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1. What it’s like to work for Stripe (alexmaccaw.com)
285 points by relation on Aug 28, 2012 | 57 comments
2. Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds (authy.com)
240 points by danielpal on Aug 28, 2012 | 106 comments
3. How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat (arstechnica.com)
240 points by laxk on Aug 28, 2012 | 141 comments
4. Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing (notdot.net)
234 points by moobirubi on Aug 28, 2012 | 25 comments
5. Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database (youtube.com)
229 points by noidi on Aug 28, 2012 | 90 comments
6. Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News (slate.com)
220 points by bookwormAT on Aug 28, 2012 | 222 comments
7. The Worst Argument In The World (lesswrong.com)
212 points by jmillikin on Aug 28, 2012 | 143 comments
8. A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong (aei-ideas.org)
203 points by queensnake on Aug 28, 2012 | 42 comments
9. PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon (amazon.com)
197 points by neya on Aug 28, 2012 | 85 comments
10. Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it (venturevillage.eu)
195 points by adamfletcher on Aug 28, 2012 | 50 comments
11. Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak (extremetech.com)
188 points by mrsebastian on Aug 28, 2012 | 183 comments
12. HBO No Go (avc.com)
181 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2012 | 96 comments
13. The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups (nickoneill.com)
159 points by mikeknoop on Aug 28, 2012 | 47 comments
14. Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture
151 points by bitcartel on Aug 28, 2012 | 75 comments
15. Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace (mailgun.net)
153 points by twakefield on Aug 28, 2012 | 62 comments
16. Usenet – what have you become? (90percentofeverything.com)
129 points by harrybr on Aug 28, 2012 | 116 comments
17. Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git (github.com/artagnon)
115 points by artagnon on Aug 28, 2012 | 46 comments
18. Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming (arstechnica.com)
118 points by shawndumas on Aug 28, 2012 | 52 comments
19. “Growth Hacking” is BS (layeredthoughts.com)
105 points by Jake232 on Aug 28, 2012 | 53 comments
20. Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
104 points by paraschopra on Aug 28, 2012 | 42 comments
21. Poor man's IFTTT in 3 lines of code (lagentz.com)
101 points by fdorfbauer on Aug 28, 2012 | 33 comments
22. Yes, India is a police state - Christopher Soghoian (indiatimes.com)
93 points by kshatrea on Aug 28, 2012 | 93 comments
23. 1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites (theregister.co.uk)
89 points by j_col on Aug 28, 2012 | 35 comments
24. Break Apart Your Backbone.js Render Methods (ianstormtaylor.com)
87 points by ianstormtaylor on Aug 28, 2012 | 17 comments
25. Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician (techdirt.com)
87 points by mtgx on Aug 28, 2012 | 38 comments
26. Norway Has Advice For Libya (npr.org)
84 points by patrickk on Aug 28, 2012 | 20 comments
27. This is not an image. It's an HTML table. (discountgeni.us)
83 points by discountgenius on Aug 28, 2012 | 63 comments
28. PostgreSQL 9.2 RC1 released (postgresql.org)
80 points by pythonist on Aug 28, 2012 | 20 comments
29. IBM creating pocket-sized Watson in $16 billion sales push (kurzweilai.net)
78 points by robdoherty2 on Aug 28, 2012 | 35 comments
30. AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details (techreport.com)
77 points by geoffgasior on Aug 28, 2012 | 29 comments

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