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1.		Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5 (thenextweb.com)
		398 points by countessa on Sept 13, 2012 \| 252 comments
2.		Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo (nytimes.com)
		320 points by unfoldedorigami on Sept 13, 2012 \| 120 comments
3.		Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript (dropbox.com)
		290 points by varenc on Sept 13, 2012 \| 193 comments
4.		OSX password script for everyone to know (songz.me)
		227 points by songzme on Sept 13, 2012 \| 90 comments
5.		Ancient flower lives only on two Spanish cliffs, and uses ants to survive (discovermagazine.com)
		220 points by suprgeek on Sept 13, 2012 \| 10 comments
6.		Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’ (thenextweb.com)
		220 points by talhof8 on Sept 13, 2012 \| 102 comments
7.		Google's "Bacon number" search (google.com)
		200 points by nsns on Sept 13, 2012 \| 82 comments
8.		Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs” (unfinishedman.com)
		191 points by cbarnsdale on Sept 13, 2012 \| 145 comments
9.		Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future) (unlimitednovelty.com)
		189 points by saurabh on Sept 13, 2012 \| 125 comments
10.		Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking (arstechnica.com)
		162 points by aspratley on Sept 13, 2012 \| 32 comments
11.		The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end? (justinhileman.info)
		160 points by KuraFire on Sept 13, 2012 \| 92 comments
12.		Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates (andyet.net)
		152 points by adambrault on Sept 13, 2012 \| 87 comments
13.		Will Go be the new go-to programming language? (gigaom.com)
		137 points by mtgx on Sept 13, 2012 \| 183 comments
14.		Why Quora Won't Scale (socialtimes.com)
		129 points by desbest on Sept 13, 2012 \| 77 comments
15.		Show HN: A Handcrafted Web (scrollkit.com)
		131 points by kateray on Sept 13, 2012 \| 82 comments
16.		Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)
		129 points by cwilson on Sept 13, 2012 \| 78 comments
17.		J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime (code.google.com)
		108 points by jamesjyu on Sept 13, 2012 \| 41 comments
18.		Balsamiq 2.2 is here (balsamiq.com)
		105 points by benackles on Sept 13, 2012 \| 37 comments
19.		Hotel-room hacks: Picking the lock (economist.com)
		96 points by ljensen on Sept 13, 2012 \| 69 comments
20.		Show HN: Matches.js -- Powerful Pattern Matching for Javascript (github.com/natefaubion)
		96 points by natefaubion on Sept 13, 2012 \| 20 comments
21.		Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity (indiatimes.com)
		96 points by azarias on Sept 13, 2012 \| 17 comments
22.		How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? (slashdot.org)
		90 points by LVB on Sept 13, 2012 \| 50 comments
23.		How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt (filepicker.io)
		85 points by liyanchang on Sept 13, 2012 \| 30 comments
24.		The Creation of the Unix Operating System (bell-labs.com)
		77 points by evolve2k on Sept 13, 2012 \| 9 comments
25.		Django Best Practices — Updated for 1.4 (lincolnloop.com)
		80 points by superchink on Sept 13, 2012 \| 19 comments
26.		My Madison Ruby Story (marginaldialogue.blogspot.com)
		79 points by jremsikjr on Sept 13, 2012 \| 28 comments
27.		I Haven't Quit Twitter - Twitter Quit Me (shkspr.mobi)
		75 points by edent on Sept 13, 2012 \| 42 comments
28.		Google Glass and the Future of Technology (nytimes.com)
		72 points by dean on Sept 13, 2012 \| 50 comments
29.		Google threatened Acer with Android excommunication (slashgear.com)
		68 points by headShrinker on Sept 13, 2012 \| 62 comments
30.		Ebay's new logo (ebay.com)
		69 points by _kcn8 on Sept 13, 2012 \| 53 comments
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