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1.Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot (yourkarma.com)
216 points by ChrisArchitect on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
2.Touché (cmu.edu)
207 points by interconnector on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
3.ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation (itu.int)
209 points by mtgx on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.The Insourcing Boom (theatlantic.com)
173 points by airlocksoftware on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
5.I quit Twitter for a month and it changed my thinking about mostly everything. (adambrault.com)
176 points by HenrikJoreteg on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
6.Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering (golang.org)
168 points by enneff on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
7. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
7.University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon (uwaterloo.ca)
162 points by meangeme on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
8.Netflix signs licensing agreement with Disney (engadget.com)
163 points by MarlonPro on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
9.How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it at the final hurdle (swaggadocio.com)
138 points by sjtgraham on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
10. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.Hacker News: DMCA (news.ycombinator.com)
138 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
11.The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
137 points by Firehed on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
12.China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars (google.com)
134 points by othello on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
13. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.How tall can a Lego tower get? (bbc.co.uk)
122 points by jofo25 on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
14.Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field (nasa.gov)
112 points by espeed on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
15.Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus (idonethis.com)
110 points by ca98am79 on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
16. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
16.Common Pitfalls with Django and South (andrewingram.net)
108 points by andrewingram on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
17.$20 Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says (npr.org)
107 points by rileycrane on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
18.Developer Time (pydanny.com)
103 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Crap I'm speaking at [insert conference here]. How do I prepare? (roguelynn.com)
100 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
20.WiFi Signals Caught on Camera (newscientist.com)
101 points by victoro on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
21.Hacker School Winter 2013 Applications are Open (hackerschool.com)
98 points by sunahsuh on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
22. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Most Popular How-To Guides of 2012 (lifehacker.com)
96 points by patrickk on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
23.Designing Pragmatic RESTful APIs (apigee.com)
96 points by coderush on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
24.Google Car Search (google.com)
94 points by kirubakaran on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.Twemproxy, a Redis/memcached proxy from Twitter with auto-sharding (antirez.com)
90 points by mjackson on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
26.Why 'The Daily' Failed (daringfireball.net)
88 points by MaxGabriel on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
27.The Next SoundCloud Becomes SoundCloud (soundcloud.com)
87 points by gulbrandr on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
28. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
28.Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here (drdobbs.com)
83 points by jacquesm on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
29.Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally (thenextweb.com)
81 points by Quekster on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
30.D3, Conceptually - Lesson 2 (hazzens.com)
72 points by hazzen on Dec 4, 2012 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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