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1.
Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage (waybackletter.com)
345 points by duck on Oct 5, 2012 | 96 comments
2.
Zip Bomb (wikipedia.org)
342 points by takinola on Oct 5, 2012 | 108 comments
3.
This picture is worth a thousand pictures (slate.com)
240 points by abhimir on Oct 5, 2012 | 38 comments
4.
Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours (yale.edu)
216 points by 001sky on Oct 5, 2012 | 128 comments
5.
The best interface is no interface (cooper.com)
214 points by ropiku on Oct 5, 2012 | 87 comments
6.
Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56 (thecodist.com)
214 points by jerhewet on Oct 5, 2012 | 56 comments
7.
How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness (feross.org)
208 points by feross on Oct 5, 2012 | 112 comments
8.
Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js (ikaisays.com)
205 points by ikailan on Oct 5, 2012 | 32 comments
9.
Living in a Van (priceonomics.com)
210 points by rohin on Oct 5, 2012 | 165 comments
10.
Things you didn't know about Python (speakerdeck.com)
181 points by d0ugal on Oct 5, 2012 | 41 comments
11.
How SQLite is tested (sqlite.org)
176 points by antonios on Oct 5, 2012 | 40 comments
12.
When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1? (schneier.com)
168 points by mikegerwitz on Oct 5, 2012 | 51 comments
13.
How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)
160 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 5, 2012 | 24 comments
14.
Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined (iceboxpro.com)
157 points by patrickod on Oct 5, 2012 | 128 comments
15.
Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap (designshack.net)
137 points by andreiursan on Oct 5, 2012 | 50 comments
16.
Facebook the Devourer (awardwinningfjords.com)
138 points by hellosmithy on Oct 5, 2012 | 98 comments
17.
How do they make money? (seerinteractive.com)
137 points by giorgiofontana on Oct 5, 2012 | 72 comments
18.
New comet might blaze brighter than the full Moon (astronomynow.com)
134 points by tartarugafeliz on Oct 5, 2012 | 50 comments
19.
Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad (reghardware.com)
122 points by bornhuetter on Oct 5, 2012 | 68 comments
20.
Twitter, PayPal reveal database performance (itnews.com.au)
119 points by werner on Oct 5, 2012 | 48 comments
21.
What is static program analysis? (might.net)
110 points by p4bl0 on Oct 5, 2012 | 33 comments
22.
The $5000 Compression Challenge (patrickcraig.co.uk)
104 points by jpablo on Oct 5, 2012 | 119 comments
23.
Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny (wolfram.com)
102 points by soofy on Oct 5, 2012 | 7 comments
24.
Cloud Haskell: work-stealing, master-slave and work-pushing (well-typed.com)
84 points by dons on Oct 5, 2012 | 6 comments
25.
How airbnb lost me as a customer
78 points by ARobotics on Oct 5, 2012 | 67 comments
26.
All ideas are old ideas (chris-granger.com)
76 points by llambda on Oct 5, 2012 | 30 comments
27.
Dennis Ritchie passes away at 70 (2011) (techcrunch.com)
75 points by disgruntledphd2 on Oct 5, 2012 | 12 comments
28.
Conflagration: Zynga’s OMGPOP acquisition torched nearly $500,000 a day (thenextweb.com)
71 points by tylerlh on Oct 5, 2012 | 65 comments
29.
Pulse jet tea kettle (hackaday.com)
68 points by hansc on Oct 5, 2012 | 26 comments
30.
Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight (checkintomyflight.com)
66 points by nikilster on Oct 5, 2012 | 70 comments

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