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1.
Wikipedia Redefined (wikipediaredefined.com)
550 points by troethom on Aug 7, 2012 | 288 comments
2.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (wired.com)
446 points by malachismith on Aug 7, 2012 | 253 comments
3.
The weakest link by far is Apple (marco.org)
421 points by rsobers on Aug 7, 2012 | 166 comments
4.
HN statistics (labs.im)
313 points by nhoss2 on Aug 7, 2012 | 63 comments
5.
4chan: Beyond one billion (4chan.org)
305 points by dmarinoc on Aug 7, 2012 | 124 comments
6.
Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident (techcrunch.com)
288 points by tbenst on Aug 7, 2012 | 263 comments
7.
Veteran NYTimes Photographer Arrested & Allegedly Beaten by NYPD (chasejarvis.com)
255 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 7, 2012 | 90 comments
8.
Please turn on two-factor authentication (mattcutts.com)
224 points by cleverjake on Aug 7, 2012 | 258 comments
9.
This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars (youtu.be)
221 points by bmahmood on Aug 7, 2012 | 45 comments
10.
What I've Learned About Learning (raganwald.posterous.com)
149 points by slig on Aug 7, 2012 | 30 comments
11.
Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv (github.com/jtwaleson)
128 points by hendrikp on Aug 7, 2012 | 51 comments
12.
What hackers don’t know about business (filepicker.io)
122 points by tagx on Aug 7, 2012 | 50 comments
13.
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack (wired.com)
120 points by sciwiz on Aug 7, 2012 | 38 comments
14.
The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm (free.pages.at)
118 points by arlog on Aug 7, 2012 | 46 comments
15.
Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud (judegomila.com)
111 points by judegomila on Aug 7, 2012 | 66 comments
16.
Racket v5.3 (racket-lang.org)
115 points by shawndumas on Aug 7, 2012 | 50 comments
17.
Riak 1.2 Officially Released (basho.com)
124 points by pharkmillups on Aug 7, 2012 | 40 comments
18.
Curiosity was built with 2.5 million lines of C (programmers.stackexchange.com)
102 points by dustingetz on Aug 7, 2012 | 33 comments
19.
The German Model (handelsblatt.com)
99 points by hussong on Aug 7, 2012 | 102 comments
20.
Picplum launches Photo Printing API (picplum.com)
92 points by lyime on Aug 7, 2012 | 25 comments
21.
Parser combinator library in C (github.com/wbhart)
91 points by wbhart on Aug 7, 2012 | 28 comments
22.
SML: Scalable Machine Learning Class (with video lectures) (smola.org)
89 points by adilkhash on Aug 7, 2012 | 10 comments
23.
Judge Alsup orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid advocates (arstechnica.com)
89 points by ben1040 on Aug 7, 2012 | 25 comments
24.
Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser (techcrunch.com)
82 points by mcolyer on Aug 7, 2012 | 26 comments
25.
Filepicker.io now supports Instagram, Flickr and Video Recording (filepicker.io)
82 points by brettcvz on Aug 7, 2012 | 26 comments
26.
The Best Recruiters – followup to The Recruiter Honeypot (ewherry.com)
82 points by jianshen on Aug 7, 2012 | 13 comments
27.
IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung (allthingsd.com)
81 points by Tloewald on Aug 7, 2012 | 87 comments
28.
Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk (technologyreview.com)
71 points by cpeterso on Aug 7, 2012 | 86 comments
29.
The Psychology of Employee Retention (romymisra.com)
71 points by romymisra on Aug 7, 2012 | 30 comments
30.
Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers (onstartups.com)
66 points by vrikhter on Aug 7, 2012 | 81 comments

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