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1.
ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 (falkvinge.net)
495 points by haileys on July 4, 2012 | 86 comments
2.
Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins (cern.ch)
278 points by Rickasaurus on July 4, 2012 | 211 comments
3.
Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator (eff.org)
269 points by kevinpacheco on July 4, 2012 | 61 comments
4.
PHP is much better than what you think (potencier.org)
248 points by timmipetit on July 4, 2012 | 334 comments
5.
CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson (cern.ch)
234 points by sdiwakar on July 4, 2012 | 57 comments
6.
Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less (hilarymason.com)
204 points by gmodena on July 4, 2012 | 15 comments
7.
The Perfect Compliment (esquire.com)
194 points by Firebrand on July 4, 2012 | 61 comments
8.
Tarsnap outage post-mortem (daemonology.net)
190 points by cperciva on July 4, 2012 | 52 comments
9.
Things I like about programming in Go (jgc.org)
181 points by jgrahamc on July 4, 2012 | 110 comments
10.
Stephen Hawking lost $100 bet over Higgs boson discovery (bbc.co.uk)
177 points by mproud on July 4, 2012 | 41 comments
11.
HTC wins swipe to unlock patent dispute against Apple (bbc.com)
168 points by saket123 on July 4, 2012 | 87 comments
12.
4 min Emacs screencast inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle (emacsrocks.com)
163 points by magnars on July 4, 2012 | 34 comments
13.
Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki (wired.com)
148 points by dctoedt on July 4, 2012 | 70 comments
14.
Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch (marco.org)
147 points by shawndumas on July 4, 2012 | 49 comments
15.
The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money (nationalgeographic.com)
146 points by ramabk on July 4, 2012 | 68 comments
16.
A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis (discrete.gr)
132 points by gtklocker on July 4, 2012 | 23 comments
17.
Beautiful Windows 8 concept (dribbble.com)
120 points by dutchbrit on July 4, 2012 | 52 comments
18.
Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details (sjbn.co)
119 points by doh on July 4, 2012 | 22 comments
19.
Steve Jobs on Average vs Best Software Developers (benlakey.com)
112 points by benlakey on July 4, 2012 | 123 comments
20.
Godel's 2nd Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable (kenyon.edu)
100 points by daviddaviddavid on July 4, 2012 | 58 comments
21.
Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language (jeremyckahn.github.com)
97 points by toni on July 4, 2012 | 95 comments
22.
Valve hands over its own movie-making tools to gamers (gizmag.com)
96 points by yitchelle on July 4, 2012 | 28 comments
23.
Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News (vlad.github.com)
95 points by vlad on July 4, 2012 | 44 comments
24.
Solve problems. Don't build ideas. (jmarbach.com)
92 points by jmarbach on July 4, 2012 | 30 comments
25.
Try git in your browser (github.com/blog)
89 points by julien on July 4, 2012 | 10 comments
26.
Bitmit - Buy and sell goods with Bitcoin (bitmit.net)
87 points by basil on July 4, 2012 | 35 comments
27.
Single Dad Building Sequel To “Jetpack” Video Game He Built As A Teenager (techcrunch.com)
82 points by thegarside on July 4, 2012 | 27 comments
28.
Jean-Louis Gassée: Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too (computing.co.uk)
81 points by mtgx on July 4, 2012 | 78 comments
29.
Replacing text in the DOM… solved? (padolsey.com)
79 points by bpierre on July 4, 2012 | 16 comments
30.
Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling (fosspatents.com)
77 points by mjfern on July 4, 2012 | 104 comments

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