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1.Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011) (theiacp.org)
418 points by iamwil on Aug 24, 2012 | 104 comments
2.Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y (antjanus.com)
346 points by antjanus on Aug 24, 2012 | 144 comments
3.Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes (techcrunch.com)
319 points by irunbackwards on Aug 24, 2012 | 354 comments
4.Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine (evernote.com)
283 points by zachh on Aug 24, 2012 | 143 comments
5.Some web development tips from a former Digg developer (duruk.net)
208 points by cancan on Aug 24, 2012 | 64 comments
6.Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely. (nadim.cc)
193 points by derrida on Aug 24, 2012 | 81 comments
7.Backbone has made me a better programmer (floatleft.com)
169 points by appleton on Aug 24, 2012 | 86 comments
8.A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed (arstechnica.com)
159 points by Cieplak on Aug 24, 2012 | 196 comments
9.Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway (vg.no)
142 points by sindhiparsani on Aug 24, 2012 | 98 comments
10.Watch Out Mars: 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent (scientificamerican.com)
137 points by MetallicCloud on Aug 24, 2012 | 25 comments
11.Perl gained a feature for fixing communication with the Magellan probe (perl.org)
137 points by kamaal on Aug 24, 2012 | 2 comments
12.Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy (techinasia.com)
132 points by hoi on Aug 24, 2012 | 123 comments
13.My Python Code for the Netflix Prize (github.com/alexbw)
130 points by alexbw on Aug 24, 2012 | 28 comments
14.Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions (red-sweater.com)
125 points by driverdan on Aug 24, 2012 | 44 comments
15.Once a somebody, now a nobody: Starcraft 2 has destroyed my life (olganon.org)
122 points by voidnothings on Aug 24, 2012 | 120 comments
16.Show HN: GoScale Cloud Scaling in Milliseconds (goscale.com)
118 points by ColinHayhurst on Aug 24, 2012 | 60 comments
17.Why I am tired of writing pull requests (gist.io)
110 points by gistacoder on Aug 24, 2012 | 64 comments
18.Groklaw on the Apple v. Samsung jury verdict (groklaw.net)
109 points by grellas on Aug 24, 2012 | 31 comments
19.The dark side of light: negative frequency photons (arstechnica.com)
102 points by aquark on Aug 24, 2012 | 52 comments
20.Releasing Outside The App Store (mattgemmell.com)
97 points by joao on Aug 24, 2012 | 49 comments
21.Be happy Bike to work. (csharpening.net)
94 points by l33t_d0nut on Aug 24, 2012 | 135 comments
22.How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011) (freshdesk.com)
90 points by zio99 on Aug 24, 2012 | 24 comments

> "President Obama is committed to creating the most open and participatory government in our nation’s history"

I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistleblowers in recent history.

Sources:

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistlebl... http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/expert_con... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/us/politics/new-rules-to-c... http://www.salon.com/2012/03/30/the_most_transparent_adminis... https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/us/government-documents-i...

24.Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL and SDL) (github.com/andyhd)
83 points by Charles__L on Aug 24, 2012 | 37 comments
25.Startup Stagnation (getfinch.com)
82 points by jonemo on Aug 24, 2012 | 57 comments
26.Paul Oakenfold crowdsources a beat on beatlab (beatlab.com)
81 points by jbaudanza on Aug 24, 2012 | 38 comments

OT, but that is one hell of a hierarchical URL
28.PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB (rsms.me)
76 points by shinvee on Aug 24, 2012 | 13 comments
29.DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system (lwn.net)
77 points by rohshall on Aug 24, 2012 | 30 comments
30.Why Self-Track? The Possibility of Hard-to-Explain Change (quantifiedself.com)
76 points by harscoat on Aug 24, 2012 | 41 comments

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