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1.		Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got. (informit.com)
		427 points by chanux on Aug 16, 2012 \| 137 comments
2.		Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy (joshlehman.com)
		339 points by joshlehman on Aug 16, 2012 \| 201 comments
3.		Font that creates charts (fontfont.com)
		321 points by gbvb on Aug 16, 2012 \| 61 comments
4.		Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts (plus.google.com)
		283 points by kenmck on Aug 16, 2012 \| 269 comments
5.		Square introduces monthly pricing (squareup.com)
		258 points by MIT_Hacker on Aug 16, 2012 \| 141 comments
6.		Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates (thenextweb.com)
		250 points by rkudeshi on Aug 16, 2012 \| 111 comments
7.		Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12)
		208 points by pg on Aug 16, 2012 \| 72 comments
8.		Happy birthday Debian (debian.org)
		206 points by neya on Aug 16, 2012 \| 32 comments
9.		How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups (garrytan.com)
		166 points by garry on Aug 16, 2012 \| 39 comments
10.		'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week' (stripe.com)
		154 points by collision on Aug 16, 2012 \| 17 comments
11.		Why you can't be anything you want to be (sean-johnson.com)
		141 points by seanjohnson on Aug 16, 2012 \| 135 comments
12.		Amazing CSS3 3D popup book (beercamp.com)
		133 points by mikebridgman on Aug 16, 2012 \| 48 comments
13.		N64js: an N64 emulator in JavaScript (hulkholden.github.com)
		133 points by micheljansen on Aug 16, 2012 \| 20 comments
14.		Planetary Annihilation - A Next Generation RTS by Uber Entertainment Inc (kickstarter.com)
		127 points by Charles__L on Aug 16, 2012 \| 44 comments
15.		Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models (cubehero.com)
		127 points by iamwil on Aug 16, 2012 \| 39 comments
16.		Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful (mattrogish.com)
		122 points by MattRogish on Aug 16, 2012 \| 78 comments
17.		BufferBox (YC S12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages (techcrunch.com)
		122 points by dko on Aug 16, 2012 \| 80 comments
18.		The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers (denniskubes.com)
		110 points by denniskubes on Aug 16, 2012 \| 71 comments
19.		Twitter needs to get their shit together (bruun.co)
		112 points by konichiwasan on Aug 16, 2012 \| 12 comments
20.		Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io (allthingsd.com)
		99 points by mbs348 on Aug 16, 2012 \| 91 comments
21.		Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean (wired.com)
		94 points by a5seo on Aug 16, 2012 \| 24 comments
22.		Bitcoin-using Autonomous Agents (bitcoin.it)
		92 points by alnis on Aug 16, 2012 \| 17 comments
23.		Pytrace - a fast python tracer (github.com/alonho)
		92 points by alonho on Aug 16, 2012 \| 11 comments
24.		A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest (nytimes.com)
		89 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 16, 2012 \| 43 comments
25.		Comparing Standard ML and OCaml (chlipala.net)
		86 points by rohshall on Aug 16, 2012 \| 20 comments
26.		Show HN: Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine (github.com/tlhunter)
		87 points by tlhunter on Aug 16, 2012 \| 27 comments
27.		Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million (nytimes.com)
		93 points by dcosson on Aug 16, 2012 \| 22 comments
28.		Ridejoy for iPhone (ridejoy.com)
		82 points by kalvin on Aug 16, 2012 \| 17 comments
29.		Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API (dev.twitter.com)
		85 points by davewiner on Aug 16, 2012 \| 8 comments
30.		Twitter Gives Developers 6 Months To “Properly” Display Tweet (techcrunch.com)
		78 points by kunle on Aug 16, 2012 \| 29 comments
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