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1.Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time (mathalicious.com)
274 points by skrebbel on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 179 comments [ext]
2.Udacity to offer entire CS curriculum, certifications to obtain a degree online (plus.google.com)
225 points by dhawalhs on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
3.The sociology of drinking (gladwell.com)
219 points by overgard on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5 (turnjs.com)
213 points by blasten on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
5.Let's Build an MP3 Decoder (bjrn.se)
201 points by petercooper on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
6.Facebook Is Using You (nytimes.com)
193 points by charlie_joslin on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 14 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.More damaging evidence on open plan offices (thesoundagency.com)
173 points by ColinWright on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
8.A swarm of micro-quadcopters (hackaday.com)
167 points by m_for_monkey on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
9.Automate Everything - the hacker way (tomblomfield.com)
146 points by tomblomfield on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
10. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
10.Show HN: JavaScript Instagram-like Filters (github.com/alexmic)
127 points by alexmic on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
11.It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web (scobleizer.com)
124 points by minecraftman on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
12.With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits (cnn.com)
103 points by csomar on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
13. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
13.How I learned to stop worrying and love REST (mikemayo.org)
81 points by johns on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
14.On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (utexas.edu)
78 points by VMG on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
15.Earle/django-bootstrap - GitHub (github.com/earle)
72 points by superchink on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
16. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
16.Show HN: My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome) (heroku.com)
70 points by sjtgraham on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
17.Why Do Cells Age? Extremely Long-Lived Proteins (sciencedaily.com)
69 points by llambda on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
18.Site banned from AdSense restored after appeal to regulator (theage.com.au)
66 points by prawn on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.The strange case of the inverted chart (lesswrong.com)
65 points by gjm11 on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
20.Transparent Multi-Hop SSH (sourceforge.net)
63 points by notmyname on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
21.RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
59 points by kaeso on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
22. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.Haskell's effect on my C++ : exploit the type system (vallettaventures.com)
57 points by steeleduncan on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
23.Internet-Draft: A Convention for HTTP Access to JSON Resources (ietf.org)
56 points by jkbr on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
24.Speed running web games with Python (youtu.be)
50 points by googletron on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.Why using anchors as buttons sucks (plus.google.com)
50 points by tkazec on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible (adafruit.com)
50 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.A Solution to CPU-intensive Tasks in IO Loops (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
46 points by pors on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
28. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Go 1 Beta App Engine SDK now available (groups.google.com)
43 points by luriel on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
29.The Haskell road to logic review (arxiv.org)
42 points by wslh on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Over the Hill at 35 (takimag.com)
42 points by billswift on Feb 5, 2012 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
31. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments

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