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1.
Pokemon Yellow hack recodes the game from within (tasvideos.org)
315 points by Luc on Dec 8, 2012 | 53 comments
2.
Nomic (wikipedia.org)
242 points by eugeniodepalo on Dec 8, 2012 | 84 comments
3.
Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?
238 points by Xcelerate on Dec 8, 2012 | 171 comments
4.
Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) (paulgraham.com)
213 points by mmphosis on Dec 8, 2012 | 101 comments
5.
How I coached a basketball team in Afghanistan and what went wrong (nplusonemag.com)
212 points by drpp on Dec 8, 2012 | 59 comments
6.
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua (cloudflare.com)
201 points by jgrahamc on Dec 8, 2012 | 57 comments
7.
 Can websites personally identify visitors? (plus.google.com)
173 points by goatcurious on Dec 8, 2012 | 107 comments
8.
Don't Be Lazy, Use HTML Labels Correctly (goodsense.io)
173 points by sherm8n on Dec 8, 2012 | 55 comments
9.
A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux (phoronix.com)
160 points by buster on Dec 8, 2012 | 58 comments
10.
Exploring Emacs (hackerschool.com)
125 points by happy4crazy on Dec 8, 2012 | 40 comments
11.
The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (1999) (mine-control.com)
125 points by simonsarris on Dec 8, 2012 | 43 comments
12.
Scapy: a powerful interactive packet manipulation program (secdev.org)
108 points by ColinWright on Dec 8, 2012 | 13 comments
13.
Banjo Tooie for N64 finally cracked (eurasia.nu)
109 points by ramiwi on Dec 8, 2012 | 25 comments
14.
CheckIO is a videogame you play by writing Python. (checkio.org)
87 points by brownbat on Dec 8, 2012 | 22 comments
15.
Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant (lesswrong.com)
83 points by pizu on Dec 8, 2012 | 125 comments
16.
Survey of MIT Students on their Stress (tech.mit.edu)
84 points by FrojoS on Dec 8, 2012 | 64 comments
17.
USB NeXT Keyboard with an Arduino Micro (adafruit.com)
81 points by jwcooper on Dec 8, 2012 | 14 comments
18.
Show HN: a distraction-free Markdown editor (asleepysamurai.com)
74 points by chaosprophet on Dec 8, 2012 | 46 comments
19.
How to Destroy an Arduino (ruggedcircuits.com)
72 points by harrydoukas on Dec 8, 2012 | 30 comments
20.
Android's Google Now services headed for Chrome, too (cnet.com)
67 points by Pr0 on Dec 8, 2012 | 24 comments
21.
Please do not use Feedburner service (garron.me)
63 points by urlwolf on Dec 8, 2012 | 28 comments
22.
Scientists warn of sperm count crisis (richarddawkins.net)
61 points by cs702 on Dec 8, 2012 | 81 comments
23.
Parrot Learns to Drive Robotic Buggy His Owner Designed and Built (sites.google.com)
59 points by yareally on Dec 8, 2012 | 21 comments
24.
Show HN: Miyagi - A Journal of Application Development (miyagi.herokuapp.com)
59 points by ryandaigle on Dec 8, 2012 | 28 comments
25.
Federal Agency wants black boxes in every new car by September 2014 (arstechnica.com)
58 points by evo_9 on Dec 8, 2012 | 53 comments
26.
The Scourge of Error Handling (drdobbs.com)
53 points by mmastrac on Dec 8, 2012 | 17 comments
27.
Majority in Bern council tells Swiss city to switch to open source (europa.eu)
51 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 8, 2012 | 7 comments
28.
India has a drought – not of Investors, but Customers (vijayanand.name)
50 points by playhard on Dec 8, 2012 | 26 comments
29.
Where's Ryan Dahl?
48 points by bilalhusain on Dec 8, 2012 | 17 comments
30.
Why We Get Fat (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
43 points by simonreed on Dec 8, 2012 | 70 comments

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