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1. Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today (heraldsun.com.au)
980 points by Grovara123 on Aug 25, 2012 | 92 comments
2. The Tim Cook memo: line by line (jacquesmattheij.com)
334 points by plinkplonk on Aug 25, 2012 | 300 comments
3. I can't make this stuff up (plus.google.com)
329 points by vibrunazo on Aug 25, 2012 | 182 comments
4. The fall of Angry Birds (treysmithblog.com)
316 points by bootload on Aug 25, 2012 | 183 comments
5. Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced; What's Wrong With this Picture (groklaw.net)
253 points by GICodeWarrior on Aug 25, 2012 | 149 comments
6. The App Store Nightmare (deplinenoise.wordpress.com)
217 points by enqk on Aug 25, 2012 | 104 comments
7. Statement from the Family of Neil A. Armstrong (spaceref.com)
173 points by ColinWright on Aug 25, 2012 | 10 comments
8. Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. (hanselman.com)
168 points by nigelsampson on Aug 25, 2012 | 157 comments
9. JsPlumb (jsplumb.org)
139 points by egonschiele on Aug 25, 2012 | 22 comments
10. Stanford Biologist and Computer Scientist Discover the 'Anternet' (stanford.edu)
134 points by stollercyrus on Aug 25, 2012 | 42 comments
11. Doodle Jump Recreated in HTML5 ...with source (cssdeck.com)
131 points by game_man on Aug 25, 2012 | 64 comments
12. Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund (wepay.com)
109 points by gurglz on Aug 25, 2012 | 54 comments
13. Career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer (leanpub.com)
109 points by hekker on Aug 25, 2012 | 63 comments
14. Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface (nasa.gov)
106 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 25, 2012 | 15 comments
15. Elon Musk Wins 2012 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award (popularmechanics.com)
95 points by MikeCapone on Aug 25, 2012 | 10 comments
16. Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome (neutron-drive.appspot.com)
81 points by cyberpanther on Aug 25, 2012 | 23 comments
17. How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook (umich.edu)
76 points by zachrose on Aug 25, 2012 | 27 comments
18. Show & Thank HN: my friday night project turns into a venture (postcongress.io)
74 points by scottmotte on Aug 25, 2012 | 47 comments
19. Whatever you like doing, do it (lettersofnote.com)
74 points by cs702 on Aug 25, 2012 | 13 comments
20. Numba: NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python (github.com/numba)
64 points by pash on Aug 25, 2012 | 23 comments
21. LIFE on the Moon (1969) (books.google.com)
62 points by mikecane on Aug 25, 2012 | 18 comments
22. Bastion’s Open Source Branch for MonoGame (supergiantgames.com)
61 points by felipellrocha on Aug 25, 2012 | 6 comments
23. PhalconPHP - High Perf PHP Framework as a C Extension (phalconphp.com)
59 points by binarydreams on Aug 25, 2012 | 37 comments
24. Inside Larry Ellison’s Insane Plan to Turn America’s Cup Into a TV Spectacle (wired.com)
56 points by lnguyen on Aug 25, 2012 | 22 comments
25. Miguel de Icaza on Samsung v Apple (plus.google.com)
53 points by esolyt on Aug 25, 2012 | 28 comments
26. MacBook Air Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7.4 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1 (macobserver.com)
52 points by tanousjm on Aug 25, 2012 | 32 comments
27. Your Brain Can Be Hacked (technorati.com)
49 points by iProject on Aug 25, 2012 | 12 comments
28. Mayer Declares That It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time at Yahoo (allthingsd.com)
49 points by ashishbharthi on Aug 25, 2012 | 42 comments
29. How To Give (Negative) Feedback Effectively (jasonshen.com)
48 points by pytrin on Aug 25, 2012 | 19 comments
30. Why I Hate Tech Recruiters (obsceneart.net)
44 points by tlhunter on Aug 25, 2012 | 52 comments

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