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1.		EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal (internetdefenseleague.org)
		429 points by mtgx on July 19, 2012 \| 140 comments
2.		Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life (wmpoweruser.com)
		326 points by yread on July 19, 2012 \| 203 comments
3.		Living with HTTPS (imperialviolet.org)
		326 points by daniel02216 on July 19, 2012 \| 126 comments
4.		15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test (makezine.com)
		285 points by swombat on July 19, 2012 \| 84 comments
5.		Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second (thekidshouldseethis.com)
		274 points by yk on July 19, 2012 \| 29 comments
6.		Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever (msn.com)
		272 points by sbashyal on July 19, 2012 \| 116 comments
7.		Tell, don't ask (thoughtbot.com)
		216 points by djacobs on July 19, 2012 \| 86 comments
8.		Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic (corkami.com)
		209 points by philthom on July 19, 2012 \| 34 comments
9.		Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory (extremetech.com)
		208 points by mrsebastian on July 19, 2012 \| 84 comments
10.		New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage (aws.typepad.com)
		196 points by jeffbarr on July 19, 2012 \| 102 comments
11.		Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks (blog.mozilla.org)
		177 points by AndrewDucker on July 19, 2012 \| 121 comments
12.		Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec' (networkworld.com)
		171 points by boopsie on July 19, 2012 \| 123 comments
13.		Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide (dailyjs.com)
		160 points by jashkenas on July 19, 2012 \| 37 comments
14.		Inconsolata (levien.com)
		156 points by Cieplak on July 19, 2012 \| 60 comments
15.		Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (buildnewgames.com)
		150 points by EtienneK on July 19, 2012 \| 60 comments
16.		How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us? (eatingacademy.com)
		143 points by fhoxh on July 19, 2012 \| 181 comments
17.		Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser (canonical.com)
		138 points by sciurus on July 19, 2012 \| 77 comments
18.		Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX (techcrunch.com)
		133 points by craigkerstiens on July 19, 2012 \| 56 comments
19.		Epicyclic Gearing (ocks.org)
		131 points by llambda on July 19, 2012 \| 20 comments
20.		Shell social media oil spill a 'coordinated online assassination' (theage.com.au)
		119 points by nreece on July 19, 2012 \| 111 comments
21.		Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History (cbs19.tv)
		117 points by z92 on July 19, 2012 \| 86 comments
22.		Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM (hanselman.com)
		112 points by jmcqk6 on July 19, 2012 \| 81 comments
23.		Mozilla Wants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Firefox OS Developers (techweekeurope.co.uk)
		107 points by maudlinmau5 on July 19, 2012 \| 53 comments
24.		The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to (venturebeat.com)
		100 points by vtry on July 19, 2012 \| 109 comments
25.		Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. (techcrunch.com)
		85 points by kunle on July 19, 2012 \| 120 comments
26.		Apple granted broad mobile patent (macworld.co.uk)
		85 points by ianox on July 19, 2012 \| 99 comments
27.		Shoehorning startups into the VC model (cdixon.org)
		82 points by darrelsumi on July 19, 2012 \| 13 comments
28.		Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS (netflix.com)
		79 points by riffraff on July 19, 2012 \| 13 comments
29.		Google Chrome Web Lab is now live in beta. (chromeweblab.com)
		75 points by Brajeshwar on July 19, 2012 \| 14 comments
30.		Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling (wired.com)
		74 points by rdl on July 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
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