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1.		A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post (slidetocode.com)
		365 points by steeleduncan on Sept 7, 2012 \| 268 comments
2.		Dan Weinreb passed away (xconomy.com)
		258 points by pyb on Sept 7, 2012 \| 24 comments
3.		Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation (notdot.net)
		233 points by nicksdjohnson on Sept 7, 2012 \| 30 comments
4.		Rich Hickey: extensible data notation (github.com/richhickey)
		219 points by Peteris on Sept 7, 2012 \| 81 comments
5.		Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups. (plus.google.com)
		218 points by hyfen on Sept 7, 2012 \| 89 comments
6.		Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew (the-pastry-box-project.net)
		212 points by charliepark on Sept 7, 2012 \| 122 comments
7.		Chinese company uses leaked photos to copy, patent iPhone 5 design (bgr.com)
		195 points by velodrome on Sept 7, 2012 \| 177 comments
8.		Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk (allthingsd.com)
		151 points by olivercameron on Sept 7, 2012 \| 54 comments
9.		Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback (flyingmachinestudios.com)
		153 points by nonrecursive on Sept 7, 2012 \| 86 comments
10.		The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code (suneelius.com)
		147 points by suneel0101 on Sept 7, 2012 \| 86 comments
11.		Welcome to Linux From Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)
		148 points by donnut on Sept 7, 2012 \| 71 comments
12.		Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime. (acm.org)
		141 points by pwg on Sept 7, 2012 \| 42 comments
13.		فلسطين. top-level domain representing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (iana.org)
		138 points by matant on Sept 7, 2012 \| 69 comments
14.		Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle (fastcoexist.com)
		139 points by saalweachter on Sept 7, 2012 \| 135 comments
15.		GHC 7.6 is now live: poly kinds, dynamic use of cores, numeric type literals... (haskell.org)
		145 points by dons on Sept 7, 2012 \| 26 comments
16.		Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support (stripe.com)
		122 points by stevencorona on Sept 7, 2012 \| 38 comments
17.		FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project (newscientist.com)
		115 points by tchalla on Sept 7, 2012 \| 102 comments
18.		Bitcoin Mining in Plain English (codinginmysleep.com)
		110 points by enmaku on Sept 7, 2012 \| 35 comments
19.		Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com (skimfeed.com)
		108 points by brador on Sept 7, 2012 \| 78 comments
20.		Get Disciplined, Not Motivated (joelrunyon.com)
		107 points by joelrunyon on Sept 7, 2012 \| 25 comments
21.		Show HN: MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward (getfwd.com)
		107 points by ericingram on Sept 7, 2012 \| 70 comments
22.		APIs for Manufacturing (amandapeyton.com)
		102 points by inmygarage on Sept 7, 2012 \| 35 comments
23.		Don't hire only self-described awesome developers (hirelite.com)
		94 points by nathanh on Sept 7, 2012 \| 80 comments
24.		Why I wear the same shirt every day (waxman.me)
		86 points by waxman on Sept 7, 2012 \| 105 comments
25.		16 days since last ruby drama (rubydramas.com)
		83 points by neXter on Sept 7, 2012 \| 36 comments
26.		Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged phone call: GetOutCall.com (getoutcall.com)
		83 points by Roedou on Sept 7, 2012 \| 42 comments
27.		Kansas City subsidises Google Fiber (arstechnica.com)
		70 points by novaleaf on Sept 7, 2012 \| 33 comments
28.		CC-NC considered harmful (ibiblio.org)
		69 points by kumarshantanu on Sept 7, 2012 \| 47 comments
29.		Show HN: A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript (github.com/ddopson)
		68 points by RealCasually on Sept 7, 2012 \| 21 comments
30.		Twitter effectively killing JSONP too (dansingerman.com)
		66 points by dansingerman on Sept 7, 2012 \| 27 comments
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