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1.
Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. (launiusr.wordpress.com)
360 points by mike_esspe on Aug 12, 2012 | 159 comments
2.
Leaving Github (bytbox.net)
229 points by srl on Aug 12, 2012 | 143 comments
3.
Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU (github.com/pcpratts)
223 points by doublextremevil on Aug 12, 2012 | 79 comments
4.
Essential C (stanford.edu)
222 points by krat0sprakhar on Aug 12, 2012 | 53 comments
5.
Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software (jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)
196 points by deno on Aug 12, 2012 | 78 comments
6.
Dalton Caldwell: We Did It (daltoncaldwell.com)
178 points by J-H on Aug 12, 2012 | 54 comments
7.
The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned (stevenpressfield.com)
157 points by sage_joch on Aug 12, 2012 | 50 comments
8.
What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about (yosefk.com)
148 points by m_for_monkey on Aug 12, 2012 | 46 comments
9.
Sorting and searching at the library (jorendorff.github.com)
150 points by nkurz on Aug 12, 2012 | 25 comments
10.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read (tos-dr.info)
138 points by ryanio on Aug 12, 2012 | 14 comments
11.
Chill out, listen to some rain (raining.fm)
131 points by andrewfelix on Aug 12, 2012 | 79 comments
12.
What is life like for PhDs in computer science who go into industry? (vivekhaldar.com)
122 points by gandalfgeek on Aug 12, 2012 | 67 comments
13.
Cling: Running C++ in an interpreter (coldflake.com)
113 points by coldgrnd on Aug 12, 2012 | 48 comments
14.
The making of the Sony PlayStation (pushsquare.com)
89 points by CrazedGeek on Aug 12, 2012 | 6 comments
15.
What has NASA done to make your life awesome? (wtfnasa.com)
89 points by instakill on Aug 12, 2012 | 48 comments
16.
Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif (forgif.me)
84 points by sgehlich on Aug 12, 2012 | 39 comments
17.
What Ouya Isn't (hazzens.com)
74 points by hazzen on Aug 12, 2012 | 46 comments
18.
First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images (nasa.gov)
75 points by hybrid11 on Aug 12, 2012 | 46 comments
19.
Wristwatch in only HTML/CSS (codepen.io)
74 points by Flam on Aug 12, 2012 | 35 comments
20.
uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions (torrentfreak.com)
72 points by tomse on Aug 12, 2012 | 63 comments
21.
Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution (nature.com)
68 points by ananyob on Aug 12, 2012 | 18 comments
22.
A comparison of C++11 language support in VS2012, g++ 4.7 and Clang 3.1 (cpprocks.com)
67 points by AndreyKarpov on Aug 12, 2012 | 9 comments
23.
Working at big software companies (sacaluta.com)
67 points by rdcastro on Aug 12, 2012 | 21 comments
24.
Monner - Monitor CPU, memory and network whilst running a program (github.com/colinhowe)
56 points by colinhowe on Aug 12, 2012 | 21 comments
25.
HiMom (YC S12) Helps Your Parents Keep Up With Your Life (techcrunch.com)
54 points by martin_tipgain on Aug 12, 2012 | 24 comments
26.
Facebook Is The Ant; Zynga Is The Grasshopper (techcrunch.com)
51 points by kunle on Aug 12, 2012 | 22 comments
27.
How Big Data Became So Big (nytimes.com)
52 points by sew on Aug 12, 2012 | 5 comments
28.
Show HN: Painless, productive views on iOS with Formotion for RubyMotion (clayallsopp.github.com)
49 points by 10char on Aug 12, 2012 | 13 comments
29.
Does it make you win? (kippt.com)
51 points by enra on Aug 12, 2012 | 10 comments
30.
Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale (torrentfreak.com)
49 points by uladzislau on Aug 12, 2012 | 23 comments

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