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1.		Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
		871 points by sw007 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 431 comments
2.		I Have 50 Dollars (ihave50dollars.com)
		647 points by thehodge on Aug 17, 2012 \| 196 comments
3.		Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead (daringfireball.net)
		471 points by joshus on Aug 17, 2012 \| 173 comments
4.		Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram (extremetech.com)
		346 points by evo_9 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 129 comments
5.		Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only (amazon.com)
		347 points by whalesalad on Aug 17, 2012 \| 137 comments
6.		How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle (waynehale.wordpress.com)
		313 points by kibwen on Aug 17, 2012 \| 61 comments
7.		A Tor of the Dark Web (slifty.com)
		310 points by slifty on Aug 17, 2012 \| 204 comments
8.		A Proposal To Improve Hacker News (sridattalabs.com)
		304 points by sthatipamala on Aug 17, 2012 \| 174 comments
9.		Light Table reaches 0.1.0 (chris-granger.com)
		297 points by Mariel on Aug 17, 2012 \| 95 comments
10.		Google Sues Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S. (techcrunch.com)
		233 points by kunle on Aug 17, 2012 \| 207 comments
11.		Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling (airbnb.github.com)
		198 points by reissbaker on Aug 17, 2012 \| 95 comments
12.		Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes (marco.org)
		131 points by benatkin on Aug 17, 2012 \| 56 comments
13.		Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in Perl (sourceforge.net)
		134 points by colinprince on Aug 17, 2012 \| 89 comments
14.		The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory (technologyreview.com)
		133 points by Anon84 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 28 comments
15.		Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses (python.org)
		125 points by whit537 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 23 comments
16.		Firefox 3D view (developer.mozilla.org)
		130 points by arunabh on Aug 17, 2012 \| 40 comments
17.		The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range (stoweboyd.com)
		126 points by masnick on Aug 17, 2012 \| 77 comments
18.		Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars (arstechnica.com)
		125 points by ValentineC on Aug 17, 2012 \| 53 comments
19.		OnLive assets acquired by newly formed company (techcrunch.com)
		119 points by il on Aug 17, 2012 \| 75 comments
20.		Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell (github.com/git)
		120 points by Sevein on Aug 17, 2012 \| 67 comments
21.		Restaurant offers a 5% discount if you eat without your phone on the table (cnn.com)
		108 points by codegeek on Aug 17, 2012 \| 97 comments
22.		Can't Code? Learn Design. (learncodethehardway.org)
		101 points by prajjwal on Aug 17, 2012 \| 41 comments
23.		At times not losing is as important as winning (steveblank.com)
		98 points by pier0 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 20 comments
24.		Dear sw007 (raganwald.posterous.com)
		98 points by raganwald on Aug 17, 2012 \| 13 comments
25.		Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now (mariadb.org)
		93 points by bytebot on Aug 17, 2012 \| 42 comments
26.		Google’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small (wired.com)
		90 points by arunabh on Aug 17, 2012 \| 48 comments
27.		Elon Musk: Next Six Months Crucial to Tesla's future (technologyreview.com)
		89 points by ca98am79 on Aug 17, 2012 \| 80 comments
28.		Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear (arstechnica.com)
		83 points by shawndumas on Aug 17, 2012 \| 36 comments
29.		Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog (discovery.com)
		84 points by joeyespo on Aug 17, 2012 \| 24 comments
30.		What Twitter's Announcement could have said (dashes.com)
		79 points by briandear on Aug 17, 2012 \| 18 comments
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