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1.		Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek (nccgroup.com)
		439 points by ontoillogical on Aug 2, 2012 \| 111 comments
2.		Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family (adobe.com)
		386 points by robinhouston on Aug 2, 2012 \| 67 comments
3.		The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything (noexcuselist.com)
		378 points by joelrunyon on Aug 2, 2012 \| 91 comments
4.		Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars (latimes.com)
		266 points by api on Aug 2, 2012 \| 100 comments
5.		Fasting & Programming (mahdiyusuf.com)
		177 points by mccarthyjm on Aug 2, 2012 \| 174 comments
6.		The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. (zdnet.com)
		172 points by Empro on Aug 2, 2012 \| 77 comments
7.		The Differences Between Germany and the United States (uni-paderborn.de)
		167 points by kumarski on Aug 2, 2012 \| 158 comments
8.		Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing (hanselman.com)
		141 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 \| 25 comments
9.		Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps] (stanford.edu)
		141 points by dhruvbird on Aug 2, 2012 \| 47 comments
10.		Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X (workstuff.tumblr.com)
		135 points by fields on Aug 2, 2012 \| 119 comments
11.		400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year (bgr.com)
		134 points by kemper on Aug 2, 2012 \| 79 comments
12.		Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (extremetech.com)
		127 points by mrsebastian on Aug 2, 2012 \| 69 comments
13.		Today is Goof Off at Work Day (codinghorror.com)
		126 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 \| 50 comments
14.		Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users (bbc.com)
		121 points by iProject on Aug 2, 2012 \| 93 comments
15.		Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font (tibetangeeks.com)
		116 points by luckystrike on Aug 2, 2012 \| 20 comments
16.		DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters (adainitiative.org)
		108 points by simcop2387 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 98 comments
17.		1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD (bitcoincharts.com)
		106 points by mrb on Aug 2, 2012 \| 125 comments
18.		We are Colorblind (wearecolorblind.com)
		104 points by bpierre on Aug 2, 2012 \| 49 comments
19.		How low (power) can you go? (antipope.org)
		98 points by cstross on Aug 2, 2012 \| 30 comments
20.		Why you should never use GoDaddy ever again (even for a domain search) (zensavona.com)
		94 points by zensavona on Aug 2, 2012 \| 53 comments
21.		Facebook loses 3 more executives (venturebeat.com)
		93 points by chrisacky on Aug 2, 2012 \| 42 comments
22.		Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by danielpal on Aug 2, 2012 \| 34 comments
23.		Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer (scientificamerican.com)
		91 points by tokenadult on Aug 2, 2012 \| 66 comments
24.		Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time (dzone.com)
		90 points by jpro on Aug 2, 2012 \| 118 comments
25.		Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers (docs.google.com)
		88 points by jamesbritt on Aug 2, 2012 \| 67 comments
26.		Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions (heroku.com)
		87 points by selenamarie on Aug 2, 2012 \| 28 comments
27.		LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang (osdir.com)
		86 points by zachwill on Aug 2, 2012 \| 21 comments
28.		Faster Zombies (valvesoftware.com)
		85 points by phenylene on Aug 2, 2012 \| 16 comments
29.		Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds (hackerdojo.com)
		83 points by bluehat on Aug 2, 2012 \| 29 comments
30.		Show HN: Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images (makr.io)
		78 points by mbs348 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 32 comments
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