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1.		Subtle Patterns (subtlepatterns.com)
		408 points by benologist on Sept 26, 2012 \| 49 comments
2.		A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD (theatlantic.com)
		288 points by iamwil on Sept 26, 2012 \| 20 comments
3.		Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming (winningraceconditions.blogspot.com)
		243 points by pcwalton on Sept 26, 2012 \| 181 comments
4.		MMO in loving tribute to xkcd-1110 (n01se.net)
		204 points by wooby on Sept 26, 2012 \| 61 comments
5.		Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer (formlabs.com)
		191 points by samwillis on Sept 26, 2012 \| 111 comments
6.		Mathematics at Google (research.google.com)
		188 points by PierreMage on Sept 26, 2012 \| 50 comments
7.		Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		183 points by mgdiaz on Sept 26, 2012 \| 44 comments
8.		OStatus: like Twitter, but open (chrismdp.com)
		185 points by chrismdp on Sept 26, 2012 \| 124 comments
9.		Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993) (webhistory.org)
		169 points by wamatt on Sept 26, 2012 \| 62 comments
10.		Light Table - Embracing Abstraction (chris-granger.com)
		163 points by bpierre on Sept 26, 2012 \| 74 comments
11.		German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters (crackajack.de)
		137 points by fgribreau on Sept 26, 2012 \| 47 comments
12.		Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx (highscalability.com)
		131 points by diego on Sept 26, 2012 \| 91 comments
13.		Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft (thenextweb.com)
		132 points by mtgx on Sept 26, 2012 \| 168 comments
14.		Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes? (nytimes.com)
		129 points by timr on Sept 26, 2012 \| 53 comments
15.		Twilio’s Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API (techcrunch.com)
		137 points by playhard on Sept 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
16.		French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push (computerworlduk.com)
		120 points by EdwardQ on Sept 26, 2012 \| 55 comments
17.		Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days (wired.com)
		107 points by mayop100 on Sept 26, 2012 \| 67 comments
18.		As We May Think (1945) (theatlantic.com)
		106 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 26, 2012 \| 34 comments
19.		Why Bloom filters work the way they do (michaelnielsen.org)
		95 points by michael_nielsen on Sept 26, 2012 \| 7 comments
20.		Wizard for Mac - a tool for statistics and data analysis (evanmiller.org)
		92 points by harper on Sept 26, 2012 \| 34 comments
21.		Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (2005) (uni-mannheim.de)
		86 points by yarapavan on Sept 26, 2012 \| 51 comments
22.		Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners (wired.com)
		90 points by vectorbunny on Sept 26, 2012 \| 44 comments
23.		The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day (bufferapp.com)
		87 points by mikesun on Sept 26, 2012 \| 41 comments
24.		Google Drive SDK (developers.google.com)
		86 points by valhallarecords on Sept 26, 2012 \| 37 comments
25.		Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1 (thenextweb.com)
		84 points by cooldeal on Sept 26, 2012 \| 51 comments
26.		Python is doing just fine (data.geek.nz)
		84 points by timClicks on Sept 26, 2012 \| 85 comments
27.		Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax) (github.com/rails)
		82 points by timf on Sept 26, 2012 \| 52 comments
28.		Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III (engadget.com)
		74 points by ashishgandhi on Sept 26, 2012 \| 40 comments
29.		Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth (venturebeat.com)
		71 points by Avalaxy on Sept 26, 2012 \| 57 comments
30.		Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says (wired.com)
		70 points by yk on Sept 26, 2012 \| 50 comments
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