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1.		Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation. (fullcontact.com)
		388 points by lorangb on July 11, 2012 \| 308 comments
2.		Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust (aaronwinborn.com)
		361 points by famoreira on July 11, 2012 \| 87 comments
3.		Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records (kickstarter.com)
		215 points by sethbannon on July 11, 2012 \| 172 comments
4.		John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update (ejohn.org)
		214 points by shill on July 11, 2012 \| 64 comments
5.		Entreporn: Learning vs doing vs wasting time (swombat.com)
		206 points by _hgt1 on July 11, 2012 \| 50 comments
6.		Interview with Alan Kay (drdobbs.com)
		203 points by gits1225 on July 11, 2012 \| 108 comments
7.		Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files (coderwall.com)
		181 points by rover on July 11, 2012 \| 58 comments
8.		Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law (schneier.com)
		180 points by thoughtsimple on July 11, 2012 \| 36 comments
9.		Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note (reddit.com)
		157 points by achughes on July 11, 2012 \| 67 comments
10.		The Crazy World of Code (tilomitra.com)
		150 points by hobonumber1 on July 11, 2012 \| 87 comments
11.		Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million (wmhartnett.com)
		139 points by wmhartnett on July 11, 2012 \| 125 comments
12.		Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha (tapbots.com)
		139 points by jforrest on July 11, 2012 \| 62 comments
13.		Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute (arstechnica.com)
		120 points by shawndumas on July 11, 2012 \| 120 comments
14.		I was sued for libel under an unjust law (nature.com)
		118 points by capo on July 11, 2012 \| 64 comments
15.		City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products (mashable.com)
		115 points by Jagat on July 11, 2012 \| 105 comments
16.		ZeroCater (YC W11) is Feeding Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
		106 points by guiseppecalzone on July 11, 2012 \| 35 comments
17.		HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory "by 2014" (wired.com)
		105 points by hornokplease on July 11, 2012 \| 55 comments
18.		Getting Started with Android Development (alexlod.com)
		99 points by falava on July 11, 2012 \| 26 comments
19.		Coding Horror: The Book (codinghorror.com)
		95 points by bussetta on July 11, 2012 \| 34 comments
20.		Meetings.io (YC W11) now has screen sharing and file sharing built in. (lifehacker.com)
		94 points by denismars on July 11, 2012 \| 26 comments
21.		Court Recognizes DMCA Safe Harbor in Universal v Grooveshark Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
		89 points by hycomor on July 11, 2012 \| 76 comments
22.		Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious online attacks (theglobeandmail.com)
		79 points by jellicle on July 11, 2012 \| 164 comments
23.		Show HN: Evertracker - My First Real Side Project (danielna.com)
		80 points by danielna on July 11, 2012 \| 23 comments
24.		Super Neat Product Tutorial Website / Software (kera.io)
		78 points by skadamat on July 11, 2012 \| 42 comments
25.		A web-based interface for dev-op tasks across remote servers using SSH (kickstarter.com)
		76 points by gwil on July 11, 2012 \| 58 comments
26.		NYC Just Converted 10 Payphones into Free WiFi Hotspots (thenextweb.com)
		77 points by casemorton on July 11, 2012 \| 37 comments
27.		Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America (postmasculine.com)
		73 points by felipellrocha on July 11, 2012 \| 86 comments
28.		Twitter says they fixed the Memcache calcification problem. Dormando disagrees. (github.com/twitter)
		73 points by diwup on July 11, 2012 \| 37 comments
29.		Gccgo in GCC 4.7.1 (golang.org)
		72 points by fss on July 11, 2012 \| 44 comments
30.		An events space and a design studio for Hacker Dojo (kickstarter.com)
		73 points by dustball on July 11, 2012 \| 22 comments
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