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1. Chrome DevTools could do that? (igvita.com)
514 points by lysol on Oct 4, 2012 | 74 comments
2. Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50? (dadgum.com)
414 points by rw140 on Oct 4, 2012 | 242 comments
3. An Update from Elon Musk (teslamotors.com)
380 points by JGM564 on Oct 4, 2012 | 116 comments
4. Software architecture cheat sheet (gorban.org)
287 points by grayprog on Oct 4, 2012 | 35 comments
5. “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer (arstechnica.com)
242 points by chinmoy on Oct 4, 2012 | 130 comments
6. Mona Lisa in pure CSS (codepen.io)
240 points by jmduke on Oct 4, 2012 | 88 comments
7. Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009) (mail-archive.com)
233 points by pushingbits on Oct 4, 2012 | 83 comments
8. LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster (highscalability.com)
204 points by turar on Oct 4, 2012 | 136 comments
9. The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country (owened.co.nz)
174 points by owenw on Oct 4, 2012 | 90 comments
10. Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users (facebook.com)
158 points by bjonathan on Oct 4, 2012 | 138 comments
11. Todon't (codinghorror.com)
157 points by RossM on Oct 4, 2012 | 80 comments
12. Show HN: Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game (artillery.com)
153 points by statico on Oct 4, 2012 | 71 comments
13. Please Don't Kill Feedburner (pleasedontkillfeedburner.com)
129 points by bjonathan on Oct 4, 2012 | 54 comments
14. Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking (fayr.am)
126 points by timf on Oct 4, 2012 | 110 comments
15. Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes (thenextweb.com)
123 points by neya on Oct 4, 2012 | 77 comments
16. [flagged] Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser' (wired.com)
120 points by rsingel on Oct 4, 2012 | 86 comments
17. The Code Side Of Color (smashingmagazine.com)
115 points by mmackh on Oct 4, 2012 | 39 comments
18. Homomorphic encryption: Compute with data you cannot read (americanscientist.org)
105 points by friism on Oct 4, 2012 | 16 comments
19. The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing (technologyreview.com)
103 points by iProject on Oct 4, 2012 | 61 comments
20. In India, engineering students outsource their academic projects (expressindia.com)
103 points by kamaal on Oct 4, 2012 | 83 comments
21. How to Sniff Out Online Fakers (gigaom.com)
101 points by brandonb on Oct 4, 2012 | 47 comments
22. Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM (dropbox.com)
91 points by frsandstone on Oct 4, 2012 | 34 comments
23. Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google (theatlantic.com)
91 points by susanhi on Oct 4, 2012 | 56 comments
24. Rust 0.4 call for testing (mail.mozilla.org)
88 points by stalled on Oct 4, 2012 | 14 comments
25. Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards (vr-zone.com)
86 points by SlimHop on Oct 4, 2012 | 15 comments
26. Simple Helper to Extract Values from a String (laktek.com)
83 points by laktek on Oct 4, 2012 | 48 comments
27. Perfect Audience (YC S11) Makes Facebook Retargeting Easy, Raises $1.1M (techcrunch.com)
70 points by brandnewlow on Oct 4, 2012 | 23 comments
28. Visualizing Tolkien (5013.es)
70 points by josem on Oct 4, 2012 | 54 comments
29. HP CEO: We’re screwed (for the next few years) (arstechnica.com)
66 points by zoowar on Oct 4, 2012 | 30 comments
30. So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users? (21times.org)
66 points by japhyr on Oct 4, 2012 | 54 comments

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