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1.		StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames (codeofhonor.com)
		435 points by phenylene on Sept 27, 2012 \| 87 comments
2.		NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface (nasa.gov)
		373 points by Sodaware on Sept 27, 2012 \| 81 comments
3.		Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta) (valvesoftware.com)
		328 points by phenylene on Sept 27, 2012 \| 147 comments
4.		How to build a windmill (jacquesmattheij.com)
		300 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 27, 2012 \| 53 comments
5.		“iCloud Backup” (marco.org)
		203 points by jordw on Sept 27, 2012 \| 82 comments
6.		What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier (bufferapp.com)
		189 points by LeonW on Sept 27, 2012 \| 80 comments
7.		How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat (washingtonpost.com)
		185 points by prajjwal on Sept 27, 2012 \| 50 comments
8.		Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) (schneier.com)
		174 points by Jach on Sept 27, 2012 \| 93 comments
9.		Linux TCP/IP Tuning (lognormal.com)
		162 points by bluesmoon on Sept 27, 2012 \| 31 comments
10.		Google Search Referrers Disappear In iOS 6 (searchengineland.com)
		153 points by Shooti on Sept 27, 2012 \| 48 comments
11.		Facebook Gifts (facebook.com)
		151 points by tksohishi on Sept 27, 2012 \| 112 comments
12.		US Military Classifies Wikileaks As 'Enemy Of The United States' (techdirt.com)
		147 points by mcantelon on Sept 27, 2012 \| 168 comments
13.		Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind (alexkrupp.typepad.com)
		134 points by Alex3917 on Sept 27, 2012 \| 67 comments
14.		Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month) (packtpub.com)
		133 points by jontas on Sept 27, 2012 \| 44 comments
15.		How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office?
		131 points by bugsbunnyak on Sept 27, 2012 \| 13 comments
16.		Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” (domainnamewire.com)
		131 points by xhrpost on Sept 27, 2012 \| 73 comments
17.		MMO xkcd WebSockets fixed by PubNub (pubnub.com)
		123 points by pubnub on Sept 27, 2012 \| 52 comments
18.		Hackerface: Rapportive for HN (hackerface.com)
		122 points by harscoat on Sept 27, 2012 \| 63 comments
19.		PostgreSQL Database Modeler (pgmodeler.com.br)
		121 points by motter on Sept 27, 2012 \| 38 comments
20.		Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing hardware (kickstarter.com)
		110 points by JonasH on Sept 27, 2012 \| 38 comments
21.		Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead (venturebeat.com)
		105 points by bmillipede on Sept 27, 2012 \| 56 comments
22.		NFC enabled business cards (moo.com)
		103 points by EwanToo on Sept 27, 2012 \| 56 comments
23.		iOS 6 App Store is a disaster for developers (develop-online.net)
		102 points by novaleaf on Sept 27, 2012 \| 58 comments
24.		App.net developer incentive programme (app.net)
		97 points by anu_gupta on Sept 27, 2012 \| 45 comments
25.		Bitcoin Foundation Launches to ‘Standardize, Protect and Promote’ Bitcoin (betabeat.com)
		89 points by nitashatiku on Sept 27, 2012 \| 27 comments
26.		How the Internet ruined San Francisco (1999) (salon.com)
		84 points by mshafrir on Sept 27, 2012 \| 128 comments
27.		Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate (adobe.com)
		84 points by jjguy on Sept 27, 2012 \| 13 comments
28.		We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris (ieee.org)
		80 points by vectorbunny on Sept 27, 2012 \| 80 comments
29.		New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (nbcnews.com)
		75 points by 8ig8 on Sept 27, 2012 \| 21 comments
30.		How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome (tessrinearson.com)
		72 points by liberatus on Sept 27, 2012 \| 76 comments
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