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1.		Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (nasa.gov)
		646 points by ColinWright on July 3, 2012 \| 127 comments
2.		Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant (vanityfair.com)
		347 points by 127001brewer on July 3, 2012 \| 355 comments
3.		Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself (thenextweb.com)
		330 points by andymboyle on July 3, 2012 \| 209 comments
4.		Apple ignores bug report (phoboslab.org)
		318 points by phoboslab on July 3, 2012 \| 188 comments
5.		"Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea (bbc.co.uk)
		254 points by ColinWright on July 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
6.		Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search (productforums.google.com)
		240 points by javajosh on July 3, 2012 \| 109 comments
7.		Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown (torrentfreak.com)
		217 points by rkudeshi on July 3, 2012 \| 88 comments
8.		Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help
		184 points by BjornW on July 3, 2012 \| 23 comments
9.		Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible (cnet.com)
		175 points by wyclif on July 3, 2012 \| 111 comments
10.		Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System (titanous.com)
		170 points by Titanous on July 3, 2012 \| 34 comments
11.		European Court: Used software licenses may be resold. (translate.google.com)
		160 points by kleiba on July 3, 2012 \| 70 comments
12.		MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine? (ingoschramm.tumblr.com)
		151 points by ingoschramm on July 3, 2012 \| 45 comments
13.		Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English (tldrlegal.com)
		147 points by sajithw on July 3, 2012 \| 55 comments
14.		Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero (nytimes.com)
		140 points by erickhill on July 3, 2012 \| 61 comments
15.		PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies (technologyreview.com)
		132 points by Anon84 on July 3, 2012 \| 32 comments
16.		40+ voice searches thrown at Google on Jelly Bean (plus.google.com)
		132 points by bane on July 3, 2012 \| 44 comments
17.		Google Service Drops Support for Opera (planetbotch.blogspot.no)
		130 points by telemachos on July 3, 2012 \| 99 comments
18.		Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini... (techcrunch.com)
		125 points by mjfern on July 3, 2012 \| 81 comments
19.		Twitter Loses 'Occupy Wall Street' Case, Forced To Hand Over User Info (talkingpointsmemo.com)
		121 points by blatherard on July 3, 2012 \| 66 comments
20.		CERN scientists to announce proof of Higgs boson found (phys.org)
		119 points by merraksh on July 3, 2012 \| 27 comments
21.		Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East (amazon.com)
		118 points by rdl on July 3, 2012 \| 78 comments
22.		Golang at CloudFlare (cloudflare.com)
		112 points by jgrahamc on July 3, 2012 \| 68 comments
23.		Parsing regular expressions with recursive descent (might.net)
		84 points by joeyespo on July 3, 2012 \| 16 comments
24.		Visual Studio 2012 will build apps that can run on XP (msdn.com)
		82 points by ryanmolden on July 3, 2012 \| 20 comments
25.		Hetzner mail to customers: 1 megawatt more power due to leap second
		82 points by Uchikoma on July 3, 2012 \| 26 comments
26.		Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science (mashable.com)
		80 points by benigeri on July 3, 2012 \| 65 comments
27.		Build a Robot Overlord Using Node.js, Twilio, and Arduino (twilio.com)
		75 points by jonmarkgo on July 3, 2012 \| 24 comments
28.		Google joins Samsung in patent dispute with Apple (bgr.com)
		70 points by arpit on July 3, 2012 \| 56 comments
29.		Steve Jobs The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don’t tell anyone, okay? (cringely.com)
		68 points by Toshio on July 3, 2012 \| 33 comments
30.		Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux (kotaku.com)
		65 points by evo_9 on July 3, 2012 \| 57 comments
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