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1.		37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (fastcompany.com)
		468 points by endtwist on Aug 29, 2012 \| 228 comments
2.		GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X (petapixel.com)
		376 points by maciej on Aug 29, 2012 \| 178 comments
3.		What killed the Linux desktop (tirania.org)
		344 points by foolano on Aug 29, 2012 \| 378 comments
4.		Walking out of an interview (workplace.stackexchange.com)
		265 points by DanielShir on Aug 29, 2012 \| 248 comments
5.		Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food (bloomberg.com)
		234 points by codelion on Aug 29, 2012 \| 185 comments
6.		HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0 (html5boilerplate.com)
		212 points by necolas on Aug 29, 2012 \| 51 comments
7.		Controversial programming opinions (blogoverflow.com)
		200 points by Sammyadems on Aug 29, 2012 \| 171 comments
8.		IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory. (ibm.com)
		192 points by TallGuyShort on Aug 29, 2012 \| 82 comments
9.		Deploying at GitHub (github.com/blog)
		182 points by samps on Aug 29, 2012 \| 59 comments
10.		Keep a programming journal (gist.github.com)
		171 points by feyyaz on Aug 29, 2012 \| 101 comments
11.		The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux (zdnet.com)
		169 points by CrankyBear on Aug 29, 2012 \| 91 comments
12.		Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982 (att.com)
		157 points by fogus on Aug 29, 2012 \| 76 comments
13.		American law is patent nonsense (ft.com)
		130 points by callum85 on Aug 29, 2012 \| 51 comments
14.		Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js (trek.github.com)
		127 points by tomdale on Aug 29, 2012 \| 68 comments
15.		MongoDB 2.2.0 Released (mongodb.org)
		129 points by francesca on Aug 29, 2012 \| 60 comments
16.		Bill Buxton: Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known (1982) (billbuxton.com)
		115 points by johnx123-up on Aug 29, 2012 \| 23 comments
17.		Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort (pvk.ca)
		109 points by dduck on Aug 29, 2012 \| 5 comments
18.		New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve (blog.wordpress.com)
		109 points by superchink on Aug 29, 2012 \| 29 comments
19.		What 10gen nailed with MongoDB (calv.info)
		109 points by calvinfo on Aug 29, 2012 \| 84 comments
20.		How Reddit Got Obama (allthingsd.com)
		103 points by rkudeshi on Aug 29, 2012 \| 100 comments
21.		The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled The Valley (techcrunch.com)
		99 points by kine on Aug 29, 2012 \| 49 comments
22.		Linux Commands for Developers (jayfields.com)
		98 points by vamsee on Aug 29, 2012 \| 64 comments
23.		How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions (homakov.blogspot.com)
		96 points by homakov on Aug 29, 2012 \| 32 comments
24.		Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates (paidcontent.org)
		94 points by iProject on Aug 29, 2012 \| 57 comments
25.		The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages (github.com/seanpowell)
		88 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2012 \| 23 comments
26.		Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders (coding.fm)
		81 points by valceder on Aug 29, 2012 \| 68 comments
27.		Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding (techdirt.com)
		77 points by mtgx on Aug 29, 2012 \| 41 comments
28.		Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page (limitedrun.com)
		74 points by duck on Aug 29, 2012 \| 39 comments
29.		Bringing Google+ to work (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
		75 points by eneveu on Aug 29, 2012 \| 80 comments
30.		Teaching Kids to Love Math (wsj.com)
		72 points by joeyespo on Aug 29, 2012 \| 46 comments
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