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1.
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account (macrumors.com)
314 points by antr on Aug 5, 2012 | 177 comments
2.
CopBlock.org Founder Faces 21 Years in Prison for Reporting Police Brutality (cnn.com)
253 points by wtvanhest on Aug 5, 2012 | 61 comments
3.
Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now? (thenextweb.com)
246 points by playhard on Aug 5, 2012 | 13 comments
4.
Principles of UI design (bokardo.com)
171 points by tomazstolfa on Aug 5, 2012 | 27 comments
5.
Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You (kaspersky.com)
160 points by jonemo on Aug 5, 2012 | 80 comments
6.
Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren't They Popular? (nytimes.com)
159 points by hollerith on Aug 5, 2012 | 142 comments
7.
What's all this fuss about Erlang? (pragprog.com)
155 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 5, 2012 | 99 comments
8.
First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around (techcrunch.com)
156 points by PStamatiou on Aug 5, 2012 | 62 comments
9.
How to Write a Malcolm Gladwell Book (theweinerworks.com)
149 points by bretthopper on Aug 5, 2012 | 61 comments
10.
The power of intermittent fasting (bbc.co.uk)
143 points by technology on Aug 5, 2012 | 69 comments
11.
Tunneling Below Second Avenue (for New Subway) (nytimes.com)
138 points by mhb on Aug 5, 2012 | 68 comments
12.
Elsevier charges authors to make items "Open Access", then charges to read them. (cam.ac.uk)
141 points by ColinWright on Aug 5, 2012 | 11 comments
13.
Raising Successful Children (nytimes.com)
129 points by aakil on Aug 5, 2012 | 13 comments
14.
Mars rover Curiosity lands today (space.com)
125 points by LVB on Aug 5, 2012 | 48 comments
15.
Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail (usabilityhell.com)
118 points by 4clicknet on Aug 5, 2012 | 41 comments
16.
Ask HN: How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?
102 points by vowelless on Aug 5, 2012 | 56 comments
17.
PCSX2 1.0 released (pcsx2.net)
101 points by dreampeppers99 on Aug 5, 2012 | 55 comments
18.
Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?) (techcrunch.com)
91 points by irunbackwards on Aug 5, 2012 | 53 comments
19.
The GoPro Army (inc.com)
84 points by riledhel on Aug 5, 2012 | 39 comments
20.
DARPA have created first solid state receiver with gain at 0.85THz (darpa.mil)
83 points by p4bl0 on Aug 5, 2012 | 33 comments
21.
IFTTT Needs Webhooks, Stat (jazzychad.net)
82 points by jazzychad on Aug 5, 2012 | 29 comments
22.
Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World (pocoo.org)
80 points by streptomycin on Aug 5, 2012 | 21 comments
23.
Memory Access Patterns Are Important (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk)
80 points by jcdavis on Aug 5, 2012 | 8 comments
24.
Explained: The Shannon Limit (2010) (web.mit.edu)
79 points by rkaplan on Aug 5, 2012 | 15 comments
25.
Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support (twitter.com/mat)
76 points by _frog on Aug 5, 2012 | 36 comments
26.
Machine Learning - Introduction (jeremykun.wordpress.com)
72 points by phenylene on Aug 5, 2012 | 7 comments
27.
Rails like framework for C++ with great speed (treefrogframework.org)
73 points by mariuz on Aug 5, 2012 | 47 comments
28.
Rural residents' DIY 1Gbps fibre project
69 points by zantzinger on Aug 5, 2012 | 36 comments
29.
Oracle: why 9 lines of rangeCheck code is copyright infringement (groklaw.net)
68 points by grellas on Aug 5, 2012 | 42 comments
30.
Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar (code.google.com)
62 points by electic on Aug 5, 2012 | 68 comments

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