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1.
In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo (allthingsd.com)
223 points by drgath on July 29, 2012 | 145 comments
2.
Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF (klinger.io)
160 points by tomazstolfa on July 29, 2012 | 31 comments
3.
Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/ (4chan.org)
143 points by leftovers on July 29, 2012 | 98 comments
4.
Corner Office: Dennis Crowley (nytimes.com)
132 points by topherjaynes on July 29, 2012 | 35 comments
5.
The illusion of progress lights a fire (mindhacks.com)
124 points by jayliew on July 29, 2012 | 41 comments
6.
How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States (bearsfightingbears.com)
123 points by bradgessler on July 29, 2012 | 56 comments
7.
Watch the Olympics from anywhere: this actually works (gist.github.com)
116 points by irq on July 29, 2012 | 63 comments
8.
Do you check HTTPS certificates in your API clients? (unfoldthat.com)
114 points by valyagolev on July 29, 2012 | 72 comments
9.
Dear Marissa: Think Different (500hats.com)
115 points by spsaaibi on July 29, 2012 | 67 comments
10.
Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments (techcrunch.com)
115 points by iProject on July 29, 2012 | 94 comments
11.
Brain scans reveal simple 3D grid structure (nih.gov)
105 points by signifiers on July 29, 2012 | 16 comments
12.
The Innumeracy of Intellectuals (2008) (scienceblogs.com)
101 points by Thrymr on July 29, 2012 | 98 comments
13.
Confessions of a 20-Something Startup CTO (bencoe.tumblr.com)
100 points by BenjaminCoe on July 29, 2012 | 90 comments
14.
A bold but simple login system (xoxco.com)
94 points by fufulabs on July 29, 2012 | 97 comments
15.
Curiosity landing is in a week (nasa.gov)
91 points by huhtenberg on July 29, 2012 | 37 comments
16.
Am I a cyborg now? (popcount.org)
86 points by majke on July 29, 2012 | 46 comments
17.
Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore. (johnmacfarlane.net)
82 points by fs111 on July 29, 2012 | 39 comments
18.
“Critical mass” vs “network effects” (daltoncaldwell.com)
82 points by olivercameron on July 29, 2012 | 37 comments
19.
Bring Google Fibre into Canada (avaaz.org)
83 points by calvintennant on July 29, 2012 | 33 comments
20.
Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript (minipenguin.com)
80 points by dag11 on July 29, 2012 | 23 comments
21.
When Craigslist Blocks Innovations (nytimes.com)
79 points by iamwil on July 29, 2012 | 89 comments
22.
Vimwiki (code.google.com)
76 points by simonreed on July 29, 2012 | 16 comments
23.
Google search's new basic calculator (google.com)
76 points by gnyman on July 29, 2012 | 67 comments
24.
Cracking Passwords on an Intel Celeron CPU (16s.us)
72 points by 16s on July 29, 2012 | 20 comments
25.
Does mathematics have a place in higher education? (mathbabe.org)
70 points by cottonseed on July 29, 2012 | 106 comments
26.
Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial (ergoemacs.org)
70 points by jackhammer2022 on July 29, 2012 | 14 comments
27.
Is Algebra Necessary? (nytimes.com)
67 points by ColinWright on July 29, 2012 | 68 comments
28.
Tips on Emacs Lisp programming (ferrier.me.uk)
59 points by nic-ferrier on July 29, 2012 | 28 comments
29.
Breakthroughs Come From Relaxation (bloomberg.com)
60 points by akandiah on July 29, 2012 | 10 comments
30.
The value of short term thinking (influencehacks.com)
58 points by coderush on July 29, 2012 | 33 comments

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