 19 comments
30. Interface Sketch: free templates for web, mobile and tablet (interfacesketch.tumblr.com)
39 points by walnut-tree on Oct 7, 2012

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