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1.		Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative) (indiegogo.com)
		326 points by SanderMak on Aug 15, 2012 \| 81 comments
2.		The first Django site to run on Python 3 (myks.org)
		283 points by mYk on Aug 15, 2012 \| 53 comments
3.		What I Hate About Working At Facebook (worldofsu.com)
		273 points by dshankar on Aug 15, 2012 \| 183 comments
4.		Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS (codepen.io)
		243 points by michaelkscott on Aug 15, 2012 \| 65 comments
5.		Fly to 6 Continents in Style (flightfox.com)
		240 points by laumac on Aug 15, 2012 \| 81 comments
6.		Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (andrewchen.co)
		226 points by dko on Aug 15, 2012 \| 90 comments
7.		The Making of Warcraft, Part 2 (codeofhonor.com)
		213 points by mcfunley on Aug 15, 2012 \| 14 comments
8.		Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database (arstechnica.com)
		196 points by smartician on Aug 15, 2012 \| 132 comments
9.		UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange (bbc.co.uk)
		188 points by Simon_M on Aug 15, 2012 \| 267 comments
10.		How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness (penny-arcade.com)
		184 points by PixelRobot on Aug 15, 2012 \| 124 comments
11.		Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud (kickstarter.com)
		174 points by urza on Aug 15, 2012 \| 51 comments
12.		Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) (schneier.com)
		166 points by selenamarie on Aug 15, 2012 \| 259 comments
13.		MySQL vs PostgreSQL (wikivs.com)
		160 points by llambda on Aug 15, 2012 \| 104 comments
14.		Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators (rt.com)
		156 points by MrBlue on Aug 15, 2012 \| 82 comments
15.		Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 (amazon.com)
		155 points by matthewlmcclure on Aug 15, 2012 \| 103 comments
16.		ViaCycle (YC S12) Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon (techcrunch.com)
		150 points by koji on Aug 15, 2012 \| 134 comments
17.		Normalize.css v1.0.0 (necolas.github.com)
		146 points by necolas on Aug 15, 2012 \| 30 comments
18.		MPEG claims its new standard H.265 halves video bandwidth with no quality loss (itwire.com)
		143 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 15, 2012 \| 124 comments
19.		Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released (msdn.com)
		143 points by cygwin98 on Aug 15, 2012 \| 78 comments
20.		GCC switches from C to C++ (gcc.gnu.org)
		142 points by Xyzodiac on Aug 15, 2012 \| 109 comments
21.		Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes (owningyourshit.blogspot.ca)
		132 points by iProject on Aug 15, 2012 \| 54 comments
22.		Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed (techcrunch.com)
		137 points by spathak on Aug 15, 2012 \| 60 comments
23.		Flash Player exits Android (bbc.com)
		132 points by equilibrium on Aug 15, 2012 \| 72 comments
24.		Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher (daringfireball.net)
		123 points by raganesh on Aug 15, 2012 \| 91 comments
25.		R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat (io9.com)
		118 points by uladzislau on Aug 15, 2012 \| 18 comments
26.		Uber allowed to continue operating in Boston (mass.gov)
		114 points by nelhage on Aug 15, 2012 \| 23 comments
27.		Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site (techfounder.net)
		98 points by pytrin on Aug 15, 2012 \| 86 comments
28.		Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor (writelatex.com)
		92 points by nkoren on Aug 15, 2012 \| 43 comments
29.		Avgrund: a modal concept, designed to show depth (hakim.se)
		92 points by ujeezy on Aug 15, 2012 \| 17 comments
30.		Humble Indie Bundle for Android 3 (humblebundle.com)
		91 points by c-oreills on Aug 15, 2012 \| 37 comments
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