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1. Subtle Patterns (subtlepatterns.com)
408 points by benologist on Sept 26, 2012 | 49 comments
2. A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD (theatlantic.com)
288 points by iamwil on Sept 26, 2012 | 20 comments
3. Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming (winningraceconditions.blogspot.com)
243 points by pcwalton on Sept 26, 2012 | 181 comments
4. MMO in loving tribute to xkcd-1110 (n01se.net)
204 points by wooby on Sept 26, 2012 | 61 comments
5. Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer (formlabs.com)
191 points by samwillis on Sept 26, 2012 | 111 comments
6. Mathematics at Google (research.google.com)
188 points by PierreMage on Sept 26, 2012 | 50 comments
7. Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps (googleblog.blogspot.com)
183 points by mgdiaz on Sept 26, 2012 | 44 comments
8. OStatus: like Twitter, but open (chrismdp.com)
185 points by chrismdp on Sept 26, 2012 | 124 comments
9. Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993) (webhistory.org)
169 points by wamatt on Sept 26, 2012 | 62 comments
10. Light Table - Embracing Abstraction (chris-granger.com)
163 points by bpierre on Sept 26, 2012 | 74 comments
11. German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters (crackajack.de)
137 points by fgribreau on Sept 26, 2012 | 47 comments
12. Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx (highscalability.com)
131 points by diego on Sept 26, 2012 | 91 comments
13. Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft (thenextweb.com)
132 points by mtgx on Sept 26, 2012 | 168 comments
14. Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes? (nytimes.com)
129 points by timr on Sept 26, 2012 | 53 comments
15. Twilio’s Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API (techcrunch.com)
137 points by playhard on Sept 26, 2012 | 30 comments
16. French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push (computerworlduk.com)
120 points by EdwardQ on Sept 26, 2012 | 55 comments
17. Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days (wired.com)
107 points by mayop100 on Sept 26, 2012 | 67 comments
18. As We May Think (1945) (theatlantic.com)
106 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 26, 2012 | 34 comments
19. Why Bloom filters work the way they do (michaelnielsen.org)
95 points by michael_nielsen on Sept 26, 2012 | 7 comments
20. Wizard for Mac - a tool for statistics and data analysis (evanmiller.org)
92 points by harper on Sept 26, 2012 | 34 comments
21. Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (2005) (uni-mannheim.de)
86 points by yarapavan on Sept 26, 2012 | 51 comments
22. Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners (wired.com)
90 points by vectorbunny on Sept 26, 2012 | 44 comments
23. The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day (bufferapp.com)
87 points by mikesun on Sept 26, 2012 | 41 comments
24. Google Drive SDK (developers.google.com)
86 points by valhallarecords on Sept 26, 2012 | 37 comments
25. Python is doing just fine (data.geek.nz)
84 points by timClicks on Sept 26, 2012 | 85 comments
26. Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1 (thenextweb.com)
84 points by cooldeal on Sept 26, 2012 | 51 comments
27. Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax) (github.com/rails)
82 points by timf on Sept 26, 2012 | 52 comments
28. Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III (engadget.com)
74 points by ashishgandhi on Sept 26, 2012 | 40 comments
29. Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth (venturebeat.com)
71 points by Avalaxy on Sept 26, 2012 | 57 comments
30. Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says (wired.com)
70 points by yk on Sept 26, 2012 | 50 comments

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