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1.
Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook (stephenwolfram.com)
306 points by ecmendenhall on Aug 30, 2012 | 103 comments
2.
Lobsters (lobste.rs)
297 points by relation on Aug 30, 2012 | 209 comments
3.
New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster (hacks.mozilla.org)
291 points by ptgloden on Aug 30, 2012 | 67 comments
4.
PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps (squareup.com)
278 points by wlue on Aug 30, 2012 | 44 comments
5.
Robot cars on public roads? California says yes (arstechnica.com)
267 points by vectorbunny on Aug 30, 2012 | 152 comments
6.
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes (wired.com)
273 points by mtgx on Aug 30, 2012 | 221 comments
7.
No Email (harjtaggar.com)
213 points by kloncks on Aug 30, 2012 | 123 comments
8.
TechCrunch is a bully (lanewood.me)
202 points by asanwal on Aug 30, 2012 | 110 comments
9.
 HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe (arstechnica.com)
197 points by nightbrawler on Aug 30, 2012 | 99 comments
10.
Amit’s Thoughts on Grids (stanford.edu)
194 points by kayral on Aug 30, 2012 | 12 comments
11.
Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April (theregister.co.uk)
179 points by amboar on Aug 30, 2012 | 88 comments
12.
Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane (arstechnica.com)
170 points by mbell on Aug 30, 2012 | 48 comments
13.
Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program. (orangethirty.blogspot.com)
153 points by orangethirty on Aug 30, 2012 | 86 comments
14.
Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars (nickoneill.com)
148 points by benackles on Aug 30, 2012 | 85 comments
15.
Stripe CTF Writeup (ioactive.com)
126 points by santaragolabs on Aug 30, 2012 | 89 comments
16.
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II) (250bpm.com)
128 points by rumcajz on Aug 30, 2012 | 156 comments
17.
The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface (cooper.com)
121 points by davezatch on Aug 30, 2012 | 34 comments
18.
Heroku Isn't for Idiots (rdegges.com)
114 points by niallsmart on Aug 30, 2012 | 58 comments
19.
Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria (nationalgeographic.com)
107 points by uptown on Aug 30, 2012 | 42 comments
20.
BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text (blablameter.com)
108 points by grabeh on Aug 30, 2012 | 92 comments
21.
Hopefully more controversial programming opinions (dadgum.com)
103 points by elssar on Aug 30, 2012 | 98 comments
22.
Patents considered evil (ipocracy.org)
95 points by jcbrand on Aug 30, 2012 | 28 comments
23.
What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time (theatlantic.com)
93 points by mdariani on Aug 30, 2012 | 36 comments
24.
Qt 5 Beta has been released (nokia.com)
88 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 30, 2012 | 12 comments
25.
$21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It (clickminded.com)
83 points by trg2 on Aug 30, 2012 | 48 comments
26.
Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec (newartisans.com)
77 points by bhoflack on Aug 30, 2012 | 8 comments
27.
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day (fastcompany.com)
72 points by codelion on Aug 30, 2012 | 27 comments
28.
There’s a Lift for that (lift.do)
66 points by rkudeshi on Aug 30, 2012 | 46 comments
29.
What Americans Actually Do All Day Long (npr.org)
67 points by hooande on Aug 30, 2012 | 48 comments
30.
Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists (cyclinganalytics.com)
66 points by davidjohnstone on Aug 30, 2012 | 78 comments

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