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1.The Apple Reaper (coovtech.com)
288 points by azcoastal on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
2.Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)
279 points by olalonde on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 225 comments [ext]
3.Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo (instagram.com)
230 points by shill on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.Kickstarter vaporware of the day, Lifx edition (reuters.com)
226 points by justincormack on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
5.Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay (rackspace.com)
230 points by melsmo on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
6.German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer (googleusercontent.com)
220 points by _ikke_ on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
7. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github (scribd.com)
213 points by BummerCloud on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
8.Divshot (divshot.com)
207 points by lukethomas on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
9.Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings (yahoo.com)
170 points by thenextcorner on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
10. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan (newscientist.com)
167 points by kisamoto on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
11.Startup idea list [ext]
161 points by duck on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 267 comments [ext]
12.Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open (inburke.com)
156 points by stanleydrew on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
13. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
13.Teller on theft in magic (esquire.com)
156 points by robmil on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: EasyPost - the Stripe for postage (easypost.co)
157 points by jstreebin on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
15.The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology (2011) (bhorowitz.com)
155 points by 001sky on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
16. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.GitHub Launch Page (github.com/blog)
142 points by bpierre on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
17.How To Die With No Regrets (amirkhella.com)
136 points by amirkhella on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
18.App Store Bit Rot (undsoversum.de)
127 points by kronawetter on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
19. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
19.Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today (coursera.org)
124 points by pohl on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
20.Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing (hilarymason.com)
113 points by ColinWright on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
21.This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job (mashable.com)
110 points by allangrant on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
22. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Say Hello to Realtime Collaboration (cssdeck.com)
107 points by binarydreams on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
23.PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal (igorgue.com)
105 points by auston on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
24.Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6 (humblebundle.com)
101 points by vibragiel on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
25. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.Red Herring awards: a scam? (techinasia.com)
84 points by abhimir on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
26.How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool (pandodaily.com)
78 points by protomyth on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
27.Editing text is the opposite of handling exceptions (bosker.wordpress.com)
72 points by ColinWright on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
28.Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept (sandia.gov)
72 points by kposehn on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
29.Rod Brooks Reveals Baxter, Programmable Industrial Robot for the Masses (xconomy.com)
72 points by robertbud1 on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
30.Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance (boundary.com)
70 points by spahl on Sept 18, 2012 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
31. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments

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