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1.Amit Gupta needs you (amitguptaneedsyou.com)
886 points by mattangriffel on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
2.Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy (childsown.com)
536 points by latch on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
3.Jeff Atwood On Parenthood (codinghorror.com)
334 points by mootothemax on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
4. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
4.Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage (chrisharrison.net)
308 points by dholowiski on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
5.The Roots of Lisp (paulgraham.com)
296 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
6.Ixoth (ixoth.com)
242 points by kevinburke on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 43 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.John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby (stanford.edu)
234 points by bootload on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
8.What I learned from raising venture capital (gabrielweinberg.com)
211 points by danthompson on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
9.Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%) (cnn.com)
199 points by mikexstudios on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
10. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.Wikileaks Is Running Out Of Cash (techcrunch.com)
179 points by llambda on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
11.Economics in One Lesson (steshaw.org)
175 points by falava on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
12.Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788% (thestartuptoolkit.com)
168 points by robfitz on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.The Economics of Bike Lanes (economicsintelligence.com)
171 points by marbu on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
14.Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (stanford.edu)
165 points by pg on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
15.It's Never Really About Dropping Out (ihany.com)
155 points by kloncks on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
16. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
16.GoodData threatens our student startup with lawsuit (start2cloud.com)
152 points by vilda on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
17.The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes (macrumors.com)
147 points by sachitgupta on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
18.Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009) (infoq.com)
132 points by jaredsohn on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
19. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
19.Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language (neverworkintheory.org)
131 points by j_baker on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
20.Badass JS is back (badassjs.com)
130 points by devongovett on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
21.Assault by GC (marcgravell.blogspot.com)
129 points by lnmx on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity (grist.org)
125 points by ph0rque on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
23.Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing (catonmat.net)
125 points by cleverjake on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
24.I hate cut-and-paste (jacquesmattheij.com)
120 points by emwa on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
25. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
25.Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine. (github.com/krig)
120 points by krig on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
26.Slide Design for Developers (zachholman.com)
121 points by holman on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
27.John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future (stanford.edu)
115 points by protagonist_h on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access (svpow.wordpress.com)
114 points by MikeTaylor on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
29.Proposed law allows federal government to lie about public records' existence (propublica.org)
115 points by danso on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
30.Closed access means people die (cam.ac.uk)
105 points by ivoflipse on Oct 24, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
31. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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