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1.		Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square (squareup.com)
		435 points by mynameisraj on Aug 8, 2012 \| 188 comments
2.		First full-resolution images of the Martian surface (nasa.gov)
		435 points by ed209 on Aug 8, 2012 \| 139 comments
3.		Some performance tweaks (github.com/bitly)
		349 points by espeed on Aug 8, 2012 \| 88 comments
4.		Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job (dubfire.net)
		344 points by wglb on Aug 8, 2012 \| 158 comments
5.		Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked (github.com/bundestag)
		325 points by jaseg on Aug 8, 2012 \| 73 comments
6.		Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers (burnerapp.com)
		323 points by gregcohn on Aug 8, 2012 \| 180 comments
7.		Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents (torrentfreak.com)
		203 points by vibrunazo on Aug 8, 2012 \| 40 comments
8.		Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done (weusethat.com)
		201 points by daniel_levine on Aug 8, 2012 \| 43 comments
9.		Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age (techcrunch.com)
		190 points by irunbackwards on Aug 8, 2012 \| 99 comments
10.		Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop (phoronix.com)
		184 points by zeis on Aug 8, 2012 \| 117 comments
11.		How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad (smithsonianmag.com)
		180 points by e1ven on Aug 8, 2012 \| 143 comments
12.		Starbucks Chooses Square for Payments (squareup.com)
		180 points by MIT_Hacker on Aug 8, 2012 \| 63 comments
13.		Steam Expands Beyond Games (steampowered.com)
		172 points by mxfh on Aug 8, 2012 \| 107 comments
14.		Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?
		171 points by OoTheNigerian on Aug 8, 2012 \| 151 comments
15.		Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion (3news.co.nz)
		167 points by AhtiK on Aug 8, 2012 \| 92 comments
16.		Panorama picture of Mars (panoramas.dk)
		159 points by rkudeshi on Aug 8, 2012 \| 35 comments
17.		My TEDx Talk about Entrepreneurial Depression / Happiness (elasticsales.com)
		150 points by SteliE on Aug 8, 2012 \| 27 comments
18.		Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets (wired.com)
		130 points by derpenxyne on Aug 8, 2012 \| 55 comments
19.		Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10 (arstechnica.com)
		128 points by iProject on Aug 8, 2012 \| 107 comments
20.		Trello Android App Available for Download (trello.com)
		128 points by aritraghosh007 on Aug 8, 2012 \| 41 comments
21.		Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware (daltoncaldwell.com)
		131 points by auston on Aug 8, 2012 \| 118 comments
22.		How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs. (rudd-o.com)
		122 points by res0nat0r on Aug 8, 2012 \| 102 comments
23.		Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years' (abcnews.go.com)
		122 points by littlesparkvt on Aug 8, 2012 \| 166 comments
24.		Android and iOS continue to carve up the world (engadget.com)
		116 points by srathi on Aug 8, 2012 \| 90 comments
25.		Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery (cnet.com)
		109 points by apoorvamehta on Aug 8, 2012 \| 58 comments
26.		How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos (arstechnica.com)
		106 points by joshlegs on Aug 8, 2012 \| 32 comments
27.		John Schappert, Zynga COO, Resigns (sec.gov)
		88 points by bryanh on Aug 8, 2012 \| 23 comments
28.		Lon Seidman gets YouTube takedown notice for public domain video from NASA (plus.google.com)
		87 points by codeka on Aug 8, 2012 \| 56 comments
29.		BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First (wsj.com)
		84 points by mmccauley on Aug 8, 2012 \| 46 comments
30.		Elnode, the EmacsLisp webserver, nears release (ferrier.me.uk)
		82 points by nic-ferrier on Aug 8, 2012 \| 30 comments
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