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1.Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io)
311 points by mofeeta on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
2.'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live (stripe.com)
254 points by CD1212 on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
3.Ghosts in the rom (nycresistor.com)
246 points by z2amiller on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects (sideprojects.com)
236 points by sideprojectbook on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
5.Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard (statuschart.com)
209 points by kennedysgarage on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
6.Why Ratings Systems Don't Work (goodfil.ms)
196 points by geelen on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.I'm Not Japanese (sachagreif.com)
189 points by sgdesign on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
8.Leap (leapmotion.com)
175 points by aes on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
9.Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor (bbc.co.uk)
162 points by selvan on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
10. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala (techcrunch.com)
157 points by mrspeaker on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
11.Dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim (vim.org)
146 points by sciurus on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
12.Emacs under Clojure (github.com/hraberg)
139 points by artagnon on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.Bill Thurston has died (terrytao.wordpress.com)
138 points by gruseom on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
14.Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off (inc.com)
117 points by timjahn on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
15.CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks (cssfontstack.com)
102 points by kreutz on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
16. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
16.AOL: still providing insanity after all these years (rachelbythebay.com)
99 points by protomyth on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
17.FlipCode is back, after 7 years (flipcode.com)
98 points by gavanwoolery on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
18.Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk) (rashidkpc.github.com)
99 points by kordless on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
19. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
19.Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users (bloomberg.com)
92 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
20.Being Featured on the App Store (anylistapp.com)
91 points by dirtae on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
21.Seven Things I Hate About Agile (assembla.com)
94 points by mpchlets on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD (theregister.co.uk)
91 points by xhrpost on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
23.Parallel Programming for C and C++ Done Right (speakerdeck.com)
90 points by timClicks on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.How To Share an iPhone Screen Live Across the Internet (mgalligan.com)
88 points by indiekid on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
25.The myth of doing “that one thing” (leostartsup.com)
84 points by joeyespo on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
26.Drug Cartels Now Using UAVs (wired.com)
81 points by electic on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
27.Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia (nytimes.com)
83 points by evidenceofllama on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.First employee or co-founder? (jacquesmattheij.com)
69 points by ColinWright on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
29.Arrays in Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)
70 points by paratrooper on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
30.Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) (customerdevlabs.com)
67 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 22, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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