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1. Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others (amazon.com)
602 points by fredoliveira on Oct 22, 2012 | 295 comments
2. Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it (ektomarch.com)
515 points by fiblye on Oct 22, 2012 | 145 comments
3. L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter (bbc.co.uk)
237 points by The_Fox on Oct 22, 2012 | 106 comments
4. The physics of baseball as illustrated by Fox's new 5000 fps camera (illinois.edu)
213 points by jonknee on Oct 22, 2012 | 36 comments
5. The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars (teslamotors.com)
198 points by is74 on Oct 22, 2012 | 133 comments
6. Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup (levchin.com)
194 points by SuperChihuahua on Oct 22, 2012 | 44 comments
7. Mono 3.0 is out (tirania.org)
194 points by octopus on Oct 22, 2012 | 67 comments
8. Makisu - CSS 3D dropdown concept (soulwire.github.com)
187 points by culshaw on Oct 22, 2012 | 54 comments
9. Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot (techcrunch.com)
180 points by leeskye on Oct 22, 2012 | 80 comments
10. Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples (units.it)
170 points by ColinWright on Oct 22, 2012 | 59 comments
11. Introducing the USB Stick of Death (vexillium.org)
165 points by dietcokerules on Oct 22, 2012 | 31 comments
12. Git 1.8.0 (raw.github.com)
159 points by _riwy on Oct 22, 2012 | 53 comments
13. Ancestry.com Acquired for $1.6 Billion (theatlanticwire.com)
153 points by dsr12 on Oct 22, 2012 | 120 comments
14. Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably (quotab.ly)
142 points by jordanmessina on Oct 22, 2012 | 75 comments
15. Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT (arstechnica.com)
129 points by co_pl_te on Oct 22, 2012 | 27 comments
16. Project Cybersyn, a 1971-73 Chilean Experiment in Computer-Assisted Economy (damninteresting.com)
129 points by patrickk on Oct 22, 2012 | 65 comments
17. Google bot delays executing JavaScript for days (ifixit.com)
128 points by dbeardsl on Oct 22, 2012 | 37 comments
18. My key takeaways from Y Combinator’s Startup School 2012 (nowaternomoon.com)
124 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 22, 2012 | 21 comments
19. E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life (androidos.in)
127 points by arpit on Oct 22, 2012 | 88 comments
20. AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others (heroku.com)
128 points by elliottcarlson on Oct 22, 2012 | 117 comments
21. JRuby 1.7.0. Released (jruby.org)
124 points by sheff on Oct 22, 2012 | 50 comments
22. Running Ubuntu off an SDCard on the new ARM Chromebook (plus.google.com)
114 points by georgemcbay on Oct 22, 2012 | 22 comments
23. Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io (put.io)
102 points by khet on Oct 22, 2012 | 70 comments
24. How to Name your Company (judegomila.com)
98 points by judegomila on Oct 22, 2012 | 73 comments
25. I Just Paid Facebook $7 (johnnystartup.com)
93 points by phprida on Oct 22, 2012 | 55 comments
26. Startup School And Survivor Bias (jfornear.co)
92 points by bdb on Oct 22, 2012 | 43 comments
27. Engage by Mixpanel (mixpanel.com)
91 points by frankdenbow on Oct 22, 2012 | 23 comments
28. The Most Memorable Quotes (I Could Capture) From Startup School 2012 (jasonshen.com)
82 points by jasonshen on Oct 22, 2012 | 15 comments
29. Icelanders vote to base new constitution on crowdsourced draft (gigaom.com)
78 points by mtgx on Oct 22, 2012 | 31 comments
30. Sending a Weather Balloon to Space (hartleybrody.com)
74 points by hartleybrody on Oct 22, 2012 | 27 comments

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