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1.		A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious (osnews.com)
		418 points by thomholwerda on Aug 26, 2012 \| 426 comments
2.		The coming civil war over general purpose computing (boingboing.net)
		279 points by Create on Aug 26, 2012 \| 98 comments
3.		Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication (dropbox.com)
		243 points by Xyzodiac on Aug 26, 2012 \| 74 comments
4.		Best Open Python Books (revolunet.com)
		229 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 26, 2012 \| 31 comments
5.		Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework (vanilla-js.com)
		208 points by elliotlai on Aug 26, 2012 \| 125 comments
6.		Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions (techcrunch.com)
		195 points by nreece on Aug 26, 2012 \| 69 comments
7.		My Evil Undead Credit Card (uncrunched.com)
		181 points by ryangilbert on Aug 26, 2012 \| 129 comments
8.		TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked. (boingboing.net)
		151 points by rst on Aug 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
9.		An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism (nytimes.com)
		140 points by tokenadult on Aug 26, 2012 \| 102 comments
10.		Growth Hacking 101: Your First 500,000 Users (slideshare.net)
		131 points by taigeair on Aug 26, 2012 \| 12 comments
11.		Flat lens offers a perfect image (seas.harvard.edu)
		128 points by co_pl_te on Aug 26, 2012 \| 30 comments
12.		Ask HN: How to learn Backbone
		125 points by robbiet480 on Aug 26, 2012 \| 33 comments
13.		New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild. (fireeye.com)
		122 points by grncdr on Aug 26, 2012 \| 68 comments
14.		Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer (henrikwarne.com)
		116 points by henrik_w on Aug 26, 2012 \| 76 comments
15.		Where the fuck is my Ari Gold? (youell.com)
		109 points by softbuilder on Aug 26, 2012 \| 67 comments
16.		Dynamic Programming versus Memoization (racket-lang.org)
		103 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Aug 26, 2012 \| 26 comments
17.		When My Business Failed (hbr.org)
		101 points by harpalux on Aug 26, 2012 \| 36 comments
18.		Buzz Aldrin’s Official Statement on the Passing of Neil Armstrong (buzzaldrin.com)
		96 points by neurotech1 on Aug 26, 2012 \| 5 comments
19.		Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog (wired.com)
		96 points by webwanderings on Aug 26, 2012 \| 59 comments
20.		Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything (gigaom.com)
		86 points by sandipc on Aug 26, 2012 \| 36 comments
21.		Deadbook, the Long-term Facebook (jacquesmattheij.com)
		82 points by ColinWright on Aug 26, 2012 \| 54 comments
22.		How Long Do You Want to Live? (nytimes.com)
		77 points by rosser on Aug 26, 2012 \| 99 comments
23.		School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough (nytimes.com)
		75 points by tokenadult on Aug 26, 2012 \| 33 comments
24.		Practicing Programming (sites.google.com)
		70 points by krat0sprakhar on Aug 26, 2012 \| 25 comments
25.		Shell script Mac Apps (mathiasbynens.be)
		69 points by snihalani on Aug 26, 2012 \| 15 comments
26.		Pricing Your Product: it Doesn’t Have to Be so Complicated (joel.is)
		68 points by iSimone on Aug 26, 2012 \| 25 comments
27.		Do Plants Think? (scientificamerican.com)
		68 points by rosser on Aug 26, 2012 \| 51 comments
28.		Charter the Seasteader I (seasteading.org)
		64 points by pelle on Aug 26, 2012 \| 37 comments
29.		The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum (venturebeat.com)
		64 points by timmyd on Aug 26, 2012 \| 17 comments
30.		Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties (nytimes.com)
		63 points by jamesbritt on Aug 26, 2012 \| 44 comments
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