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1.The nightmarish SOPA hearings (washingtonpost.com)
592 points by elliottcarlson on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
2.I'm starting to think LEGO is evil (sinker.tumblr.com)
398 points by Sukotto on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 283 comments [ext]
3.Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent (uspto.gov)
245 points by meadhikari on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
4. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
4.Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber (theverge.com)
241 points by divy on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
5.Linux flavors and derivatives tree (futurist.se)
229 points by jacquesm on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
6.Bug Prediction at Google (google-engtools.blogspot.com)
216 points by nl on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
7. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
7.Sergey Brin, et al. to U.S. Government: Do Not Emulate These Oppressive Nations (greyreview.com)
208 points by zhiQ on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
8.The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal (learncodethehardway.org)
204 points by goodweeds on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
9.Report: Iran Hacked, Hijacked U.S. Drone (csmonitor.com)
202 points by thematt on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
10. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
10.Hacking Google for Fun and Profit (andrewcantino.com)
184 points by tectonic on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
11.Live video of House SOPA hearing (house.gov)
162 points by alex1 on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
12.Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree (arstechnica.com)
163 points by gldalmaso on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.Metaclasses in Python (stackoverflow.com)
158 points by fogus on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
14.It’s Instant (dwolla.com)
151 points by sant0sk1 on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
15.Riak Handbook (riakhandbook.com)
147 points by jeremymcanally on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
16. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
16.Fake App Becomes Real (techcrunch.com)
133 points by davislover on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
17.Strangest Language Features (stackoverflow.com)
129 points by antoviaque on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
18.Why big companies fail to keep talent (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)
119 points by vm on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
19. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
19.French President’s Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
118 points by llambda on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
20.Startup escape path (swombat.com)
117 points by tomh- on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
21.Canonical to remove all Sun JDK packages from the Partner archive (ubuntu.com)
115 points by smn on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
22. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
22.Billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-founders? (designerfund.com)
129 points by quique on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
23.Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version) (browserfame.com)
113 points by twapi on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
24. Understanding lvalues and rvalues in C and C++ (thegreenplace.net)
100 points by wglb on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
25. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
25.Windows Live Messenger supports XMPP (windowsteamblog.com)
96 points by mweibel on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
26.Learn Knockout.js in 30 minutes (knockoutjs.com)
95 points by aymeric on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
27.Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers (danwin.com)
92 points by danso on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
28. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
28.How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain (betashop.com)
89 points by betashop on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil (aws.typepad.com)
86 points by jeffbarr on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
30.Map of CPAN (mapofcpan.org)
80 points by Phra on Dec 15, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
31. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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