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1.		Dear Programmer, I have an idea (mkrecny.com)
		325 points by mkrecny on Sept 11, 2012 \| 134 comments
2.		Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard (techcrunch.com)
		313 points by skdoo on Sept 11, 2012 \| 167 comments
3.		The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle (kickstarter.com)
		279 points by zachallia on Sept 11, 2012 \| 164 comments
4.		The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral. (thexx.info)
		274 points by eliaskg on Sept 11, 2012 \| 80 comments
5.		Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5 (techcrunch.com)
		225 points by twapi on Sept 11, 2012 \| 142 comments
6.		Java's Cover (April 2001) (paulgraham.com)
		185 points by cdi on Sept 11, 2012 \| 180 comments
7.		Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth (wired.com)
		173 points by nicholassmith on Sept 11, 2012 \| 40 comments
8.		9to5 (instapaper.com)
		167 points by NaOH on Sept 11, 2012 \| 62 comments
9.		It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard (hacks.mozilla.org)
		167 points by nullc on Sept 11, 2012 \| 65 comments
10.		"Life Expectancy" Doesn't Measure How Long You're Expected To Live (edwardmarks.com)
		155 points by elmarks on Sept 11, 2012 \| 88 comments
11.		"Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year (arstechnica.com)
		150 points by mtgx on Sept 11, 2012 \| 96 comments
12.		Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go (dustin.github.com)
		142 points by mgrouchy on Sept 11, 2012 \| 34 comments
13.		2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads (macperformanceguide.com)
		137 points by ingve on Sept 11, 2012 \| 95 comments
14.		Parse Launches Cloud Code to Run Custom Code for Your App (parse.com)
		144 points by tikhon on Sept 11, 2012 \| 40 comments
15.		9/11 tragedy pager intercepts (wikileaks.org)
		135 points by tchalla on Sept 11, 2012 \| 144 comments
16.		App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco (appacademy.io)
		131 points by ruggeri on Sept 11, 2012 \| 69 comments
17.		Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A (thenextweb.com)
		126 points by martokus on Sept 11, 2012 \| 114 comments
18.		Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features (stripe.com)
		112 points by noinput on Sept 11, 2012 \| 53 comments
19.		Canada designs new visa for immigrant entrepreneurs (theglobeandmail.com)
		110 points by imack on Sept 11, 2012 \| 42 comments
20.		It's a London underground map and a working circuit board. (designboom.com)
		107 points by jacobsimeon on Sept 11, 2012 \| 8 comments
21.		Why developers are allergic to job opportunities (coderwall.com)
		106 points by bitsweet on Sept 11, 2012 \| 99 comments
22.		GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables (godaddy.com)
		100 points by jakeludington on Sept 11, 2012 \| 90 comments
23.		Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator (vanityfair.com)
		100 points by bjonathan on Sept 11, 2012 \| 12 comments
24.		We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say (vice.com)
		95 points by ca98am79 on Sept 11, 2012 \| 58 comments
25.		Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software. (sleepio.com)
		94 points by phames on Sept 11, 2012 \| 69 comments
26.		Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license (garagegames.com)
		90 points by Zolomon on Sept 11, 2012 \| 34 comments
27.		Migrating from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic (basho.com)
		90 points by tsantero on Sept 11, 2012 \| 5 comments
28.		Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth (bbc.com)
		83 points by selvan on Sept 11, 2012 \| 23 comments
29.		Helveticards - 100% CSS playing cards (zachwaugh.com)
		76 points by duck on Sept 11, 2012 \| 42 comments
30.		MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in QS world university rankings (topuniversities.com)
		70 points by jordn on Sept 11, 2012 \| 51 comments
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