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1.
Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 (eranki.tumblr.com)
418 points by eranki on July 12, 2012 | 84 comments
2.
UK anti-encryption law (falkvinge.net)
356 points by timf on July 12, 2012 | 191 comments
3.
Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America (theatlantic.com)
259 points by joshuahedlund on July 12, 2012 | 82 comments
4.
Some things I've learnt about programming (jgc.org)
248 points by jgrahamc on July 12, 2012 | 124 comments
5.
Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg (betaworks.com)
251 points by mikerice on July 12, 2012 | 129 comments
6.
Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless (discussions.apple.com)
234 points by wesbos on July 12, 2012 | 203 comments
7.
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers' (wired.com)
213 points by ajdecon on July 12, 2012 | 64 comments
8.
Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web (mozilla.org)
211 points by ojr on July 12, 2012 | 127 comments
9.
Vim, you complete me (thoughtbot.com)
193 points by Croaky on July 12, 2012 | 114 comments
10.
We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned (patrickambron.me)
181 points by jordanmessina on July 12, 2012 | 111 comments
11.
EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor (oscargodson.github.com)
165 points by mars on July 12, 2012 | 27 comments
12.
Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity (mashable.com)
165 points by adventureful on July 12, 2012 | 157 comments
13.
Pay Too Much for everything (allentucker.com)
161 points by tchalla on July 12, 2012 | 161 comments
14.
What PHP 5.5 might look like (nikic.github.com)
154 points by nikic on July 12, 2012 | 133 comments
15.
Rust 0.3 released (github.com/mozilla)
138 points by eslaught on July 12, 2012 | 53 comments
16.
My Senior Design Project: Node.js WiFi-Extending Robot (glench.com)
117 points by Glench on July 12, 2012 | 28 comments
17.
Being a Solo Founder of a 24x7 Hosted Web Application (garrettdimon.com)
110 points by tortilla on July 12, 2012 | 43 comments
18.
You Can Get a Better Job If You Just Ask (hash-money.com)
105 points by nhashem on July 12, 2012 | 31 comments
19.
A 12pt Font Should Be The Same Size Everywhere (github.com/kickingvegas)
101 points by kickingvegas on July 12, 2012 | 64 comments
20.
Smooth Voxel Terrain (0fps.wordpress.com)
95 points by mariuz on July 12, 2012 | 6 comments
21.
Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes (mahdiyusuf.com)
94 points by talmirza on July 12, 2012 | 74 comments
22.
I Believe in Gittip (gittip.com)
94 points by jordanmessina on July 12, 2012 | 55 comments
23.
Betaworks to Pay $500,000 for Fallen Social Media Star Digg (wsj.com)
85 points by uptown on July 12, 2012 | 60 comments
24.
Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today (paulbjensen.co.uk)
83 points by paulbjensen on July 12, 2012 | 99 comments
25.
SOPA architect now pushing for “IP Attaché” legislation (arstechnica.com)
76 points by narad on July 12, 2012 | 14 comments
26.
Filepicker.io (YC S12) launches SDK for iOS and Android (techcrunch.com)
70 points by tagx on July 12, 2012 | 13 comments
27.
Try It Quiet (wekeroad.com)
66 points by jbueza on July 12, 2012 | 31 comments
28.
The reality of the Ouya console doesn’t match the hype (penny-arcade.com)
65 points by reidmain on July 12, 2012 | 86 comments
29.
An idea for Github to make more money (umairashraf.me)
65 points by umrashrf on July 12, 2012 | 51 comments
30.
City of Helsinki Wants To Keep Software Costs Secret (fsfe.org)
60 points by MRonney on July 12, 2012 | 24 comments

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