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1.
What I Hate About Git (steveko.wordpress.com)
417 points by gammarator on Aug 4, 2012 | 301 comments
2.
"The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors" (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)
311 points by zdw on Aug 4, 2012 | 113 comments
3.
OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As' (macperformanceguide.com)
286 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2012 | 146 comments
4.
In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time (slate.com)
197 points by muratmutlu on Aug 4, 2012 | 94 comments
5.
American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics (1045theteam.com)
152 points by ColinWright on Aug 4, 2012 | 52 comments
6.
GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator (haskell.org)
151 points by dons on Aug 4, 2012 | 36 comments
7.
Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch (nytimes.com)
143 points by mindblink on Aug 4, 2012 | 92 comments
8.
Rare Are GC Talks (heroku.com)
138 points by pat_shaughnessy on Aug 4, 2012 | 39 comments
9.
Tindie: like Etsy for electronics (tindie.com)
126 points by anigbrowl on Aug 4, 2012 | 37 comments
10.
Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X (cocoacontrols.com)
116 points by alpb on Aug 4, 2012 | 24 comments
11.
FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm (nytimes.com)
113 points by vollmarj on Aug 4, 2012 | 40 comments
12.
Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever (everyday.me)
104 points by yukuan on Aug 4, 2012 | 74 comments
13.
Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial (wsj.com)
102 points by grellas on Aug 4, 2012 | 95 comments
14.
NASA JPL C Coding Standard [pdf] (nasa.gov)
101 points by m0nastic on Aug 4, 2012 | 60 comments
15.
Facebook unfriended (economist.com)
96 points by briandear on Aug 4, 2012 | 85 comments
16.
Stop UEFI (kephra.de)
91 points by kephra on Aug 4, 2012 | 81 comments
17.
The Naked and the TED (tnr.com)
88 points by tijs on Aug 4, 2012 | 33 comments
18.
"It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap" (yosefk.com)
84 points by dmit on Aug 4, 2012 | 29 comments
19.
Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas (hbr.org)
71 points by michael_fine on Aug 4, 2012 | 45 comments
20.
GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome (chrome.blogspot.se)
63 points by sreeix on Aug 4, 2012 | 37 comments
21.
Quants and the crash (wired.com)
62 points by Maven911 on Aug 4, 2012 | 40 comments
22.
Fun with in-engine color grading (the-witness.net)
61 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 4, 2012 | 12 comments
23.
Virtual memory overhead for trees (github.com/johnj)
59 points by zippie on Aug 4, 2012 | 19 comments
24.
The Linguistic Interface (lubutu.com)
58 points by lubutu on Aug 4, 2012 | 6 comments
25.
Switching from jQuery Mobile to Twitter Bootstrap (pamelafox.org)
58 points by jaynate on Aug 4, 2012 | 18 comments
26.
How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. (fourmilab.ch)
54 points by hmart on Aug 4, 2012 | 32 comments
27.
Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals (theatlantic.com)
51 points by nikunjk on Aug 4, 2012 | 98 comments
28.
3D slider jQuery plugin (philparsons.co.uk)
49 points by philparsons on Aug 4, 2012 | 28 comments
29.
Fake leap seconds being announced by NTP servers, still causing linux crashes (ntp.org)
51 points by 0x0 on Aug 4, 2012 | 13 comments
30.
John Carmack, Kudos to Valve but Linux is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market (ubuntuvibes.com)
47 points by dartttt on Aug 4, 2012 | 56 comments

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