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1.		Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost (cnet.com)
		389 points by iProject on June 30, 2012 \| 183 comments
2.		Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library (libccv.org)
		301 points by liuliu on June 30, 2012 \| 54 comments
3.		The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir (pgbovine.net)
		285 points by unignorant on June 30, 2012 \| 80 comments
4.		Leap second causing Linux server crashes? (serverfault.com)
		253 points by sathyabhat on June 30, 2012 \| 114 comments
5.		AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US (amazon.com)
		239 points by aritraghosh007 on June 30, 2012 \| 163 comments
6.		Heroku is down again (heroku.com)
		203 points by ardakara on June 30, 2012 \| 126 comments
7.		Amber Waves of Green (gq.com)
		198 points by ido on June 30, 2012 \| 203 comments
		nkoren on June 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations Footnote, not mentioned in the story: Elon Musk tweets that he'll donate the $1M to Doctors Without Borders in any case, as though he'd lost the bet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/218897974242181121 100%. Class. Act.
9.		Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes (ikamasutra.com)
		154 points by pgrote on June 30, 2012 \| 30 comments
10.		The FFmpeg/Libav situation (pkh.me)
		150 points by ux on June 30, 2012 \| 51 comments
11.		Chrome now the most popular browser (statcounter.com)
		142 points by rocco on June 30, 2012 \| 99 comments
12.		Higher-order programming in C (vedantk.tumblr.com)
		141 points by sthatipamala on June 30, 2012 \| 45 comments
13.		How Google handle leap seconds (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		138 points by cientifico on June 30, 2012 \| 28 comments
14.		JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy (javascriptweblog.wordpress.com)
		131 points by toffeescript on June 30, 2012 \| 33 comments
15.		Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more (venturebeat.com)
		130 points by amnigos on June 30, 2012 \| 33 comments
16.		Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS
		128 points by richardv on June 30, 2012 \| 33 comments
17.		A rough guide to keeping your website up through catastrophic events (rainforestapp.com)
		120 points by fredsters_s on June 30, 2012 \| 52 comments
18.		Quake 3 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
		120 points by mgevans on June 30, 2012 \| 12 comments
19.		Did Twitter Just Deliver Third Party Apps A Death Blow? (talkingpointsmemo.com)
		118 points by jdp23 on June 30, 2012 \| 46 comments
		tyrmored on June 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Heroku is down again The cloud is no match for the cloud!
21.		SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 (arstechnica.com)
		98 points by vasili on June 30, 2012 \| 63 comments
22.		Introduction to Algorithms (videolectures.net)
		94 points by ekm2 on June 30, 2012 \| 15 comments
23.		Will That Be Trash or Credit? (sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
		88 points by jawns on June 30, 2012 \| 46 comments
24.		If you're not going to become a professor, then why bother pursuing a Ph.D.? (pgbovine.net)
		85 points by Firebrand on June 30, 2012 \| 62 comments
25.		Letters of Note: I think I no how to make people or animals alive (lettersofnote.com)
		77 points by ColinWright on June 30, 2012 \| 7 comments
		notatoad on June 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexu... Except that isn't what is happening here. If you wanted a bicycle metaphor, apple has invented a wonderful carbon fibre bicycle that everybody wants. Then, despite the fact that bicycles have existed for a hundred years, they got patents on things like "using levers to shift" and "building a frame out of tube-like structures". And now, every time somebody starts to make a bicycle that is even remotely competitive, they get sued. Do you really think that apple invented search-as-you-type? Did they invent the concept of using a date picker to set a meeting? Do they really deserve a patent on thin rectangular things? No, that is all bullshit and it is shameful that the courts are willing to be bullied (or bought) into playing along with this farce.
27.		Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?
		70 points by diminium on June 30, 2012 \| 20 comments
28.		US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing (singularityhub.com)
		70 points by protomyth on June 30, 2012 \| 61 comments
		zacharyvoase on June 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US By what stretch of the imagination is this icon suitable for representing a total loss of availability due to a power outage?: http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif Is this not a 'service disruption' situation? At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with 'performance issues'. If there's one thing that's shocked me about AWS, it's the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions. Like the above case, or the fact that a 3-hour loss of connectivity is displayed on the service history as a green tick with a small 'i' box: http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg
30.		Why supermarket tomatoes tend to taste bland (latimes.com)
		63 points by esalazar on June 30, 2012 \| 34 comments
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