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1. Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (nasa.gov)
646 points by ColinWright on July 3, 2012 | 127 comments
2. Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant (vanityfair.com)
347 points by 127001brewer on July 3, 2012 | 355 comments
3. Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself (thenextweb.com)
330 points by andymboyle on July 3, 2012 | 209 comments
4. Apple ignores bug report (phoboslab.org)
318 points by phoboslab on July 3, 2012 | 188 comments
5. "Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea (bbc.co.uk)
254 points by ColinWright on July 3, 2012 | 34 comments
6. Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search (productforums.google.com)
240 points by javajosh on July 3, 2012 | 109 comments
7. Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown (torrentfreak.com)
217 points by rkudeshi on July 3, 2012 | 88 comments
8. Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help
184 points by BjornW on July 3, 2012 | 23 comments
9. Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible (cnet.com)
175 points by wyclif on July 3, 2012 | 111 comments
10. Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System (titanous.com)
170 points by Titanous on July 3, 2012 | 34 comments
11. European Court: Used software licenses may be resold. (translate.google.com)
160 points by kleiba on July 3, 2012 | 70 comments
12. MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine? (ingoschramm.tumblr.com)
151 points by ingoschramm on July 3, 2012 | 45 comments
13. Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English (tldrlegal.com)
147 points by sajithw on July 3, 2012 | 55 comments
14. Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero (nytimes.com)
140 points by erickhill on July 3, 2012 | 61 comments
15. PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies (technologyreview.com)
132 points by Anon84 on July 3, 2012 | 32 comments
16. 40+ voice searches thrown at Google on Jelly Bean (plus.google.com)
132 points by bane on July 3, 2012 | 44 comments
17. Google Service Drops Support for Opera (planetbotch.blogspot.no)
130 points by telemachos on July 3, 2012 | 99 comments
18. Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini... (techcrunch.com)
125 points by mjfern on July 3, 2012 | 81 comments
19. Twitter Loses 'Occupy Wall Street' Case, Forced To Hand Over User Info (talkingpointsmemo.com)
121 points by blatherard on July 3, 2012 | 66 comments
20. CERN scientists to announce proof of Higgs boson found (phys.org)
119 points by merraksh on July 3, 2012 | 27 comments
21. Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East (amazon.com)
118 points by rdl on July 3, 2012 | 78 comments
22. Golang at CloudFlare (cloudflare.com)
112 points by jgrahamc on July 3, 2012 | 68 comments
23. Parsing regular expressions with recursive descent (might.net)
84 points by joeyespo on July 3, 2012 | 16 comments
24. Visual Studio 2012 will build apps that can run on XP (msdn.com)
82 points by ryanmolden on July 3, 2012 | 20 comments
25. Hetzner mail to customers: 1 megawatt more power due to leap second
82 points by Uchikoma on July 3, 2012 | 26 comments
26. Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science (mashable.com)
80 points by benigeri on July 3, 2012 | 65 comments
27. Build a Robot Overlord Using Node.js, Twilio, and Arduino (twilio.com)
75 points by jonmarkgo on July 3, 2012 | 24 comments
28. Google joins Samsung in patent dispute with Apple (bgr.com)
70 points by arpit on July 3, 2012 | 56 comments
29. Steve Jobs The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don’t tell anyone, okay? (cringely.com)
68 points by Toshio on July 3, 2012 | 33 comments
30. Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux (kotaku.com)
65 points by evo_9 on July 3, 2012 | 57 comments

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