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1.
A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr (npr.org)
236 points by llambda on Aug 11, 2012 | 59 comments
2.
Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack (reason.com)
224 points by wmeredith on Aug 11, 2012 | 63 comments
3.
Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors (greatist.com)
212 points by jc4p on Aug 11, 2012 | 197 comments
4.
Pricing Experiments (conversionxl.com)
202 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 11, 2012 | 29 comments
5.
Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness (gist.github.com)
173 points by jwecker on Aug 11, 2012 | 42 comments
6.
Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away (jacehallshow.com)
174 points by jschuur on Aug 11, 2012 | 18 comments
7.
Steve Yegge and Grok (bsumm.net)
163 points by bryansum on Aug 11, 2012 | 47 comments
8.
Vim as you IDE (haridas.in)
162 points by haridas on Aug 11, 2012 | 106 comments
9.
Mining of Massive Datasets (stanford.edu)
160 points by SlimHop on Aug 11, 2012 | 6 comments
10.
Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson (gnome.org)
156 points by jobi on Aug 11, 2012 | 82 comments
11.
Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold (gigaom.com)
154 points by wglb on Aug 11, 2012 | 32 comments
12.
Income inequality, as seen from space (persquaremile.com)
138 points by metdos on Aug 11, 2012 | 51 comments
13.
The End of Indie Game Development on Android (polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com)
126 points by tzm on Aug 11, 2012 | 67 comments
14.
A Physics Lesson: Why Cats Land on Their Feet (mentalfloss.com)
126 points by andrewhillman on Aug 11, 2012 | 28 comments
15.
Bash Initialisation Files (solipsys.co.uk)
118 points by ColinWright on Aug 11, 2012 | 17 comments
16.
Does one have to be a genius to do maths? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
113 points by caustic on Aug 11, 2012 | 56 comments
17.
How India's favorite TV show uses data to change the world (gigaom.com)
110 points by suprgeek on Aug 11, 2012 | 14 comments
18.
Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results (eff.org)
95 points by mjfern on Aug 11, 2012 | 49 comments
19.
Gertboard expands the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins (raspberrypi.org)
88 points by wiradikusuma on Aug 11, 2012 | 41 comments
20.
The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business (barracudalabs.com)
81 points by diego on Aug 11, 2012 | 33 comments
21.
Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop (sendrail.com)
76 points by ritikm on Aug 11, 2012 | 50 comments
22.
Software Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad? (theatlantic.com)
73 points by cwan on Aug 11, 2012 | 44 comments
23.
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Will Spend First Weekend Installing New Software (nasa.gov)
69 points by llambda on Aug 11, 2012 | 43 comments
24.
Drone delivery service (indiegogo.com)
68 points by Jagannath on Aug 11, 2012 | 42 comments
25.
Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year (shareable.net)
68 points by blancarro on Aug 11, 2012 | 51 comments
26.
Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions (schneier.com)
60 points by kibwen on Aug 11, 2012 | 19 comments
27.
How to name your startup (joel.is)
55 points by joshuacc on Aug 11, 2012 | 54 comments
28.
Codec Confusion in Python (pocoo.org)
56 points by easonchan42 on Aug 11, 2012 | 16 comments
29.
Ask HN: Good iOS Tutorials?
54 points by snihalani on Aug 11, 2012 | 27 comments
30.
Show HN: Redirect stdout to EtherPad (github.com/o2labs)
47 points by simonmaddox on Aug 11, 2012 | 11 comments

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