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1.
Why time appears to speed up with age (everything2.com)
250 points by rlander on Aug 19, 2012 | 100 comments
2.
Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms (learncodethehardway.org)
244 points by rsobers on Aug 19, 2012 | 171 comments
3.
The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story (lukethomas.com)
244 points by lukethomas on Aug 19, 2012 | 125 comments
4.
Show HN: BigVideo.js (dfcb.github.com)
244 points by johnpolacek on Aug 19, 2012 | 48 comments
5.
Be More Productive. Take Time Off. (nytimes.com)
203 points by sathishmanohar on Aug 19, 2012 | 47 comments
6.
Your Words are Wasted (hanselman.com)
192 points by d4nt on Aug 19, 2012 | 53 comments
7.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs (techcrunch.com)
184 points by ssclafani on Aug 19, 2012 | 35 comments
8.
Why Waiting Is Torture (nytimes.com)
163 points by sew on Aug 19, 2012 | 46 comments
9.
Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free (cryptographyengineering.com)
160 points by stalled on Aug 19, 2012 | 79 comments
10.
How to write a Linux device driver (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
161 points by rohshall on Aug 19, 2012 | 21 comments
11.
Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube (youfm.org)
121 points by ashraful on Aug 19, 2012 | 81 comments
12.
Why host and write a blog? (tbray.org)
115 points by aangjie on Aug 19, 2012 | 17 comments
13.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars (nasa.gov)
114 points by MKais on Aug 19, 2012 | 16 comments
14.
Experimental Python 3 support in Django (djangoproject.com)
110 points by mYk on Aug 19, 2012 | 4 comments
15.
Camera Pi – DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer (davidhunt.ie)
106 points by yossilac on Aug 19, 2012 | 30 comments
16.
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt' (bbc.co.uk)
99 points by gitarr on Aug 19, 2012 | 115 comments
17.
Writing Lock-Free Code: A Corrected Queue (drdobbs.com)
95 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 19, 2012 | 20 comments
18.
NASA Proposal to Revive Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion Development (nextbigfuture.com)
93 points by Anon84 on Aug 19, 2012 | 39 comments
19.
Free 2 day Berkeley "big data" class this week (ampcamp.berkeley.edu)
95 points by pwendell on Aug 19, 2012 | 14 comments
20.
Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources (pineapple.io)
89 points by jack7890 on Aug 19, 2012 | 30 comments
21.
Karma is Real (simpleprogrammer.com)
83 points by jsonmez on Aug 19, 2012 | 41 comments
22.
‘Double’ (YC S12) Turns the iPad Into a Telepresence Robot (nytimes.com)
77 points by sew on Aug 19, 2012 | 31 comments
23.
STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash (philipithomas.com)
76 points by philip1209 on Aug 19, 2012 | 59 comments
24.
Stanford’s Self-Driving Car Tears It Up On Racetrack – Tops 120 MPH (singularityhub.com)
75 points by protomyth on Aug 19, 2012 | 39 comments
25.
Cell: Lisp in Javascript (cell-lang.org)
64 points by SoCool on Aug 19, 2012 | 19 comments
26.
Take Time to Develop Fast (tapin.tv)
60 points by ddt on Aug 19, 2012 | 24 comments
27.
A Django Admin Wishlist (ankursethi.in)
57 points by GeneralMaximus on Aug 19, 2012 | 18 comments
28.
Why I Hate Buying Tickets (nickpersico.com)
56 points by nickpersico on Aug 19, 2012 | 63 comments
29.
Web Application Development with Clojure (vijaykiran.com)
56 points by rohshall on Aug 19, 2012 | 23 comments
30.
New Zealand: Wish you were here? (startribune.com)
52 points by tokenadult on Aug 19, 2012 | 68 comments

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