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1. Prime number patterns (jasondavies.com)
359 points by dmarinoc on July 17, 2012 | 100 comments
2. Steam'd Penguins (valvesoftware.com)
333 points by mwilcox on July 17, 2012 | 162 comments
3. Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals (w3.org)
277 points by cgbystrom on July 17, 2012 | 136 comments
4. Google+ grows 43% in June (plus.google.com)
262 points by vibrunazo on July 17, 2012 | 183 comments
5. Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping (skype-open-source.blogspot.ch)
253 points by smartial_arts on July 17, 2012 | 102 comments
6. The Latest On Intelligence (danielwillingham.com)
218 points by danielford on July 17, 2012 | 163 comments
7. Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again (dearmarissamayer.com)
218 points by andrewudell on July 17, 2012 | 77 comments
8. 12 new universities join Coursera (coursera.org)
207 points by vibrunazo on July 17, 2012 | 100 comments
9. How I converted a software thief into a customer (blurity.com)
176 points by tghw on July 17, 2012 | 84 comments
10. Twitter crashes itself with commas (opera.com)
167 points by MatthewPhillips on July 17, 2012 | 111 comments
11. Show HN: Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire. (scoutzie.com)
158 points by kirillzubovsky on July 17, 2012 | 86 comments
12. NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate (wired.com)
155 points by lnguyen on July 17, 2012 | 52 comments
13. Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind (extremetech.com)
135 points by doc4t on July 17, 2012 | 33 comments
14. Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything (heroku.com)
134 points by lstoll on July 17, 2012 | 38 comments
15. R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012 (wired.com)
128 points by tokenadult on July 17, 2012 | 29 comments
16. Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M (allthingsd.com)
124 points by Straubiz on July 17, 2012 | 56 comments
17. Torchlight art assets stolen, used in iOS game Armed Heroes (geek.com)
120 points by ukdm on July 17, 2012 | 74 comments
18. Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day (blockr.me)
118 points by jsm on July 17, 2012 | 96 comments
19. Help this man decipher his cool creative code. (dropbox.com)
109 points by crisnoble on July 17, 2012 | 36 comments
20. Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter (cliffdailey.posterous.com)
105 points by cliffdailey on July 17, 2012 | 23 comments
21. Raspberry Pi production grows, $35 Linux computer now available in bulk (arstechnica.com)
103 points by shawndumas on July 17, 2012 | 64 comments
22. RedPhone is now Open Source (whispersys.com)
99 points by dpeck on July 17, 2012 | 21 comments
23. PayPal Acquires card.io (thepaypalblog.com)
91 points by v33ra on July 17, 2012 | 54 comments
24. Mozilla Firefox 14.01 release notes... (mozilla.org)
85 points by 01Michael10 on July 17, 2012 | 43 comments
25. The agony of feeling no pain (bbc.co.uk)
80 points by akandiah on July 17, 2012 | 18 comments
26. Learning to Love JavaScript (google.com)
81 points by luzon19 on July 17, 2012 | 5 comments
27. Finding the mystery man behind FunnyJunk (arstechnica.com)
74 points by iProject on July 17, 2012 | 16 comments
28. Graphic: Mexican drug cartels’ spreading influence (nationalpost.com)
73 points by holychiz on July 17, 2012 | 37 comments
29. Online course from the creator of Scala, starting this September (coursera.org)
74 points by pedro-pinto on July 17, 2012 | 13 comments
30. Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999 (allthingsd.com)
74 points by azazo on July 17, 2012 | 35 comments

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