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1. Sal Khan responds to critic (washingtonpost.com)
292 points by danso on July 27, 2012 | 154 comments
2. 1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 (writersofthefuture.com)
250 points by joshuahedlund on July 27, 2012 | 141 comments
3. How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP (nikic.github.com)
210 points by maratd on July 27, 2012 | 36 comments
4. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community (reddit.com)
194 points by ryanio on July 27, 2012 | 62 comments
5. Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed (arstechnica.com)
176 points by Cadsby on July 27, 2012 | 109 comments
6. Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem (scripting.com)
175 points by aaron-lebo on July 27, 2012 | 80 comments
7. A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams (npr.org)
177 points by septerr on July 27, 2012 | 144 comments
8. Economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband (gigaom.com)
163 points by iProject on July 27, 2012 | 64 comments
9. How well does Khan Academy teach? (washingtonpost.com)
163 points by ColinWright on July 27, 2012 | 111 comments
10. Go is boring (aeronotix.pl)
137 points by iand on July 27, 2012 | 130 comments
11. Why isn't iTunes shuffle random? (apple.stackexchange.com)
135 points by benihana on July 27, 2012 | 74 comments
12. Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants (go.com)
136 points by ot on July 27, 2012 | 29 comments
13. Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL (sprw.me)
124 points by kiyoto on July 27, 2012 | 65 comments
14. NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid (techcrunch.com)
120 points by rythie on July 27, 2012 | 86 comments
15. BinaryJS, Streaming realtime binary data to your web browser (binaryjs.com)
115 points by ericz on July 27, 2012 | 26 comments
16. Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage (mashable.com)
111 points by frankphilips on July 27, 2012 | 142 comments
17. Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town (techcrunch.com)
101 points by dtran on July 27, 2012 | 47 comments
18. Virtual Incubator to All (pandodaily.com)
100 points by rrbrambley on July 27, 2012 | 40 comments
19. Fogus leaves Relevance and Clojure/core (fogus.me)
94 points by DanielRibeiro on July 27, 2012 | 10 comments
20. IOS Image Tricks (dwellable.com)
90 points by gurgeous on July 27, 2012 | 22 comments
21. Beyond Meat: Fake Meat So Good It Will Freak You Out (slate.com)
88 points by krschultz on July 27, 2012 | 178 comments
22. Show HN: multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays (ggreplayz.com)
86 points by rynop on July 27, 2012 | 58 comments
23. Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
86 points by evo_9 on July 27, 2012 | 36 comments
24. PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines (pandodaily.com)
86 points by garry on July 27, 2012 | 38 comments
25. Why Google makes the perfect ISP (extremetech.com)
82 points by doc4t on July 27, 2012 | 57 comments
26. Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare (gigaom.com)
81 points by alt_ on July 27, 2012 | 53 comments
27. The Humble Music Bundle (humblebundle.com)
74 points by mrud on July 27, 2012 | 39 comments
28. GDrive finally comes to Linux thanks to insynchq.com (insynchq.com)
72 points by justinkelly on July 27, 2012 | 20 comments
29. Transparent plug-in hybrid retrofit for any car (mtsunews.com)
68 points by rocky1138 on July 27, 2012 | 54 comments
30. Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 2 (Backbone.Collection) (dailyjs.com)
66 points by raja on July 27, 2012 | 8 comments

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