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1. The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain (wikipedia.org)
483 points by wr1472 on Sept 22, 2012 | 96 comments
2. Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed (slashdot.org)
301 points by cooldeal on Sept 22, 2012 | 229 comments
3. Rethinking Sleep (nytimes.com)
236 points by sew on Sept 22, 2012 | 60 comments
4. Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name (paulbernal.wordpress.com)
218 points by mindstab on Sept 22, 2012 | 156 comments
5. DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber (uber.com)
176 points by japhyr on Sept 22, 2012 | 170 comments
6. How to stop hospitals from killing us (wsj.com)
153 points by bmahmood on Sept 22, 2012 | 96 comments
7. 3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer (marcuswolschon.blogspot.de)
138 points by iamwil on Sept 22, 2012 | 37 comments
8. Thank you Apple (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
129 points by zdw on Sept 22, 2012 | 129 comments
9. Ruby’s magic underscore (po-ru.com)
113 points by Hates_ on Sept 22, 2012 | 34 comments
10. Writing Rules: Advice From The Times on Writing Well (nytimes.com)
100 points by 001sky on Sept 22, 2012 | 19 comments
11. The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay (stamen.com)
98 points by powera on Sept 22, 2012 | 79 comments
12. How Google takes feedback (google.com)
96 points by theone on Sept 22, 2012 | 40 comments
13. The Writing Revolution (theatlantic.com)
91 points by jseliger on Sept 22, 2012 | 15 comments
14. From 0 to cryptography (rosedu.org)
87 points by mariuz on Sept 22, 2012 | 39 comments
15. Stop Using noreply (ryanhoover.me)
85 points by rrhoover on Sept 22, 2012 | 33 comments
16. Has Apple Peaked? (nytimes.com)
82 points by ezequiel-garzon on Sept 22, 2012 | 100 comments
17. Still Too Pricey (barrons.com)
76 points by lmg643 on Sept 22, 2012 | 56 comments
18. On the diminishing marginal utility of Stuff (antipope.org)
72 points by cstross on Sept 22, 2012 | 44 comments
19. To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop (nytimes.com)
63 points by digisth on Sept 22, 2012 | 38 comments
20. State of the Lambda (java.net)
63 points by jondot on Sept 22, 2012 | 43 comments
21. CRIME (imperialviolet.org)
63 points by stalled on Sept 22, 2012 | 15 comments
22. Show HN: AzureFS – I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux (heroku.com)
66 points by aalpb on Sept 22, 2012 | 16 comments
23. Facial recognition will be turned off for Facebook users from Europe (europe-v-facebook.org)
54 points by conductor on Sept 22, 2012 | 11 comments
24. Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice?
52 points by ohmygord on Sept 22, 2012 | 75 comments
25. Apple demands $707 million in additional damages from Samsung (arstechnica.com)
49 points by nsns on Sept 22, 2012 | 67 comments
26. Show HN: HTML5 Bird Flocks Simulation in CoffeeScript (chrisp.gr)
47 points by chris_p on Sept 22, 2012 | 25 comments
27. The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken (thenextweb.com)
44 points by superchink on Sept 22, 2012 | 41 comments
28. Show HN: Web client for WhatsApp (filshmedia.net)
50 points by sgehlich on Sept 22, 2012 | 31 comments
29. 'AOL squatter' takes wraps off new startup, Claco (mercurynews.com)
45 points by cpeterso on Sept 22, 2012 | 17 comments
30. When Will This Low-Innovation Era End? (wired.com)
39 points by jnbiche on Sept 22, 2012 | 51 comments

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