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1.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars (metro.co.uk)
321 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
2.Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago (snmaynard.com)
316 points by beastmcbeast on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
3.The Pirate Bay in the cloud (thepiratebay.se)
279 points by ponyous on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
4. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center (wired.com)
270 points by Hurdy on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
5.Meteor releases authentication, accounts system, and new screencast (meteor.com)
269 points by debergalis on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
6.Google's data centers are guarded by stormtroopers (maps.google.com)
257 points by jeffisageek on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.Making Yourself a CEO (bhorowitz.com)
221 points by FilterJoe on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
8.EC2 I/O (scalyr.com)
220 points by snewman on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
9.International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners (ioccc.org)
182 points by lelf on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
10. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof (torrentfreak.com)
148 points by anons2011 on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
11.Android 4.2 to include SE Linux and other security features (androidpolice.com)
145 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
12.The Courage To Say ‘I Don’t Know’ (wbur.org)
141 points by jordanmueller on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
13. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
13.Jack Dorsey: Let's Reconsider Our "Users" (jacks.tumblr.com)
142 points by hornokplease on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
14.SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket (flightglobal.com)
117 points by someperson on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
15.How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup (virool.com)
112 points by adebelov on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 65 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.PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea (theunraveler.com)
104 points by theunraveler on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
17.Run SQL on MongoDB (citusdata.com)
103 points by ozgune on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
18.Exoplanet found right next door in Alpha Centauri (arstechnica.com)
102 points by iProject on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 19 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.Do the police give more tickets at the end of the month to meet quotas? (robert.io)
104 points by rpicard on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
20.GOV.UK: new government site built with open source software, £70 million cheaper (cabinetoffice.gov.uk)
100 points by bfirsh on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.Django security releases issued (djangoproject.com)
95 points by jacobian on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 17 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.Windows System Exploit (megafrock.com)
92 points by maxdeliso on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.Bountify - Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
92 points by danabramov on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
24.My son's flashcard routine (bentilly.blogspot.com)
91 points by btilly on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
25. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Patent #7028023: Linked List (google.com)
90 points by yen223 on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
26.Python socket programming tutorial (binarytides.com)
88 points by silv3r_m00n on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
27.Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models (codeclimate.com)
85 points by lest on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
28. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
28.Software development final exam answers: Algorithms and Data Structures (daemonology.net)
90 points by cperciva on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
29.More trouble for Color: shareholders and board vote to wind down company (venturebeat.com)
72 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
30.Two years of Quicklisp (quicklisp.org)
73 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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