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1.
Hacking ls -l (lemis.com)
199 points by drp4929 on Oct 13, 2012 | 88 comments
2.
Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery (npr.org)
166 points by iProject on Oct 13, 2012 | 78 comments
3.
0x10c (Notch's new game) (0x10c.com)
160 points by vasco on Oct 13, 2012 | 87 comments
4.
More people should write (jsomers.net)
150 points by jsomers on Oct 13, 2012 | 49 comments
5.
Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why? (fetzervalves.com)
150 points by jaybna on Oct 13, 2012 | 57 comments
6.
Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one (bbc.co.uk)
142 points by drucken on Oct 13, 2012 | 17 comments
7.
Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python (plus.google.com)
137 points by gits1225 on Oct 13, 2012 | 65 comments
8.
Suicide is Cheaper (geo-geek.blogspot.com.au)
124 points by Abundnce10 on Oct 13, 2012 | 75 comments
9.
Google Homepage Size Over Time (measuredmass.wordpress.com)
126 points by ISL on Oct 13, 2012 | 53 comments
10.
Solving the Multicore Dilemma (flowlang.net)
102 points by tel on Oct 13, 2012 | 49 comments
11.
How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World (vice.com)
101 points by robg on Oct 13, 2012 | 14 comments
12.
Asshole Driven Development (scottberkun.com)
102 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 | 25 comments
13.
The Three Pillars of Nokia's Strategy Have All Failed (communities-dominate.blogs.com)
101 points by wazoox on Oct 13, 2012 | 84 comments
14.
Helping you select a JS MV* framework (todomvc.com)
97 points by wiradikusuma on Oct 13, 2012 | 38 comments
15.
Git over FTP (github.com/resmo)
94 points by vinaykola on Oct 13, 2012 | 39 comments
16.
Symbian, a post-mortem (docs.google.com)
89 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 | 23 comments
17.
The Marshmallow Test Revisited (washingtonpost.com)
82 points by shazad on Oct 13, 2012 | 33 comments
18.
PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs (bloomberg.com)
85 points by pg on Oct 13, 2012 | 51 comments
19.
AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company (semiaccurate.com)
78 points by tankenmate on Oct 13, 2012 | 41 comments
20.
When Academic Disagreement Becomes Harassment and Persecution (stanford.edu)
79 points by adrianhoward on Oct 13, 2012 | 35 comments
21.
Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript (jpfau.github.com)
76 points by jpfau on Oct 13, 2012 | 25 comments
22.
Reasons not to buy from Amazon (stallman.org)
73 points by tchalla on Oct 13, 2012 | 77 comments
23.
Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product (jayliew.com)
66 points by jayliew on Oct 13, 2012 | 9 comments
24.
Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk? (stackoverflow.com)
60 points by ivoflipse on Oct 13, 2012 | 20 comments
25.
What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (falkvinge.net)
60 points by zoowar on Oct 13, 2012 | 34 comments
26.
In over my head. How can I work with more advanced programmers? (arstechnica.com)
59 points by chinmoy on Oct 13, 2012 | 23 comments
27.
Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving (springerlink.com)
59 points by bane on Oct 13, 2012 | 8 comments
28.
What the Heck Is CSS Specificity? (designshack.net)
55 points by codingthebeach on Oct 13, 2012 | 20 comments
29.
Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday (eff.org)
55 points by pwg on Oct 13, 2012 | 27 comments
30.
Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery (t3hprogrammer.github.com)
55 points by t3hprogrammer on Oct 13, 2012 | 20 comments

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