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1831.
United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care (bobsutton.typepad.com)
242 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 14, 2012 | 188 comments
1832.
“I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer (arstechnica.com)
242 points by chinmoy on Oct 4, 2012 | 130 comments
1833.
Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire (wired.co.uk)
242 points by crm114 on Aug 3, 2012 | 118 comments
1834.
55,000 Twitter passwords leaked (airdemon.net)
242 points by gravitronic on May 8, 2012 | 104 comments
1835.
Glitch Is Closing (glitch.com)
242 points by pretz on Nov 15, 2012 | 104 comments
1836.
Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website (howacarworks.com)
242 points by AlexMuir on Dec 27, 2012 | 104 comments
1837.
Show HN: I built a thing (boxcarsurgery.com)
242 points by zacharydanger on Nov 3, 2012 | 102 comments
1838.
Nomic (en.wikipedia.org)
242 points by eugeniodepalo on Dec 8, 2012 | 84 comments
1839.
The Rise of the New Groupthink (nytimes.com)
242 points by user02138 on Jan 13, 2012 | 80 comments
1840.
Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) (wired.com)
242 points by jurre on Feb 21, 2012 | 66 comments
1841.
A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison (venturebeat.com)
242 points by bane on Jun 15, 2012 | 66 comments
1842.
Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls’ Claim To Own the Interactive Web (wired.com)
242 points by capocani on Feb 9, 2012 | 49 comments
1843.
Indian Government uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97% (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
241 points by Garbage on Mar 13, 2012 | 218 comments
1844.
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (washingtonpost.com)
241 points by Flemlord on Mar 4, 2012 | 215 comments
1845.
Apple’s great GPL purge (meta.ath0.com)
241 points by jamesbritt on Feb 7, 2012 | 205 comments
1846.
A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company (mashable.com)
241 points by jpadilla_ on Apr 27, 2012 | 193 comments
1847.
I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone
241 points by redhat on Mar 20, 2012 | 191 comments
1848.
Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% (andrewhy.de)
241 points by dfield on Jun 11, 2012 | 138 comments
1849.
WhatsApp is broken, really broken (fileperms.org)
241 points by espinchi on Sep 14, 2012 | 130 comments
1850.
NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You (wired.com)
241 points by mtgx on Jun 19, 2012 | 93 comments
1851.
$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB (hardkernel.com)
241 points by 6ren on Dec 28, 2012 | 92 comments
1852.
Coding tricks of game developers (dodgycoder.net)
241 points by damian2000 on Feb 11, 2012 | 65 comments
1853.
Announcing Wolfram Alpha Pro (blog.wolframalpha.com)
241 points by cleverjake on Feb 9, 2012 | 53 comments
1854.
GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. (therwp.com)
241 points by emillon on Mar 29, 2012 | 47 comments
1855.
How Reddit ranking algorithms work (amix.dk)
241 points by kopsai on Mar 22, 2012 | 29 comments
1856.
Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers (news.cnet.com)
240 points by dean on May 10, 2012 | 204 comments
1857.
Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times (thenextweb.com)
240 points by ryangilbert on Apr 10, 2012 | 191 comments
1858.
Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome (blogs.adobe.com)
240 points by hotice on Feb 22, 2012 | 184 comments
1859.
‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance (geekwire.com)
240 points by turoczy on Nov 4, 2012 | 155 comments
1860.
NoPassword (nopassword.alexsmolen.com)
240 points by BerislavLopac on Sep 25, 2012 | 145 comments