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1.		Delegate or die: the self-employed trap (sivers.org)
		262 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 18, 2012 \| 61 comments
2.		Garry Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police (rian.ru)
		238 points by neya on Aug 18, 2012 \| 154 comments
3.		How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC (techcrunch.com)
		209 points by olivercameron on Aug 18, 2012 \| 125 comments
4.		RIP Open Source MySQL (slashdot.org)
		169 points by mariuz on Aug 18, 2012 \| 99 comments
5.		Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work (bhorowitz.com)
		152 points by louhong on Aug 18, 2012 \| 156 comments
6.		Github just hit 2 million users. (github.com)
		143 points by _qucc on Aug 18, 2012 \| 36 comments
7.		NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch (wired.com)
		123 points by akent on Aug 18, 2012 \| 37 comments
8.		Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (lessthandot.com)
		118 points by ycombwin on Aug 18, 2012 \| 32 comments
9.		Custom Sublime Text Build Systems For Popular Tools And Languages (addyosmani.com)
		99 points by jemeshsu on Aug 18, 2012 \| 7 comments
10.		The Cost of a Logo (huhmagazine.co.uk)
		101 points by damian2000 on Aug 18, 2012 \| 34 comments
11.		Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center (gigaom.com)
		94 points by philip1209 on Aug 18, 2012 \| 22 comments
12.		The Panic Over Fukushima (wsj.com)
		92 points by aakil on Aug 18, 2012 \| 106 comments
13.		Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video) (archive.org)
		91 points by keiferski on Aug 18, 2012 \| 29 comments
14.		To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country (theatlantic.com)
		86 points by NeilRShah on Aug 18, 2012 \| 105 comments
15.		Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move (kottke.org)
		85 points by luckylemon on Aug 18, 2012 \| 28 comments
16.		India To Biometrically Identify All Of Its 1.2 Billion Citizens (singularityhub.com)
		84 points by millerski150 on Aug 18, 2012 \| 66 comments
17.		Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last (droid-life.com)
		81 points by irunbackwards on Aug 18, 2012 \| 14 comments
18.		Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system (liquidtext.net)
		82 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 18, 2012 \| 29 comments
19.		How a Tick Bite Made Me Allergic to Meat (discovermagazine.com)
		79 points by robg on Aug 18, 2012 \| 42 comments
20.		Madcap Recap (startupchumps.com)
		71 points by playhard on Aug 18, 2012 \| 14 comments
21.		JavaScript for Cats - An introduction for new programmers (jsforcats.com)
		73 points by dwynings on Aug 18, 2012 \| 24 comments
22.		Thoughts on Acqui-hires & Soft Landings (daslee.me)
		68 points by olivercameron on Aug 18, 2012 \| 12 comments
23.		Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users (voicegem.com)
		68 points by abless on Aug 18, 2012 \| 20 comments
24.		GNU GDB 7.5 brings Go support, reverse debugging on ARM (sourceware.org)
		66 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 18, 2012 \| 6 comments
25.		Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		66 points by MatthewPhillips on Aug 18, 2012 \| 1 comment
26.		Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro (phoronix.com)
		64 points by disgruntledphd2 on Aug 18, 2012 \| 81 comments
27.		The category design pattern (haskellforall.com)
		64 points by profquail on Aug 18, 2012 \| 22 comments
28.		Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source) (pasteboard.co)
		64 points by JoelBesada on Aug 18, 2012 \| 42 comments
29.		Maintaining CSS Style States using "Infinite" Transition Delays (joelb.me)
		62 points by iambot on Aug 18, 2012 \| 17 comments
30.		The Measured Man (theatlantic.com)
		61 points by harscoat on Aug 18, 2012 \| 7 comments
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