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1.		What it’s like to work for Stripe (alexmaccaw.com)
		285 points by relation on Aug 28, 2012 \| 57 comments
2.		Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds (authy.com)
		240 points by danielpal on Aug 28, 2012 \| 106 comments
3.		How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat (arstechnica.com)
		240 points by laxk on Aug 28, 2012 \| 141 comments
4.		Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing (notdot.net)
		234 points by moobirubi on Aug 28, 2012 \| 25 comments
5.		Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database (youtube.com)
		229 points by noidi on Aug 28, 2012 \| 90 comments
6.		Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News (slate.com)
		220 points by bookwormAT on Aug 28, 2012 \| 222 comments
7.		The Worst Argument In The World (lesswrong.com)
		212 points by jmillikin on Aug 28, 2012 \| 143 comments
8.		A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong (aei-ideas.org)
		203 points by queensnake on Aug 28, 2012 \| 42 comments
9.		PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon (amazon.com)
		197 points by neya on Aug 28, 2012 \| 85 comments
10.		Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it (venturevillage.eu)
		195 points by adamfletcher on Aug 28, 2012 \| 50 comments
11.		Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak (extremetech.com)
		188 points by mrsebastian on Aug 28, 2012 \| 183 comments
12.		HBO No Go (avc.com)
		181 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2012 \| 96 comments
13.		The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups (nickoneill.com)
		159 points by mikeknoop on Aug 28, 2012 \| 47 comments
14.		Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture
		151 points by bitcartel on Aug 28, 2012 \| 75 comments
15.		Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace (mailgun.net)
		153 points by twakefield on Aug 28, 2012 \| 62 comments
16.		Usenet – what have you become? (90percentofeverything.com)
		129 points by harrybr on Aug 28, 2012 \| 116 comments
17.		Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git (github.com/artagnon)
		115 points by artagnon on Aug 28, 2012 \| 46 comments
18.		Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming (arstechnica.com)
		118 points by shawndumas on Aug 28, 2012 \| 52 comments
19.		“Growth Hacking” is BS (layeredthoughts.com)
		105 points by Jake232 on Aug 28, 2012 \| 53 comments
20.		Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
		104 points by paraschopra on Aug 28, 2012 \| 42 comments
21.		Poor man's IFTTT in 3 lines of code (lagentz.com)
		101 points by fdorfbauer on Aug 28, 2012 \| 33 comments
22.		Yes, India is a police state - Christopher Soghoian (indiatimes.com)
		93 points by kshatrea on Aug 28, 2012 \| 93 comments
23.		1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites (theregister.co.uk)
		89 points by j_col on Aug 28, 2012 \| 35 comments
24.		Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician (techdirt.com)
		87 points by mtgx on Aug 28, 2012 \| 38 comments
25.		Break Apart Your Backbone.js Render Methods (ianstormtaylor.com)
		87 points by ianstormtaylor on Aug 28, 2012 \| 17 comments
26.		Norway Has Advice For Libya (npr.org)
		84 points by patrickk on Aug 28, 2012 \| 20 comments
27.		This is not an image. It's an HTML table. (discountgeni.us)
		83 points by discountgenius on Aug 28, 2012 \| 63 comments
28.		PostgreSQL 9.2 RC1 released (postgresql.org)
		80 points by pythonist on Aug 28, 2012 \| 20 comments
29.		IBM creating pocket-sized Watson in $16 billion sales push (kurzweilai.net)
		78 points by robdoherty2 on Aug 28, 2012 \| 35 comments
30.		AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details (techreport.com)
		77 points by geoffgasior on Aug 28, 2012 \| 29 comments
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