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1.Lying on your resume (steveblank.com)
460 points by ridruejo on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
2.Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco (troyhunt.com)
352 points by troyhunt on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
3.Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them. (seanoliver.me)
337 points by seanoliver on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 227 comments [ext]
4. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
4.Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit [ext]
317 points by rightclick on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
5.Chaos Monkey released into the wild (netflix.com)
235 points by timf on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
6.Codecademy now has Python lessons (codecademy.com)
215 points by arjunblj on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.ASCII Google Streetview (tllabs.io)
200 points by divy on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
8.Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS (github.com/nothingmagical)
179 points by jamesjyu on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API (getworkdonemusic.com)
178 points by ryanio on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has an underground ocean (nasa.gov)
178 points by rblion on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
11.Live Streaming in Rails 4.0 (tenderlovemaking.com)
141 points by tenderlove on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
12.Localtunnel: Show localhost to the rest of the world (progrium.com)
135 points by rohshall on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
13. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
13.Google Talk for Developers (developers.google.com)
130 points by ovechtrick on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
14.NewsBlur (YC S12) Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics (techcrunch.com)
131 points by conesus on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
15.The Heretic - the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. (themorningnews.org)
126 points by username3 on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
16. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths (hanselman.com)
126 points by shawndumas on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
17.Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production (reuters.com)
124 points by geogra4 on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
18.The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers (nymag.com)
117 points by shrikant on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
19. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
19.Chrome treats DELETE requests as GET and caches them (code.google.com)
108 points by eranation on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
20.And then the music stopped (37signals.com)
108 points by scottshea on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works (gridster.net)
106 points by dmarinoc on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
22. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
22.Every iPhone Prototype Apple Ever Made Before They Released The First iPhone (cultofmac.com)
106 points by playhard on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
23.Moog Google Doodle open sourced (code.google.com)
104 points by anigbrowl on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
24.Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes (nytimes.com)
99 points by kevinalexbrown on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
25. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
25.Amicus (YC S12) Uses Facebook To Mobilize Volunteers for Nonprofits (techcrunch.com)
101 points by sethbannon on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
26.Does category theory make you a better programmer? (debasishg.blogspot.nl)
93 points by jamesbritt on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
27.Try iOS: iPhone App Development Course (kickstarter.com)
85 points by wmboy on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
28. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
28.Binary search is a pathological case for caches (pvk.ca)
80 points by kinetik on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
29.The Boston Globe gets a look at a DB of every bomb the US has ever dropped (bostonglobe.com)
81 points by eob on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
30.Hangouts now available in Gmail, Google+ account not required (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
80 points by patrickaljord on July 30, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
31. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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