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1. Show HN: Script Excel with Python (ironspread.com)
280 points by karamazov on June 8, 2012 | 61 comments
2. Hang Around with People who Get Shit Done (jaxn.org)
254 points by jaxn on June 8, 2012 | 78 comments
3. In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It (maa.org)
236 points by tokenadult on June 8, 2012 | 127 comments
4. Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting (arstechnica.com)
224 points by asianexpress on June 8, 2012 | 88 comments
5. Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code (bbc.com)
202 points by ytNumbers on June 8, 2012 | 79 comments
6. Long Exposure Photographs Shot from Orbit (petapixel.com)
194 points by DanielRibeiro on June 8, 2012 | 25 comments
7. Camera+ turned down acquisition offers and says no to VC money (techcrunch.com)
195 points by freshfey on June 8, 2012 | 40 comments
8. IOS browsers have a 300ms click delay - But developers can bypass it (developers.google.com)
183 points by heeton on June 8, 2012 | 52 comments
9. Visas for entrepreneurs (economist.com)
170 points by newscasta on June 8, 2012 | 75 comments
10. Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear (timoni.org)
173 points by jroes on June 8, 2012 | 198 comments
11. Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines (violatetwitterbrandguidelines.com)
161 points by bertrandom on June 8, 2012 | 57 comments
12. Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin (github.com/bmatzelle)
161 points by shawndumas on June 8, 2012 | 82 comments
13. How I Fire People (nytimes.com)
156 points by michaelleland on June 8, 2012 | 126 comments
14. Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect on development time (washington.edu)
155 points by akkartik on June 8, 2012 | 187 comments
15. PyPy 1.9 Released (morepypy.blogspot.it)
153 points by makeramen on June 8, 2012 | 4 comments
16. Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison (ec2instances.info)
152 points by beaucronin on June 8, 2012 | 92 comments
17. Do What You Love (valvesoftware.com)
140 points by aaronbrethorst on June 8, 2012 | 77 comments
18. Math professor's side mirror that eliminates 'blind spot' receives US patent (phys.org)
139 points by yogrish on June 8, 2012 | 72 comments
19. Don't wait for "DOM ready" for your app to start (plus.google.com)
126 points by jacobr on June 8, 2012 | 39 comments
20. The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives (microsoft.com)
109 points by michael_fine on June 8, 2012 | 91 comments
21. High school teacher tells graduating students: you’re not special (nydailynews.com)
109 points by stfu on June 8, 2012 | 85 comments
22. Backbone Aura Developer Preview (addyosmani.github.com)
108 points by jashkenas on June 8, 2012 | 18 comments
23. One way to fix your rubbish password database (jgc.org)
101 points by jgrahamc on June 8, 2012 | 89 comments
24. How SEO Killed Online Reviews (koozai.com)
92 points by trevin on June 8, 2012 | 45 comments
25. Sorry, Young Man, You're Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech (theatlantic.com)
82 points by afuchs on June 8, 2012 | 51 comments
26. Poul-Henning Kamp: LinkedIn Password Leak? Salt Their Hide (acm.org)
68 points by CowboyRobot on June 8, 2012 | 57 comments
27. (x / 2) or (x >> 1)? (stackoverflow.com)
67 points by pykello on June 8, 2012 | 41 comments
28. Express for Desktop allows for non-metro development in Visual Studio 2012 (arstechnica.com)
67 points by ryanmolden on June 8, 2012 | 43 comments
29. Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong (rodneyrehm.de)
66 points by cheeaun on June 8, 2012 | 23 comments
30. ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like (flirttape.com)
63 points by jpadilla_ on June 8, 2012 | 57 comments

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