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1.Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem (slate.com)
217 points by soupboy on July 14, 2012 | 174 comments
2.Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass (toshl.com)
189 points by Beat-O on July 14, 2012 | 92 comments
3.Read the masters (federicopereiro.com)
189 points by fpereiro on July 14, 2012 | 53 comments
4.Traction mistakes (gabrielweinberg.com)
182 points by dwynings on July 14, 2012 | 39 comments
5.XBMC For Android (xbmc.org)
161 points by mmahemoff on July 14, 2012 | 42 comments
6.The Most Important Social Network: GitHub (7fff.com)
160 points by tuke on July 14, 2012 | 72 comments
7.Elon Musk Fireside Chat Video (spaceindustrynews.com)
136 points by littlesparkvt on July 14, 2012 | 20 comments
8.Why Do We Wear Pants? Horses. (theatlantic.com)
123 points by rosser on July 14, 2012 | 41 comments
9.A World Without Coral Reefs (nytimes.com)
116 points by raymondh on July 14, 2012 | 42 comments
10.Apple tells retailers to stop selling the Galaxy Nexus and Tab (venturebeat.com)
108 points by vibrunazo on July 14, 2012 | 120 comments
11.The Cost of Free Doughnuts (npr.org)
95 points by kariatx on July 14, 2012 | 34 comments
12.F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critics (nytimes.com)
88 points by jamesbritt on July 14, 2012 | 25 comments
13.America’s economy is once again reinventing itself (economist.com)
84 points by shill on July 14, 2012 | 74 comments
14.Marc Andreessen “tried really hard not to invent anything new” (horsesaysinternet.com)
84 points by oscar-the-horse on July 14, 2012 | 49 comments
15.The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit (slate.com)
75 points by pwg on July 14, 2012 | 125 comments
16.Young entrepreneurs turn a Tweet from Richard Branson into $1 Million (yahoo.com)
66 points by ahlemk on July 14, 2012 | 62 comments
17.Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file? (superuser.com)
67 points by readme on July 14, 2012 | 61 comments
18.10 Years of Atari/Atari Games VaxMail (textfiles.com)
63 points by quadfour on July 14, 2012 | 25 comments
19.Scala Adding Macros to the Language (infoq.com)
53 points by DanielRibeiro on July 14, 2012 | 27 comments
20.Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas (current.com)
50 points by sajid on July 14, 2012 | 74 comments
21.Patent Trolls - A New Study and a Survey (groklaw.net)
52 points by lightspot on July 14, 2012 | 13 comments
22.Ask HN: Do online demos without sign-up actually increase sign-ups?
52 points by thibaut_barrere on July 14, 2012 | 52 comments
23.Python.org Redesign Proposals due in 7 days (jessenoller.com)
52 points by jnoller on July 14, 2012 | 11 comments
24.Spool is joining Facebook (getspool.com)
47 points by antr on July 14, 2012 | 26 comments
25.Ask HN: If there was no internet, what business would you have started?
47 points by stefanobernardi on July 14, 2012 | 53 comments
26.Ouya Approaches $5 Million In Backing, Attracts 5x Goal (So Far) (thepowerbase.com)
45 points by lordpenguin on July 14, 2012 | 53 comments
27.In Dieting, Magic Isn’t a Substitute for Science (nytimes.com)
41 points by vellum on July 14, 2012 | 68 comments
28.Judge blasts colleagues for defying Supreme Court, allowing financial patent (arstechnica.com)
40 points by iProject on July 14, 2012 | 6 comments
29.IAmA Ex-Digg Employee (reddit.com)
35 points by personlurking on July 14, 2012 | 16 comments
30.Windows 8's Achilles' heel: Metro applications (osnews.com)
32 points by mariuz on July 14, 2012 | 49 comments

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