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1.		Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles
		572 points by there on June 12, 2012 \| 46 comments
2.		I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. (hooktheory.com)
		497 points by davec on June 12, 2012 \| 183 comments
3.		Civ II game a decade old (reddit.com)
		471 points by jchrisa on June 12, 2012 \| 133 comments
4.		Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations (rigoneri.com)
		322 points by rigoneri on June 12, 2012 \| 75 comments
5.		Why Smart People Are Stupid (newyorker.com)
		302 points by mshafrir on June 12, 2012 \| 213 comments
6.		Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux (consumerist.com)
		271 points by sequoia on June 12, 2012 \| 159 comments
7.		Flame is Lame (f-secure.com)
		267 points by wglb on June 12, 2012 \| 100 comments
8.		Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots (nytimes.com)
		200 points by akharris on June 12, 2012 \| 66 comments
9.		My first month freelancing (alanhollis.com)
		191 points by Alan01252 on June 12, 2012 \| 119 comments
10.		The mintBox, a Linux Mint computer (linuxmint.com)
		185 points by LeafStorm on June 12, 2012 \| 80 comments
11.		HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources (ietf.org)
		174 points by tete on June 12, 2012 \| 57 comments
12.		I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked... (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
		172 points by willvarfar on June 12, 2012 \| 72 comments
13.		New York to London in an hour - by train (smartplanet.com)
		161 points by tnhu on June 12, 2012 \| 142 comments
14.		MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis (anandtech.com)
		152 points by spathak on June 12, 2012 \| 93 comments
15.		Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2 (whiletruecode.com)
		145 points by joshearl on June 12, 2012 \| 97 comments
16.		An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com)
		128 points by preshing on June 12, 2012 \| 20 comments
17.		LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts as distribution (lwn.net)
		117 points by aqrashik on June 12, 2012 \| 43 comments
18.		Indie Game: The Movie released on Steam (steampowered.com)
		115 points by joshuacc on June 12, 2012 \| 44 comments
19.		Apple Maps (maps.apple.com)
		111 points by seanponeil on June 12, 2012 \| 54 comments
20.		Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry (mashable.com)
		108 points by Jagat on June 12, 2012 \| 68 comments
21.		Solve 50 problems in 50 days (50problems50days.com)
		107 points by bhaveshdhupar on June 12, 2012 \| 35 comments
22.		Announcing Hipmunk's $15M Series B Funding (hipmunk.com)
		104 points by jacqattack on June 12, 2012 \| 67 comments
23.		Zynga shares plummet as Facebook game craze wanes (reuters.com)
		101 points by acak on June 12, 2012 \| 58 comments
24.		Boot2Gecko demo & quick hack (paulrouget.com)
		95 points by there on June 12, 2012 \| 22 comments
25.		Getting started with with Ember.js (andymatthews.net)
		86 points by chmike on June 12, 2012 \| 19 comments
26.		Andy Hertzfeld on the Demise of the Mac Pro (plus.google.com)
		82 points by wyclif on June 12, 2012 \| 79 comments
27.		Heroku: a follow up on last week's outage (heroku.com)
		81 points by twampss on June 12, 2012 \| 44 comments
28.		"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6" (zdnet.com)
		77 points by jgroome on June 12, 2012 \| 148 comments
29.		2013 H1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted (slashdot.org)
		74 points by moubarak on June 12, 2012 \| 118 comments
30.		Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$
		74 points by ssn on June 12, 2012 \| 95 comments
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