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1.
Fog of World (fogofworld.com)
274 points by olliwang on Sept 29, 2012 | 157 comments
2.
The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) (theatlantic.com)
235 points by geon on Sept 29, 2012 | 121 comments
3.
Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system (developer.mozilla.org)
194 points by 00joe on Sept 29, 2012 | 51 comments
4.
Slate: Tiling window management for OS X (github.com/jigish)
170 points by jrajav on Sept 29, 2012 | 26 comments
5.
Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) (okdork.com)
159 points by frankdenbow on Sept 29, 2012 | 92 comments
6.
Flowplayer 5.0.0 (flowplayer.org)
155 points by AntonTrollback on Sept 29, 2012 | 65 comments
7.
Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics (github.com/gurgeh)
154 points by krat0sprakhar on Sept 29, 2012 | 25 comments
8.
How does SSL work? (security.stackexchange.com)
152 points by lucb1e on Sept 29, 2012 | 44 comments
9.
Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem? (cnn.com)
134 points by olivercameron on Sept 29, 2012 | 124 comments
10.
European entrepreneurs: Les misérables (economist.com)
123 points by keiferski on Sept 29, 2012 | 91 comments
11.
Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (arxiv.org)
107 points by confluence on Sept 29, 2012 | 123 comments
12.
Attack of the Fifty-Foot NIMBYs (stanford.edu)
106 points by jmias on Sept 29, 2012 | 93 comments
13.
Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead (technologyreview.com)
106 points by oliversong on Sept 29, 2012 | 74 comments
14.
This white powder will kill me one day (jacquesmattheij.com)
105 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 29, 2012 | 178 comments
15.
Aircraft Carriers in Space (foreignpolicy.com)
101 points by stargazer-3 on Sept 29, 2012 | 71 comments
16.
A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon (linja-aho.blogspot.fi)
101 points by jerguismi on Sept 29, 2012 | 18 comments
17.
Someone forgot to renew NodeJS.org (nodejs.org)
100 points by pixelmonkey on Sept 29, 2012 | 71 comments
18.
Letting Employees Work Remotely Pays Off (inc.com)
91 points by czue on Sept 29, 2012 | 35 comments
19.
'Babylon 5' star Michael O'Hare dies at 60 (11alive.com)
88 points by br0ke on Sept 29, 2012 | 14 comments
20.
freeSoC and freeSoC Mini (kickstarter.com)
86 points by _juof on Sept 29, 2012 | 31 comments
21.
Hacker's Delight, 2nd Edition (informit.com)
81 points by gits1225 on Sept 29, 2012 | 11 comments
22.
As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan’s tech giants are in a free fall (washingtonpost.com)
74 points by ylem on Sept 29, 2012 | 83 comments
23.
Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X (github.com/fjolnir)
76 points by fyolnish on Sept 29, 2012 | 34 comments
24.
Making Jet Fuel From Seawater While at Sea (navy.mil)
72 points by joe24pack on Sept 29, 2012 | 80 comments
25.
Metro Apps Can Only Be Distributed Through Windows Store (answers.microsoft.com)
71 points by basisword on Sept 29, 2012 | 108 comments
26.
Lessons From The Dramatic Slow-Motion Death Of Wikitravel (techcrunch.com)
62 points by uladzislau on Sept 29, 2012 | 30 comments
27.
The Lowest Fare? Ask the Crowd (nytimes.com)
64 points by todsul on Sept 29, 2012 | 15 comments
28.
Twitter is a tragic tale (scripting.com)
60 points by xivSolutions on Sept 29, 2012 | 16 comments
29.
Slackware 14.0 released (slackware.com)
60 points by onosendai on Sept 29, 2012 | 47 comments
30.
Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display (browserfame.com)
59 points by twapi on Sept 29, 2012 | 55 comments

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