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1. Dear Programmer, I have an idea (mkrecny.com)
325 points by mkrecny on Sept 11, 2012 | 134 comments
2. Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard (techcrunch.com)
313 points by skdoo on Sept 11, 2012 | 167 comments
3. The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle (kickstarter.com)
279 points by zachallia on Sept 11, 2012 | 164 comments
4. The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral. (thexx.info)
274 points by eliaskg on Sept 11, 2012 | 80 comments
5. Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5 (techcrunch.com)
225 points by twapi on Sept 11, 2012 | 142 comments
6. Java's Cover (April 2001) (paulgraham.com)
185 points by cdi on Sept 11, 2012 | 180 comments
7. Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth (wired.com)
173 points by nicholassmith on Sept 11, 2012 | 40 comments
8. 9to5 (instapaper.com)
167 points by NaOH on Sept 11, 2012 | 62 comments
9. It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard (hacks.mozilla.org)
167 points by nullc on Sept 11, 2012 | 65 comments
10. "Life Expectancy" Doesn't Measure How Long You're Expected To Live (edwardmarks.com)
155 points by elmarks on Sept 11, 2012 | 88 comments
11. "Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year (arstechnica.com)
150 points by mtgx on Sept 11, 2012 | 96 comments
12. Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go (dustin.github.com)
142 points by mgrouchy on Sept 11, 2012 | 34 comments
13. 2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads (macperformanceguide.com)
137 points by ingve on Sept 11, 2012 | 95 comments
14. Parse Launches Cloud Code to Run Custom Code for Your App (parse.com)
144 points by tikhon on Sept 11, 2012 | 40 comments
15. 9/11 tragedy pager intercepts (wikileaks.org)
135 points by tchalla on Sept 11, 2012 | 144 comments
16. App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco (appacademy.io)
131 points by ruggeri on Sept 11, 2012 | 69 comments
17. Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A (thenextweb.com)
126 points by martokus on Sept 11, 2012 | 114 comments
18. Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features (stripe.com)
112 points by noinput on Sept 11, 2012 | 53 comments
19. Canada designs new visa for immigrant entrepreneurs (theglobeandmail.com)
110 points by imack on Sept 11, 2012 | 42 comments
20. It's a London underground map and a working circuit board. (designboom.com)
107 points by jacobsimeon on Sept 11, 2012 | 8 comments
21. Why developers are allergic to job opportunities (coderwall.com)
106 points by bitsweet on Sept 11, 2012 | 99 comments
22. GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables (godaddy.com)
100 points by jakeludington on Sept 11, 2012 | 90 comments
23. Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator (vanityfair.com)
100 points by bjonathan on Sept 11, 2012 | 12 comments
24. We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say (vice.com)
95 points by ca98am79 on Sept 11, 2012 | 58 comments
25. Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software. (sleepio.com)
94 points by phames on Sept 11, 2012 | 69 comments
26. Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license (garagegames.com)
90 points by Zolomon on Sept 11, 2012 | 34 comments
27. Migrating from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic (basho.com)
90 points by tsantero on Sept 11, 2012 | 5 comments
28. Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth (bbc.com)
83 points by selvan on Sept 11, 2012 | 23 comments
29. Helveticards - 100% CSS playing cards (zachwaugh.com)
76 points by duck on Sept 11, 2012 | 42 comments
30. MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in QS world university rankings (topuniversities.com)
70 points by jordn on Sept 11, 2012 | 51 comments

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