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Top of Month - Aug 2012

1. Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
   (25 Aug 2012 | 980 points | Comments)

2. This is how Visa works
   (17 Aug 2012 | 931 points | Comments)

3. Amazon Glacier
   (21 Aug 2012 | 906 points | Comments)

4. Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
   (17 Aug 2012 | 871 points | Comments)

5. This is a bit f'd, Quora
   (13 Aug 2012 | 827 points | Comments)

6. Textmate2 Goes Open Source
   (9 Aug 2012 | 780 points | Comments)

7. Design Tip: Never Use Black
   (8 Aug 2012 | 761 points | Comments)

8. An Unexpected Ass Kicking
   (5 Aug 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

9. Dear Mark Zuckerberg
   (1 Aug 2012 | 743 points | Comments)

10. I Have 50 Dollars
    (17 Aug 2012 | 647 points | Comments)

11. ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
    (7 Aug 2012 | 629 points | Comments)

12. Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows
    (2 Aug 2012 | 611 points | Comments)

13. Mars Curiosity's first images
    (6 Aug 2012 | 592 points | Comments)

14. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor
    (3 Aug 2012 | 564 points | Comments)

15. Great work Visa, now I hate you
    (6 Aug 2012 | 551 points | Comments)

16. Wikipedia Redefined
    (7 Aug 2012 | 550 points | Comments)

17. What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
    (28 Aug 2012 | 534 points | Comments)

18. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
    (20 Aug 2012 | 519 points | Comments)

19. Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
    (16 Aug 2012 | 515 points | Comments)

20. Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
    (26 Aug 2012 | 494 points | Comments)

21. AMA with Barack Obama
    (29 Aug 2012 | 493 points | Comments)

22. John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy
    (14 Aug 2012 | 480 points | Comments)

23. A Man Walks into a Bank
    (6 Aug 2012 | 479 points | Comments)

24. Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
    (17 Aug 2012 | 471 points | Comments)

25. Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
    (3 Aug 2012 | 470 points | Comments)

26. Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web
    (22 Aug 2012 | 469 points | Comments)

27. 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
    (29 Aug 2012 | 468 points | Comments)

28. Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
    (23 Aug 2012 | 462 points | Comments)

29. Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker
    (9 Aug 2012 | 460 points | Comments)

30. Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
    (4 Aug 2012 | 446 points | Comments)

31. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
    (7 Aug 2012 | 446 points | Comments)

32. Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek
    (2 Aug 2012 | 439 points | Comments)

33. Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
    (8 Aug 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

34. First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
    (8 Aug 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

35. A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
    (24 Aug 2012 | 433 points | Comments)

36. Do you have a secret?
    (1 Aug 2012 | 432 points | Comments)

37. Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
    (16 Aug 2012 | 427 points | Comments)

38. The weakest link by far is Apple
    (7 Aug 2012 | 421 points | Comments)

39. Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
    (24 Aug 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

40. A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious
    (26 Aug 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

41. What I Hate About Git
    (4 Aug 2012 | 417 points | Comments)

42. How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
    (13 Aug 2012 | 414 points | Comments)

43. Bootstrap 2.1 released
    (21 Aug 2012 | 413 points | Comments)

44. 256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id
    (15 Aug 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

45. Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
    (6 Aug 2012 | 409 points | Comments)

46. Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings
    (21 Aug 2012 | 398 points | Comments)

47. Learning C with gdb
    (27 Aug 2012 | 397 points | Comments)

48. Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family
    (2 Aug 2012 | 386 points | Comments)

49. Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website.
    (21 Aug 2012 | 383 points | Comments)

50. The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything
    (2 Aug 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

51. GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
    (29 Aug 2012 | 376 points | Comments)

52. Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus
    (10 Aug 2012 | 365 points | Comments)

53. App.net funded with $500,000.
    (12 Aug 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

54. Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap
    (20 Aug 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

55. Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
    (12 Aug 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

56. Move your feet
    (27 Aug 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

57. Some performance tweaks
    (8 Aug 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

58. Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
    (17 Aug 2012 | 347 points | Comments)

59. Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
    (17 Aug 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

60. Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
    (24 Aug 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

61. Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job
    (8 Aug 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

62. What killed the Linux desktop
    (29 Aug 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

63. You'll never be Chinese
    (10 Aug 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

64. Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy
    (16 Aug 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

65. Khan Academy: Computer Science
    (14 Aug 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

66. Things I do to be consistently happy
    (19 Aug 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

67. The Tim Cook memo: line by line
    (25 Aug 2012 | 334 points | Comments)

68. Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..
    (3 Aug 2012 | 331 points | Comments)

69. I can't make this stuff up
    (25 Aug 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

70. Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)
    (15 Aug 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

71. Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked
    (8 Aug 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

72. John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died.
    (30 Aug 2012 | 324 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers
    (8 Aug 2012 | 323 points | Comments)

74. How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours
    (10 Aug 2012 | 323 points | Comments)

75. Font that creates charts
    (16 Aug 2012 | 321 points | Comments)

76. Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
    (23 Aug 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

77. Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes
    (24 Aug 2012 | 319 points | Comments)

78. The fall of Angry Birds
    (25 Aug 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

79. Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account
    (5 Aug 2012 | 314 points | Comments)

80. The White House just open sourced their first Github repo
    (23 Aug 2012 | 314 points | Comments)

81. HN statistics
    (7 Aug 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

82. How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle
    (17 Aug 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

83. "The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors"
    (4 Aug 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

84. Typing Practice for Programmers
    (22 Aug 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

85. A Tor of the Dark Web
    (17 Aug 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

86. Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser
    (10 Aug 2012 | 308 points | Comments)

87. Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
    (30 Aug 2012 | 306 points | Comments)

88. 4chan: Beyond one billion
    (7 Aug 2012 | 305 points | Comments)

89. A Proposal To Improve Hacker News
    (17 Aug 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

90. The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down
    (31 Aug 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

91. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
    (1 Aug 2012 | 298 points | Comments)

92. Light Table reaches 0.1.0
    (17 Aug 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

93. Lobsters
    (30 Aug 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

94. "100% of our production system is now running Go"
    (31 Aug 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
    (31 Aug 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

96. Believe you can change
    (20 Aug 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

97. Look at yourself objectively
    (27 Aug 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

98. Why don't they just..?
    (20 Aug 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

99. New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
    (30 Aug 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

100. Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously
     (3 Aug 2012 | 290 points | Comments)