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1. Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page (google.com)
399 points by huskyr on Oct 12, 2012 | 78 comments
2. If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This (hbr.org)
356 points by bcrawl on Oct 12, 2012 | 216 comments
3. The game of life emulated in the game of life (jwz.org)
300 points by koide on Oct 12, 2012 | 79 comments
4. The Product is the Byproduct (zachholman.com)
203 points by nphase on Oct 12, 2012 | 50 comments
5. On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal (laurasanders.net)
168 points by zachinglis on Oct 12, 2012 | 199 comments
6. Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch (reuters.com)
168 points by hornokplease on Oct 12, 2012 | 103 comments
7. Sugar, acid and teeth (2009) (dbskeptic.com)
165 points by jondot on Oct 12, 2012 | 102 comments
8. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win (optimizely.com)
156 points by dsiroker on Oct 12, 2012 | 44 comments
9. A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (1983) (zappa.com)
150 points by dsirijus on Oct 12, 2012 | 27 comments
10. Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong (theatlantic.com)
142 points by vectorbunny on Oct 12, 2012 | 48 comments
11. GET /browser.exe (ezyang.com)
139 points by mikexstudios on Oct 12, 2012 | 89 comments
12. Why does pinging 192.168.072 return a response from 192.168.0.58? (superuser.com)
136 points by sathyabhat on Oct 12, 2012 | 40 comments
13. What’s really so bad about bubble sort? (nicknash.me)
133 points by nicknash on Oct 12, 2012 | 58 comments
14. How to beat comment spam (dendory.net)
130 points by dendory on Oct 12, 2012 | 104 comments
15. Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0 (apache.org)
126 points by andrevoget on Oct 12, 2012 | 25 comments
16. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge (bmj.com)
110 points by gmac on Oct 12, 2012 | 57 comments
17. Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (theatlantic.com)
109 points by yarone on Oct 12, 2012 | 70 comments
18. The Making of Doom: Id's shooter masterpiece (pcgamesn.com)
105 points by pykello on Oct 12, 2012 | 37 comments
19. Ask HN: Can I visit your startup in SF?
94 points by maxcameron on Oct 12, 2012 | 83 comments
20. Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware (github.com/scripted-editor)
89 points by gglanzani on Oct 12, 2012 | 25 comments
21. Why is Linux more popular than BSD? (serverfault.com)
88 points by rohshall on Oct 12, 2012 | 109 comments
22. AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds (androidkickstartr.com)
87 points by bjonathan on Oct 12, 2012 | 31 comments
23. Why I Two-Space (stevelosh.com)
77 points by dcope on Oct 12, 2012 | 102 comments
24. Your Company Needs A Chief Dissent Officer (fastcompany.com)
75 points by ohmmmy on Oct 12, 2012 | 46 comments
25. Lone packet cripples telco networks (scmagazine.com.au)
72 points by maskofsanity on Oct 12, 2012 | 16 comments
26. Designing for iOS: Taming UIButton (thoughtbot.com)
59 points by kaishin on Oct 12, 2012 | 29 comments
27. Silicon Valley Prefers Obama 2 to 1 (paulgraham.com)
58 points by nikunjk on Oct 12, 2012 | 24 comments
28. Airplanes can't get much more efficient (empiricalzeal.com)
58 points by milind on Oct 12, 2012 | 35 comments
29. Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta. (docverter.com)
58 points by zrail on Oct 12, 2012 | 42 comments
30. Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead (pcworld.com)
56 points by Jarred on Oct 12, 2012 | 32 comments

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