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1.		Sal Khan responds to critic (washingtonpost.com)
		292 points by danso on July 27, 2012 \| 154 comments
2.		1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 (writersofthefuture.com)
		250 points by joshuahedlund on July 27, 2012 \| 141 comments
3.		How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP (nikic.github.com)
		210 points by maratd on July 27, 2012 \| 36 comments
4.		A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community (reddit.com)
		194 points by ryanio on July 27, 2012 \| 62 comments
5.		Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed (arstechnica.com)
		176 points by Cadsby on July 27, 2012 \| 109 comments
6.		Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem (scripting.com)
		175 points by aaron-lebo on July 27, 2012 \| 80 comments
7.		A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams (npr.org)
		177 points by septerr on July 27, 2012 \| 144 comments
8.		Economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband (gigaom.com)
		163 points by iProject on July 27, 2012 \| 64 comments
9.		How well does Khan Academy teach? (washingtonpost.com)
		163 points by ColinWright on July 27, 2012 \| 111 comments
10.		Go is boring (aeronotix.pl)
		137 points by iand on July 27, 2012 \| 130 comments
11.		Why isn't iTunes shuffle random? (apple.stackexchange.com)
		135 points by benihana on July 27, 2012 \| 74 comments
12.		Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants (abcnews.go.com)
		136 points by ot on July 27, 2012 \| 29 comments
13.		Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL (sprw.me)
		124 points by kiyoto on July 27, 2012 \| 65 comments
14.		NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid (techcrunch.com)
		120 points by rythie on July 27, 2012 \| 86 comments
15.		BinaryJS, Streaming realtime binary data to your web browser (binaryjs.com)
		115 points by ericz on July 27, 2012 \| 26 comments
16.		Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage (mashable.com)
		111 points by frankphilips on July 27, 2012 \| 142 comments
17.		Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by dtran on July 27, 2012 \| 47 comments
18.		Virtual Incubator to All (pandodaily.com)
		100 points by rrbrambley on July 27, 2012 \| 40 comments
19.		Fogus leaves Relevance and Clojure/core (fogus.me)
		94 points by DanielRibeiro on July 27, 2012 \| 10 comments
20.		IOS Image Tricks (dwellable.com)
		90 points by gurgeous on July 27, 2012 \| 22 comments
21.		Beyond Meat: Fake Meat So Good It Will Freak You Out (slate.com)
		88 points by krschultz on July 27, 2012 \| 178 comments
22.		Show HN: multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays (ggreplayz.com)
		86 points by rynop on July 27, 2012 \| 58 comments
23.		Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
		86 points by evo_9 on July 27, 2012 \| 36 comments
24.		PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines (pandodaily.com)
		86 points by garry on July 27, 2012 \| 38 comments
25.		Why Google makes the perfect ISP (extremetech.com)
		82 points by doc4t on July 27, 2012 \| 57 comments
26.		Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare (gigaom.com)
		81 points by alt_ on July 27, 2012 \| 53 comments
27.		The Humble Music Bundle (humblebundle.com)
		74 points by mrud on July 27, 2012 \| 39 comments
28.		GDrive finally comes to Linux thanks to insynchq.com (insynchq.com)
		72 points by justinkelly on July 27, 2012 \| 20 comments
29.		Transparent plug-in hybrid retrofit for any car (mtsunews.com)
		68 points by rocky1138 on July 27, 2012 \| 54 comments
30.		Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 2 (Backbone.Collection) (dailyjs.com)
		66 points by raja on July 27, 2012 \| 8 comments
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