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1.		Khan Academy: Computer Science (khanacademy.org)
		336 points by johns on Aug 14, 2012 \| 54 comments
2.		United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care (bobsutton.typepad.com)
		242 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 14, 2012 \| 188 comments
3.		Thoughts on being a programmer (yelsew.com)
		235 points by earnubs on Aug 14, 2012 \| 190 comments
4.		Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh (code.google.com)
		223 points by ColinWright on Aug 14, 2012 \| 145 comments
5.		What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All' (theatlantic.com)
		222 points by twakefield on Aug 14, 2012 \| 85 comments
6.		Rich Hickey: The Value of Values (infoq.com)
		186 points by dmuino on Aug 14, 2012 \| 42 comments
7.		Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 (360cities.net)
		185 points by Plnt on Aug 14, 2012 \| 81 comments
8.		Uber Boston Has Been Served (uber.com)
		158 points by sudonim on Aug 14, 2012 \| 133 comments
9.		The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload (securelist.com)
		157 points by jgrahamc on Aug 14, 2012 \| 44 comments
10.		Samwers Clone Stripe (paymill.de)
		151 points by themichael on Aug 14, 2012 \| 163 comments
11.		The money part of App.net is a red herring (alexhillman.com)
		149 points by alexknowshtml on Aug 14, 2012 \| 98 comments
12.		Pixel Perfect (daringfireball.net)
		143 points by olivercameron on Aug 14, 2012 \| 135 comments
13.		Saylor Foundation: Computer Science (saylor.org)
		139 points by ekm2 on Aug 14, 2012 \| 44 comments
14.		GNU Emacs ported to Android (play.google.com)
		131 points by cycojesus on Aug 14, 2012 \| 44 comments
15.		1and1 ask for passwords over the phone (tim-rogers.co.uk)
		129 points by timrogers on Aug 14, 2012 \| 86 comments
16.		DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA) (venturebeat.com)
		128 points by Undertow10 on Aug 14, 2012 \| 49 comments
17.		ARM Goes 64-bit (realworldtech.com)
		123 points by enos_feedler on Aug 14, 2012 \| 60 comments
18.		The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium (medium.com/p)
		123 points by bitsweet on Aug 14, 2012 \| 63 comments
19.		Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd (archlinux.org)
		120 points by g-garron on Aug 14, 2012 \| 125 comments
20.		Science Exchange Reproducibility Initiative (reproducibilityinitiative.org)
		113 points by abbottry on Aug 14, 2012 \| 35 comments
21.		Authors destroy legal e-book lending site thanks to Authors Guild, publisher FUD (extremetech.com)
		103 points by evo_9 on Aug 14, 2012 \| 87 comments
22.		CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by jgrahamc on Aug 14, 2012 \| 41 comments
23.		Improving HTTPS Performance with Early SSL Termination (filepicker.io)
		97 points by tagx on Aug 14, 2012 \| 59 comments
24.		JRE & JDK now available to OS X developers (oracle.com)
		91 points by Braasch on Aug 14, 2012 \| 32 comments
25.		Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days, outstrips competition (venturebeat.com)
		88 points by yabbadabbadoo on Aug 14, 2012 \| 45 comments
26.		Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
		86 points by johndcook on Aug 14, 2012 \| 50 comments
27.		Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse (techcrunch.com)
		83 points by anandkulkarni on Aug 14, 2012 \| 45 comments
28.		Mozilla removes -moz-opacity; man threatens to sue for $18,000 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
		81 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 14, 2012 \| 60 comments
29.		Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch (deadman.io)
		76 points by m3ntat on Aug 14, 2012 \| 51 comments
30.		The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type (alexpoole.info)
		75 points by idan on Aug 14, 2012 \| 16 comments
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