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1.Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987 (nwsource.com)
320 points by cleverjake on Aug 23, 2012 | 231 comments
2.The White House just open sourced their first Github repo (github.com/whitehouse)
314 points by maxogden on Aug 23, 2012 | 121 comments
3.How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life (stoicjesterstudios.com)
290 points by thestoicjester on Aug 23, 2012 | 91 comments
4.John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (uw.edu)
271 points by gb on Aug 23, 2012 | 71 comments
5.A Faster Facebook for iOS (fb.com)
273 points by adamjernst on Aug 23, 2012 | 177 comments
6.Black Widow (dcurt.is)
216 points by bradgessler on Aug 23, 2012 | 51 comments
7.Why you should not be displaying relative dates. (aaronparecki.com)
213 points by caseorganic on Aug 23, 2012 | 155 comments
8.Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr (marco.org)
182 points by rsobers on Aug 23, 2012 | 73 comments
9.The innovations of Internet Explorer (nczonline.net)
174 points by kalyanganjam on Aug 23, 2012 | 74 comments
10.JSON+UDP+DHT=Freedom (telehash.org)
174 points by nmcfarl on Aug 23, 2012 | 39 comments
11.Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS (facebook.com)
158 points by relation on Aug 23, 2012 | 65 comments
12.Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method (fleksy.com)
150 points by nreece on Aug 23, 2012 | 101 comments
13.The Hidden Subversive Message in Gangnam Style (theatlantic.com)
148 points by lionhearted on Aug 23, 2012 | 44 comments

This is a ridiculous argument - relative dates are an enormous usability improvement for actual users, who don't care about machine-readable timestamps or the incredible mess that is timezones.

Twitter also doesn't give a fuck about archival via screenshots. I'm pretty hard-pressed to imagine who would, actually.

15.Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male (pingdom.com)
134 points by luigi on Aug 23, 2012 | 88 comments
16.Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby (datagenetics.com)
130 points by pavanlimo on Aug 23, 2012 | 62 comments
17.IKEA's New Catalogs: Less Pine, More Pixels (wsj.com)
117 points by petethomas on Aug 23, 2012 | 49 comments
18.An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg (techspot.com)
108 points by marioestrada on Aug 23, 2012 | 38 comments
19.The Cheapest Generation (theatlantic.com)
109 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 23, 2012 | 202 comments
20.What Jamie Wong did at Khan Academy (jamie-wong.com)
108 points by cbhl on Aug 23, 2012 | 35 comments
21.My Paleo Media Diet (oreilly.com)
103 points by michael_fine on Aug 23, 2012 | 72 comments
22.Silicon Valley Techies Fight to Save a Popular but Illegal Haven (nytimes.com)
92 points by bluehat on Aug 23, 2012 | 104 comments
23.The Software Engineering of Mathematica (wolfram.com)
90 points by lf6648 on Aug 23, 2012 | 21 comments
24.Prismatic for iPhone is now live in the App Store (getprismatic.com)
84 points by w01fe on Aug 23, 2012 | 48 comments
25.What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome) (dangrossman.info)
83 points by johnx123-up on Aug 23, 2012 | 43 comments
26.Selling $2,000+ Worth Of My Unfinished Book (planscope.io)
77 points by bdunn on Aug 23, 2012 | 92 comments
27.Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City (homesforhackers.com)
74 points by nordicnomad82 on Aug 23, 2012 | 54 comments

Facebook made the mistake of optimizing for their developers' sense of efficiency -- at the cost of user experience -- rather than optimizing for their users' experience.

Given the resources available to them, switching to UIWebView was a ridiculous trade-off. I'm glad to see they rectified this decision.

The lesson to be learned is this: at the end of the day, it's the product and user experience that matters. If you sacrifice product quality for some notion of engineering perfectionism -- whatever it might be -- you're not doing your job as a professional engineer.

29.Mac OS X 10.8.1 is out. (support.apple.com)
72 points by mvip on Aug 23, 2012 | 103 comments
30.US appeals court rules in favor of patenting genes (reuters.com)
71 points by doktrin on Aug 23, 2012 | 71 comments

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