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1.		Great work Visa, now I hate you (modern-products.tumblr.com)
		551 points by roee on Aug 6, 2012 \| 261 comments
2.		A Man Walks into a Bank (ft.com)
		479 points by jkharness87 on Aug 6, 2012 \| 175 comments
3.		Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune (kalzumeus.com)
		409 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 6, 2012 \| 154 comments
4.		NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing (nasa.gov)
		267 points by DavidSJ on Aug 6, 2012 \| 94 comments
5.		One Thousand Dollars an Hour (samsoff.es)
		258 points by jamesjyu on Aug 6, 2012 \| 155 comments
6.		Github: Notifications & Stars (github.com/blog)
		257 points by telemachos on Aug 6, 2012 \| 84 comments
7.		Photo shows Mars rover descent (bbc.co.uk)
		187 points by zoowar on Aug 6, 2012 \| 59 comments
8.		How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works (about-robots.com)
		174 points by 0xbadcafebee on Aug 6, 2012 \| 96 comments
9.		Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government (torrentfreak.com)
		141 points by rkudeshi on Aug 6, 2012 \| 181 comments
10.		Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified (statwing.com)
		135 points by glaugh on Aug 6, 2012 \| 50 comments
11.		Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago (viniciusvacanti.com)
		132 points by vacanti on Aug 6, 2012 \| 28 comments
12.		Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey (cemerick.com)
		125 points by mattdeboard on Aug 6, 2012 \| 40 comments
13.		Huffshell: You probably type too much. (paulmckellar.com)
		119 points by socmoth on Aug 6, 2012 \| 54 comments
14.		I didn't learn programming when I was 12 (kennyletran.com)
		109 points by kennyt on Aug 6, 2012 \| 80 comments
15.		Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd (datadoghq.com)
		107 points by Vvick727 on Aug 6, 2012 \| 50 comments
16.		Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight (ieee.org)
		102 points by eguizzo on Aug 6, 2012 \| 16 comments
17.		What is the Mars Curiosity Rover's software built in? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		99 points by joshuahedlund on Aug 6, 2012 \| 28 comments
18.		The Power of Negative Thinking (nytimes.com)
		97 points by PaulMcCartney on Aug 6, 2012 \| 28 comments
19.		Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to the cloud" (france24.com)
		93 points by esolyt on Aug 6, 2012 \| 47 comments
20.		MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iOS Game Developers (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by DesaiAshu on Aug 6, 2012 \| 44 comments
21.		Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks (wikipedia.org)
		93 points by bradgessler on Aug 6, 2012 \| 44 comments
22.		X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X (imore.com)
		90 points by codedivine on Aug 6, 2012 \| 119 comments
23.		Elevator Dispatch Algorithms (smartplanet.com)
		87 points by kumarski on Aug 6, 2012 \| 23 comments
24.		The First Simple Symmetric 11-Venn Diagram found (uvic.ca)
		86 points by Rickasaurus on Aug 6, 2012 \| 19 comments
25.		How to get an Internet connection to a field for a hacker camping festival (emfcamp.org)
		85 points by jonty on Aug 6, 2012 \| 13 comments
26.		As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube (arstechnica.com)
		82 points by evo_9 on Aug 6, 2012 \| 23 comments
27.		3D-printed exoskeleton helps young girl use her arms (futuretimeline.net)
		82 points by Dinoguy1000 on Aug 6, 2012 \| 17 comments
28.		Space isn't ours. (flax.ie)
		82 points by redfloatplane on Aug 6, 2012 \| 75 comments
29.		War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties (9to5mac.com)
		79 points by Empro on Aug 6, 2012 \| 69 comments
30.		Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes (jgc.org)
		78 points by jgrahamc on Aug 6, 2012 \| 14 comments
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