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31.		Cleaning bad code (gamasutra.com)
		65 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2012 \| 21 comments
32.		Healthy Labs (YC S12) Wants To Be Go-To Site For People With Chronic Illness (techcrunch.com)
		65 points by ssclafani on Aug 21, 2012 \| 11 comments
33.		Silicon Valley != The Internet (The CEO of Yammer says the darndest things) (diegobasch.com)
		64 points by diego on Aug 21, 2012 \| 23 comments
34.		Pictonic adds 1000 new font icons, including a free programming language set (pictonic.co)
		55 points by alz on Aug 21, 2012 \| 26 comments
35.		This Website Only Open During Business Hours (freakonomics.com)
		51 points by a5seo on Aug 21, 2012 \| 35 comments
36.		Dev Bootcamp is the future of our industry (dickey.xxx)
		51 points by dickeytk on Aug 21, 2012 \| 19 comments
37.		It's Official: Consciousness Is Not Unique to Humans (charbonniers.org)
		50 points by sirteno on Aug 21, 2012 \| 77 comments
38.		Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8 (pcgamesn.com)
		49 points by ElliotH on Aug 21, 2012 \| 75 comments
39.		Udacity Cancels Free Online Math Course, Citing Low Quality (chronicle.com)
		49 points by ilamont on Aug 21, 2012 \| 21 comments
40.		Feds to Break Up Tech’s Investor Party (wired.com)
		47 points by lnguyen on Aug 21, 2012 \| 12 comments
41.		AWS Blog: Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month (aws.typepad.com)
		44 points by jeffbarr on Aug 21, 2012 \| 1 comment
42.		Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’ (techcrunch.com)
		45 points by thedoctor on Aug 21, 2012 \| 33 comments
43.		Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 1 (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by kacy on Aug 21, 2012 \| 22 comments
44.		Charlie Kaufman 70-minute screenwriting lecture (nofilmschool.com)
		40 points by k3fernan on Aug 21, 2012 \| 2 comments
45.		Education data startup Clever (S12) hits big milestone, makes new hire (gigaom.com)
		40 points by 2arrs2ells on Aug 21, 2012 \| 15 comments
46.		Publicly Launched Teams of YC S12 (refer.ly)
		38 points by kclick on Aug 21, 2012 \| 17 comments
47.		International Object Sizing Tool (jgc.org)
		37 points by jgrahamc on Aug 21, 2012 \| 8 comments
48.		FreshBooks moves from Online Invoicing to Cloud Accounting (freshbooks.com)
		32 points by oxwrist on Aug 21, 2012 \| 30 comments
49.		Referly (YC S12) lets businesses create their own rewards networks (venturebeat.com)
		34 points by dmor on Aug 21, 2012 \| 11 comments
50.		Cassandra Summit 2012 - Slides and Videos (datastax.com)
		31 points by tylerhobbs on Aug 21, 2012 \| 2 comments
51.		Why JSON will continue to push XML out of the picture (appfog.com)
		29 points by lucperkins on Aug 21, 2012 \| 45 comments
52.		What I've Learned So Far (Python in 30 Days) (rodriguezcommaj.com)
		30 points by rodriguezcommaj on Aug 21, 2012 \| 10 comments
53.		Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 3 (techcrunch.com)
		29 points by relation on Aug 21, 2012 \| 1 comment
54.		Demystifying Site Outages (etsy.com)
		30 points by mcfunley on Aug 21, 2012 \| 11 comments
55.		Glassmap (YC S11) Launches v2.0: Social News Feed Meets Real-Time Map (techcrunch.com)
		30 points by jonochang on Aug 21, 2012 \| 8 comments
56.		Vim - Putting arrows to use (codingfearlessly.com)
		29 points by mmozuras on Aug 21, 2012 \| 40 comments
57.		Normalize v2.0.1 - optimized for modern browsers (necolas.github.com)
		28 points by necolas on Aug 21, 2012 \| 13 comments
58.		Ask Old-School HN: What was it like pre internet?
		27 points by jfaucett on Aug 21, 2012 \| 28 comments
59.		What's holding up .NET 4.5 support on AppHarbor? (appharbor.com)
		26 points by dmalenko on Aug 21, 2012 \| 7 comments
60.		Y Combinator Demo Day: Amicus makes good and money for non-profits (venturebeat.com)
		27 points by sethbannon on Aug 21, 2012 \| 1 comment
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