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1.		Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles (plus.google.com)
		470 points by keyist on Aug 3, 2012 \| 153 comments
2.		Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for.. (valvesoftware.com)
		331 points by liquid_x on Aug 3, 2012 \| 159 comments
3.		Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously (gigaom.com)
		290 points by ColinWright on Aug 3, 2012 \| 178 comments
4.		Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site (ucouldfinish.com)
		243 points by robertwalsh0 on Aug 3, 2012 \| 112 comments
5.		Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire (wired.co.uk)
		242 points by crm114 on Aug 3, 2012 \| 118 comments
6.		Pie charts in your favicon (lipka.github.com)
		232 points by johntdyer on Aug 3, 2012 \| 33 comments
7.		One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse (nytimes.com)
		236 points by adrianmsmith on Aug 3, 2012 \| 135 comments
8.		Why Men Can't Have It All (relevantmagazine.com)
		227 points by mtoddh on Aug 3, 2012 \| 227 comments
9.		One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture (moz.com)
		181 points by trevin on Aug 3, 2012 \| 92 comments
10.		Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge (loopinsight.com)
		168 points by i386 on Aug 3, 2012 \| 117 comments
11.		Warsow 1.0 Released (warsow.net)
		164 points by mwilcox on Aug 3, 2012 \| 43 comments
12.		B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It (danshipper.com)
		153 points by dshipper on Aug 3, 2012 \| 83 comments
13.		MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access (mysql.com)
		149 points by alpb on Aug 3, 2012 \| 43 comments
14.		Letter to John Carmack (phoboslab.org)
		149 points by austinhallock on Aug 3, 2012 \| 133 comments
15.		Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels? (bbc.com)
		149 points by luu on Aug 3, 2012 \| 83 comments
16.		Ask PG: Is RFS3 "Things built on Twitter" still sensible to prioritise?
		147 points by sjtgraham on Aug 3, 2012 \| 55 comments
17.		Ten million users is the new one million users (cdixon.org)
		123 points by yonasb on Aug 3, 2012 \| 35 comments
18.		Everything in your life is just a list (slate.com)
		112 points by jessep on Aug 3, 2012 \| 78 comments
19.		Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims (techcrunch.com)
		106 points by jconley on Aug 3, 2012 \| 133 comments
20.		Hacker School announces fall applications and residencies (hackerschool.com)
		90 points by nicholasjbs on Aug 3, 2012 \| 30 comments
21.		HP releases more Open webOS code, including System Manager and core apps (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by llambda on Aug 3, 2012 \| 19 comments
22.		Pixel art and the art of preserving pixel size (mrgan.tumblr.com)
		85 points by thisisblurry on Aug 3, 2012 \| 37 comments
23.		Thinking Functionally with Haskell (pragprog.com)
		84 points by Toshio on Aug 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
24.		Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games (theage.com.au)
		84 points by srazzaque on Aug 3, 2012 \| 86 comments
25.		Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease (emberjs.com)
		80 points by patr1ck on Aug 3, 2012 \| 36 comments
26.		How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry (theatlantic.com)
		79 points by altrus on Aug 3, 2012 \| 45 comments
27.		What college rankings really tell us (newyorker.com)
		76 points by boh on Aug 3, 2012 \| 70 comments
28.		RIM agrees to hand over its encryption keys to India (indiatimes.com)
		70 points by andrewpi on Aug 3, 2012 \| 20 comments
29.		Python 101: An Intro to logging (pythonlibrary.org)
		68 points by driscollis on Aug 3, 2012 \| 16 comments
30.		“Fetch as Googlebot” tool helps to debug hacked sites (mattcutts.com)
		65 points by Garbage on Aug 3, 2012 \| 24 comments
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