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1.		Do you have a secret? (doyouhaveasecret.org)
		432 points by chuckharmston on Aug 1, 2012 \| 105 comments
2.		Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game (kickstarter.com)
		298 points by druidsbane on Aug 1, 2012 \| 111 comments
3.		Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)
		276 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2012 \| 291 comments
4.		Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills (arstechnica.com)
		250 points by chaud on Aug 1, 2012 \| 83 comments
5.		The new Digg (digg.com)
		230 points by instakill on Aug 1, 2012 \| 193 comments
6.		Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting (baligu.blogspot.com)
		217 points by jonathanberger on Aug 1, 2012 \| 188 comments
7.		This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML (code.google.com)
		198 points by Swizec on Aug 1, 2012 \| 20 comments
8.		Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview (robbieabed.com)
		176 points by robbiea on Aug 1, 2012 \| 126 comments
9.		Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared (stevensanderson.com)
		167 points by jashkenas on Aug 1, 2012 \| 70 comments
10.		Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube To Stifle Speech (techdirt.com)
		161 points by tomse on Aug 1, 2012 \| 37 comments
11.		Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery (techcrunch.com)
		157 points by apoorvamehta on Aug 1, 2012 \| 98 comments
12.		Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow (cnbc.com)
		157 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 1, 2012 \| 149 comments
13.		Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events (cnn.com)
		153 points by bootload on Aug 1, 2012 \| 157 comments
14.		Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD (venturebeat.com)
		151 points by neya on Aug 1, 2012 \| 78 comments
15.		Bicycle skills (johndcook.com)
		150 points by ehamberg on Aug 1, 2012 \| 88 comments
16.		A sudoku solver in 33 lines of Clojure (gist.github.com)
		148 points by ibdknox on Aug 1, 2012 \| 37 comments
17.		Productivity Porn (vivekhaldar.com)
		142 points by gandalfgeek on Aug 1, 2012 \| 54 comments
18.		Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication (arstechnica.com)
		129 points by palebluedot on Aug 1, 2012 \| 62 comments
19.		Craig Newmark, the Principled Jerk (jeremymims.com)
		126 points by lloydarmbrust on Aug 1, 2012 \| 102 comments
20.		Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets? (bbc.co.uk)
		122 points by pmiller2 on Aug 1, 2012 \| 75 comments
21.		A Bad Privacy Bug (blog.pinboard.in)
		110 points by stilist on Aug 1, 2012 \| 46 comments
22.		reveal.js: HTML5 based Slide Presentation Tool (github.com/hakimel)
		110 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 1, 2012 \| 32 comments
23.		Show HN: My one month side-project, Lucid Tracker: a daily life tracking tool (lucidtracker.com)
		113 points by matt1 on Aug 1, 2012 \| 67 comments
24.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)
		98 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2012 \| 91 comments
25.		The Commodore 64 (C64) is 30 years old today (bbc.co.uk)
		99 points by petercooper on Aug 1, 2012 \| 41 comments
26.		Why “just do it” is bullshit (wayoftheduck.com)
		98 points by dwynings on Aug 1, 2012 \| 74 comments
27.		Dropbox: Security update & new features (dropbox.com)
		95 points by marklabedz on Aug 1, 2012 \| 62 comments
28.		Stuff Harvard, MIT, Stanford & Caltech People Like (echen.me)
		94 points by krat0sprakhar on Aug 1, 2012 \| 20 comments
29.		Craigslist posts shown on a map while viewing Craigslist housing (chrome.google.com)
		93 points by welder on Aug 1, 2012 \| 72 comments
30.		NSHipster: a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C (nshipster.com)
		90 points by jamesjyu on Aug 1, 2012 \| 19 comments
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