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1.		Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011) (theiacp.org)
		418 points by iamwil on Aug 24, 2012 \| 104 comments
2.		Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y (antjanus.com)
		346 points by antjanus on Aug 24, 2012 \| 144 comments
3.		Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes (techcrunch.com)
		319 points by irunbackwards on Aug 24, 2012 \| 354 comments
4.		Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine (evernote.com)
		283 points by zachh on Aug 24, 2012 \| 143 comments
5.		Some web development tips from a former Digg developer (duruk.net)
		208 points by cancan on Aug 24, 2012 \| 64 comments
6.		Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely. (nadim.cc)
		193 points by derrida on Aug 24, 2012 \| 81 comments
7.		Backbone has made me a better programmer (floatleft.com)
		169 points by appleton on Aug 24, 2012 \| 86 comments
8.		A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed (arstechnica.com)
		159 points by Cieplak on Aug 24, 2012 \| 196 comments
9.		Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway (vg.no)
		142 points by sindhiparsani on Aug 24, 2012 \| 98 comments
10.		Watch Out Mars: 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent (scientificamerican.com)
		137 points by MetallicCloud on Aug 24, 2012 \| 25 comments
11.		Perl gained a feature for fixing communication with the Magellan probe (perl.org)
		137 points by kamaal on Aug 24, 2012 \| 2 comments
12.		Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy (techinasia.com)
		132 points by hoi on Aug 24, 2012 \| 123 comments
13.		My Python Code for the Netflix Prize (github.com/alexbw)
		130 points by alexbw on Aug 24, 2012 \| 28 comments
14.		Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions (red-sweater.com)
		125 points by driverdan on Aug 24, 2012 \| 44 comments
15.		Once a somebody, now a nobody: Starcraft 2 has destroyed my life (olganon.org)
		122 points by voidnothings on Aug 24, 2012 \| 120 comments
16.		Show HN: GoScale Cloud Scaling in Milliseconds (goscale.com)
		118 points by ColinHayhurst on Aug 24, 2012 \| 60 comments
17.		Why I am tired of writing pull requests (gist.io)
		110 points by gistacoder on Aug 24, 2012 \| 64 comments
18.		Groklaw on the Apple v. Samsung jury verdict (groklaw.net)
		109 points by grellas on Aug 24, 2012 \| 31 comments
19.		The dark side of light: negative frequency photons (arstechnica.com)
		102 points by aquark on Aug 24, 2012 \| 52 comments
20.		Releasing Outside The App Store (mattgemmell.com)
		97 points by joao on Aug 24, 2012 \| 49 comments
21.		Be happy Bike to work. (csharpening.net)
		94 points by l33t_d0nut on Aug 24, 2012 \| 135 comments
22.		How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011) (freshdesk.com)
		90 points by zio99 on Aug 24, 2012 \| 24 comments
23.		Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL and SDL) (github.com/andyhd)
		83 points by Charles__L on Aug 24, 2012 \| 37 comments
24.		Startup Stagnation (getfinch.com)
		82 points by jonemo on Aug 24, 2012 \| 57 comments
25.		Paul Oakenfold crowdsources a beat on beatlab (beatlab.com)
		81 points by jbaudanza on Aug 24, 2012 \| 38 comments
26.		PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB (rsms.me)
		76 points by shinvee on Aug 24, 2012 \| 13 comments
27.		DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system (lwn.net)
		77 points by rohshall on Aug 24, 2012 \| 30 comments
28.		Why Self-Track? The Possibility of Hard-to-Explain Change (quantifiedself.com)
		76 points by harscoat on Aug 24, 2012 \| 41 comments
29.		SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter (kickstarter.com)
		74 points by guiseppecalzone on Aug 24, 2012 \| 35 comments
30.		Octane minus V8 (blog.mozilla.org)
		73 points by mzl on Aug 24, 2012 \| 18 comments
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