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1.Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) (raptitude.com)
227 points by dsr12 on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
2.Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World (wired.com)
213 points by cyphersanctus on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 149 comments [ext]
3.The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
191 points by danboarder on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
4. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
4.What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud (stockfraudstory.blogspot.com)
177 points by bsims on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
5.There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US (petapixel.com)
166 points by rpledge on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
6.A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks (github.com/ipython)
161 points by houshuang on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Letter from the grave (2009) (newyorker.com)
143 points by toddrew on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
8.SourceTree for Windows beta (sourcetreeapp.com)
140 points by bencevans on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
9.LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base [video] (fosdem.org)
134 points by ExpiredLink on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
10. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
10.The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care (juliefredrickson.tumblr.com)
128 points by brianvan on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
11.Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp (erdi.hu)
129 points by malloc47 on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
12.Tips for work-life balance (might.net)
127 points by g3orge on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game (github.com/johnearnest)
126 points by RodgerTheGreat on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
14.The Story of Wanz, 51-Year-Old Breakout Singer on "Thrift Shop" (popdust.com)
122 points by _rrnv on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
15.Design of Lisp-based Processors (1979) (dspace.mit.edu)
117 points by Cieplak on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
16. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 12 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Interactive Vim Tutorial (openvim.com)
102 points by of on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
17.As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide (nytimes.com)
101 points by danso on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
18.Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there? [ext]
95 points by rohanpai on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
19. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
19.How domains became backwards (newgas.net)
95 points by advisedwang on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
20.In China, Betting It All on a Child in College (nytimes.com)
92 points by awk on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
21.Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car (consumerreports.org)
85 points by slantyyz on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
22. Why fully automated AI cedes a more valuable design space (readwise.io)
73 points by nan9853 265 days ago | hide | 77 comments
22.Dear awesome startups, don’t join an accelerator, unless… (pandodaily.com)
85 points by yesplorer on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
23.A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked (businessweek.com)
82 points by kevbin on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
24.How To Design For Android Devices (mengto.com)
80 points by nvk on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
25.World's Dumbest Rebrand? (inc.com)
75 points by yesplorer on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
26.Android apps can now use Subscription Billing (android.com)
74 points by jfoster on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.PayMill. Is it really a clone of Stripe? (prashant.es)
72 points by Rulero on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
28. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments
28.Scans reveal intricate brain wiring (bbc.co.uk)
69 points by haven on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.Harlem Shake - For Website (hsmaker.com)
70 points by sirzataytac on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
30.Lua in the NetBSD Kernel [pdf] (fosdem.org)
68 points by profquail on Feb 17, 2013 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
31. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments

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