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1. Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles
572 points by there on June 12, 2012 | 46 comments
2. I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. (hooktheory.com)
497 points by davec on June 12, 2012 | 183 comments
3. Civ II game a decade old (reddit.com)
471 points by jchrisa on June 12, 2012 | 133 comments
4. Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations (rigoneri.com)
322 points by rigoneri on June 12, 2012 | 75 comments
5. Why Smart People Are Stupid (newyorker.com)
302 points by mshafrir on June 12, 2012 | 213 comments
6. Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux (consumerist.com)
271 points by sequoia on June 12, 2012 | 159 comments
7. Flame is Lame (f-secure.com)
267 points by wglb on June 12, 2012 | 100 comments
8. Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots (nytimes.com)
200 points by akharris on June 12, 2012 | 66 comments
9. My first month freelancing (alanhollis.com)
191 points by Alan01252 on June 12, 2012 | 119 comments
10. The mintBox, a Linux Mint computer (linuxmint.com)
185 points by LeafStorm on June 12, 2012 | 80 comments
11. HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources (ietf.org)
174 points by tete on June 12, 2012 | 57 comments
12. I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked... (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
172 points by willvarfar on June 12, 2012 | 72 comments
13. New York to London in an hour - by train (smartplanet.com)
161 points by tnhu on June 12, 2012 | 142 comments
14. MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis (anandtech.com)
152 points by spathak on June 12, 2012 | 93 comments
15. Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2 (whiletruecode.com)
145 points by joshearl on June 12, 2012 | 97 comments
16. An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com)
128 points by preshing on June 12, 2012 | 20 comments
17. LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts as distribution (lwn.net)
117 points by aqrashik on June 12, 2012 | 43 comments
18. Indie Game: The Movie released on Steam (steampowered.com)
115 points by joshuacc on June 12, 2012 | 44 comments
19. Apple Maps (maps.apple.com)
111 points by seanponeil on June 12, 2012 | 54 comments
20. Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry (mashable.com)
108 points by Jagat on June 12, 2012 | 68 comments
21. Solve 50 problems in 50 days (50problems50days.com)
107 points by bhaveshdhupar on June 12, 2012 | 35 comments
22. Announcing Hipmunk's $15M Series B Funding (hipmunk.com)
104 points by jacqattack on June 12, 2012 | 67 comments
23. Zynga shares plummet as Facebook game craze wanes (reuters.com)
101 points by acak on June 12, 2012 | 58 comments
24. Boot2Gecko demo & quick hack (paulrouget.com)
95 points by there on June 12, 2012 | 22 comments
25. Getting started with with Ember.js (andymatthews.net)
86 points by chmike on June 12, 2012 | 19 comments
26. Andy Hertzfeld on the Demise of the Mac Pro (plus.google.com)
82 points by wyclif on June 12, 2012 | 79 comments
27. Heroku: a follow up on last week's outage (heroku.com)
81 points by twampss on June 12, 2012 | 44 comments
28. "Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6" (zdnet.com)
77 points by jgroome on June 12, 2012 | 148 comments
29. 2013 H1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted (slashdot.org)
74 points by moubarak on June 12, 2012 | 118 comments
30. Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$
74 points by ssn on June 12, 2012 | 95 comments

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