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1.Sh.py (amoffat.github.com)
493 points by daenz on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
2.Introducing the Command Bar (github.com/blog)
419 points by dko on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
3.Android can be beautiful (androidniceties.tumblr.com)
384 points by mephju on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways (npr.org)
353 points by missechokit on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
5.CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability (ceronman.com)
349 points by dcu on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
6.iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas (docs.google.com)
321 points by dbloom on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Analysis of bank PIN numbers (datagenetics.com)
255 points by dangoldin on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
8.Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)
251 points by swombat on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
9.How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One (cloudflare.com)
246 points by spahl on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
10. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (yahoo.com)
239 points by mtgx on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 179 comments [ext]
11.52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World (discovery.com)
237 points by antimora on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
12.Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB (svs.io)
203 points by svs on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
13. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
13.Animated GIFs the Hard Way (sublimetext.com)
190 points by jskinner on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
14.Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client (kalzumeus.com)
173 points by ananthrk on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
15.A Tour of the Acme Editor (swtch.com)
164 points by lnmx on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors (moebio.com)
157 points by chedar on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
17.New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (rapid7.com)
138 points by turnersr on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
18.Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" (csmonitor.com)
128 points by pavel_lishin on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
19. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
19.Just Cause 2 Multiplayer: Behind the scenes with gaming's greatest hack (redbull.co.uk)
127 points by bensillis on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
20.Amazon Maps API (amazonappstoredev.com)
125 points by ryandvm on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
21.Want to learn Django? Start here. (elweb.co)
119 points by flexterra on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
22. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.Recruiter Disruption Rant (lrug.org)
116 points by jimeh on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
23.Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released (antipope.org)
116 points by cstross on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.Actually, you don't understand lexical scope (github.com/raganwald)
107 points by fogus on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
25. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Web site launch toolkit (whattouse.com)
106 points by suavepenguin on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
26.TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less (tinytocs.org)
103 points by dhotson on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
27.Living Without Time (stevecorona.com)
93 points by iSimone on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it. (drewmackenzie.com)
89 points by andrewmackenzie on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
29.PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2 (github.com/aziz)
84 points by allenb on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.Color Film of London From 1902 Now Fully Restored (lore.com)
73 points by McKittrick on Sept 17, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
31. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments

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