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31.		Daring Adventures with Passive Income (patrick-wied.at)
		77 points by dgarner on Aug 2, 2012 \| 43 comments
32.		Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million (nytimes.com)
		73 points by rkaplan on Aug 2, 2012 \| 91 comments
33.		VoiceGem (YC S12) Brings Communication Back To The Future (techcrunch.com)
		74 points by abless on Aug 2, 2012 \| 24 comments
34.		Why I Turned Down $160,000 (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
		70 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 2, 2012 \| 56 comments
35.		Sorting of integers and floats 23% faster in PostgreSQL 9.2 (long explanation) (pgeoghegan.blogspot.com)
		69 points by selenamarie on Aug 2, 2012 \| 8 comments
36.		Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (smashingmagazine.com)
		67 points by rileyt on Aug 2, 2012 \| 7 comments
37.		Python Concurrency: An Example of a Queue (pythonlibrary.org)
		65 points by driscollis on Aug 2, 2012 \| 12 comments
38.		The inconsistencies in your site's color palette (coderwall.com)
		63 points by beghbali on Aug 2, 2012 \| 31 comments
39.		FiveStars (YC W11) Picks Up $14 Million to Challenge the Loyalty Punch Card (allthingsd.com)
		59 points by jingsong on Aug 2, 2012 \| 33 comments
40.		Pacific Fibre cable project sunk by US fears about Chinese espionage (interest.co.nz)
		57 points by steve19 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 60 comments
41.		Human cycles: History as science (nature.com)
		55 points by ananyob on Aug 2, 2012 \| 34 comments
42.		Kickstarter project Turf Geography Club launches its “Foursquare + Monopoly” app (thenextweb.com)
		51 points by stevefink on Aug 2, 2012 \| 19 comments
43.		Writing graphics software gets much easier (web.mit.edu)
		52 points by maxko87 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 9 comments
44.		Sean Parker's Airtime deflates (nytimes.com)
		49 points by SFnoob on Aug 2, 2012 \| 52 comments
45.		A comic that sums up 90% of the "advice for startup founders" literature (harkavagrant.com)
		47 points by smacktoward on Aug 2, 2012 \| 11 comments
46.		India's street children bank on the future (france24.com)
		48 points by zerop on Aug 2, 2012 \| 14 comments
47.		Why thread-based application parallelism is trumped in the multicore era (ibm.com)
		46 points by anupj on Aug 2, 2012 \| 23 comments
48.		Microsoft demos muscle-computer interface, air Guitar Hero now a reality (pcgerms.com)
		45 points by jhony_d on Aug 2, 2012 \| 29 comments
49.		How America's Broken Meritocracy Drives Our National Anxiety Epidemic (theatlantic.com)
		45 points by Firebrand on Aug 2, 2012 \| 16 comments
50.		E la Carte (YC S10) to Deploy Restaurant Tablets in 113 Airports Nationwide (pandodaily.com)
		41 points by yoniriemer on Aug 2, 2012 \| 17 comments
51.		Tell Your Boss Anything (tellyourbossanything.com)
		41 points by maxcameron on Aug 2, 2012 \| 49 comments
52.		Get Started Writing iOS Apps With RubyMotion (smashingmagazine.com)
		41 points by jballanc on Aug 2, 2012 \| 15 comments
53.		Sorting improvements in PostgreSQL 9.2: the case for micro-optimisation (pgeoghegan.blogspot.no)
		41 points by martinp on Aug 2, 2012 \| 4 comments
54.		Pixate promises app UI production in pure CSS (webdev360.com)
		41 points by pcolton on Aug 2, 2012 \| 25 comments
55.		How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley (jasonshen.com)
		42 points by jasonshen on Aug 2, 2012 \| 10 comments
56.		Unsupervised Billboard Detection (adstruc.com)
		40 points by madhkrish on Aug 2, 2012 \| 12 comments
57.		How everyone benefits from Verizon’s FCC-mandated free tethering (extremetech.com)
		38 points by maxko87 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 23 comments
58.		Mac Apps with Retina-Display Support (avneeshkohli.com)
		36 points by avneeshk91 on Aug 2, 2012 \| 21 comments
59.		Smart Headlights Let Drivers See Through Rain and Snow (scientificamerican.com)
		35 points by Sukotto on Aug 2, 2012 \| 15 comments
60.		Not perfect but it's time to integrate web notifications (pragmatic.ly)
		35 points by yehanyin on Aug 2, 2012 \| 7 comments
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