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1.Uses for cURL (httpkit.com)
339 points by KrisJordan on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
2.How to get your IP unbanned on HN [ext]
220 points by pg on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
3.The People's Bailout (howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com)
219 points by dorkitude on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 313 comments [ext]
4. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown (arstechnica.com)
216 points by shawndumas on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 189 comments [ext]
5.The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org)
202 points by llambda on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
6.Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries (nytimes.com)
199 points by mhb on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
7. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
7.Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more (thenextweb.com)
184 points by derpenxyne on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
8.How to Detect a Toxic Customer (2010) (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.The UK Court Sanctions Apple, Hopes "Lack of Integrity" Is Not "Typical" (groklaw.net)
160 points by esolyt on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
10. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 12 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software (apebox.org)
159 points by slyall on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
11.Eight Years of Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
155 points by pragmatictester on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
12.An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app (computerworld.com)
142 points by CrankyBear on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
13. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Objective-C in The Cloud (objective-cloud.com)
132 points by marbletiles on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
14.Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election (floatingsheep.org)
127 points by nreece on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
15.Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell (defmacro.org)
116 points by llambda on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
16. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
16.What Programmers Want Is Less Stupid And More Programming (thecodist.com)
113 points by joeyespo on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
17. Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving. (rosalind.info)
109 points by nkurz on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
18.That'll Never Work (jgc.org)
111 points by jgrahamc on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer (nytimes.com)
107 points by nikunjk on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
20.Supreme Court of Canada Voids Viagra Patent for Insufficient Disclosure (michaelgeist.ca)
106 points by edj on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python (falcao.it)
97 points by gfalcao on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
22. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.Was Nate Silver the Most Accurate 2012 Election Pundit? (appliedrationality.org)
97 points by kf on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
23.The Nuclear Scientist Who Skipped College (theatlantic.com)
96 points by sasvari on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
24.Redis data model and eventual consistency (antirez.com)
85 points by wglb on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
25. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
25.Arduino Micro shrinks your favorite DIY platform down (engadget.com)
84 points by redDragon on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.Txtbirds (jsvine.com)
84 points by jsvine on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
27.dōmo: Markup, style, and code in one language (domo-js.com)
83 points by jedschmidt on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
28. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
28.Git push over XMPP (joeyh.name)
78 points by bokchoi on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.How I came to love big data (37signals.com)
71 points by ejpastorino on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
30.How a single person can make a huge difference to your startup in 24 hours (tray.io)
74 points by domlewis1 on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
31. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments

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