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31. Tapbots: Don't Panic (tapbots.com)
75 points by googletron on Aug 17, 2012 | 18 comments
32. Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services (eyetap.blogspot.com)
76 points by kefs on Aug 17, 2012 | 27 comments
33. PHP 5.4.6 released (php.net)
67 points by ck2 on Aug 17, 2012 | 15 comments
34. How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree (theatlantic.com)
64 points by tokenadult on Aug 17, 2012 | 64 comments
35. Backlift beta now open, featuring auth, validation and auto refresh (backlift.com)
64 points by colevscode on Aug 17, 2012 | 13 comments
36. Markupwand (YC S12) Takes The Pain Out Of Translating Photoshop Files To HTML (techcrunch.com)
64 points by kennethologist on Aug 17, 2012 | 17 comments
37. Basics of Memory Addresses in C (denniskubes.com)
62 points by denniskubes on Aug 17, 2012 | 16 comments
38. Onity's plan to mitigate hotel lock hack (daeken.com)
62 points by daeken on Aug 17, 2012 | 16 comments
39. Twitter Has the "Now Syndrome" (danshipper.com)
58 points by dshipper on Aug 17, 2012 | 27 comments
40. Which USA do you work in? (blogmaverick.com)
55 points by taytus on Aug 17, 2012 | 28 comments
41. Confirmed: OnLive’s assets sold to another company (venturebeat.com)
53 points by jconley on Aug 17, 2012 | 7 comments
42. Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button (developers.google.com)
55 points by wr1472 on Aug 17, 2012 | 24 comments
43. Why isn’t Twitter charging for their API? (dustyreagan.com)
52 points by dustyreagan on Aug 17, 2012 | 26 comments
44. Filepicker.io (YC S12) lets content flow without worrying about bandwidth (gigaom.com)
52 points by tagx on Aug 17, 2012 | 22 comments
45. Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) (bell-labs.com)
51 points by shawndumas on Aug 17, 2012 | 53 comments
46. The secret to success in the arts (felixsalmon.com)
49 points by smokel on Aug 17, 2012 | 37 comments
47. Sorry Dan Shipper and other coders, you are wrong. (crranky.com)
48 points by zipop on Aug 17, 2012 | 58 comments
48. Apple's aesthetic dichotomy (2011) (madebymany.com)
47 points by jaybol on Aug 17, 2012 | 30 comments
49. D-Wave quantum computer solves protein folding problem (nature.com)
46 points by rabidsnail on Aug 17, 2012 | 16 comments
50. HD Trade Services (YC S12) Lets Small Logistics Providers Track Shipments (techcrunch.com)
46 points by dsugarman on Aug 17, 2012 | 2 comments
51. Principles of Distributed Computing (lecture collection) (ethz.ch)
44 points by buro9 on Aug 17, 2012 | 3 comments
52. Funders Club raises over $1M for startups online — including itself (venturebeat.com)
43 points by aston on Aug 17, 2012 | 13 comments
53. What we built with Twitter that now won't fly (sharingstate.com)
41 points by state on Aug 17, 2012 | 16 comments
54. The rise of high frequency trading - graphic animation (nanex.net)
42 points by usedtolurk on Aug 17, 2012 | 22 comments
55. Collections (YC S12) syncs Facebook photos, Instagram and Google Docs (thenextweb.com)
41 points by jordanlee on Aug 17, 2012 | 9 comments
56. Principle Component Analysis (datanitro.com)
42 points by karamazov on Aug 17, 2012 | 20 comments
57. IOS SMS Spoofing (pod2g-ios.blogspot.co.uk)
39 points by eyevariety on Aug 17, 2012 | 11 comments
58. Former NASA Flight Engineer blogs about Columbia Disaster (waynehale.wordpress.com)
40 points by scottshea on Aug 17, 2012 | 4 comments
59. SpinPunch (YC S12) Aims To Build Faster, Prettier HTML5 Games (techcrunch.com)
38 points by irunbackwards on Aug 17, 2012 | 18 comments
60. Cloud Haskell on Raspberry Pi (alenribic.com)
39 points by dons on Aug 17, 2012 | 8 comments

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