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1.A Womanโ€™s Story (raganwald.posterous.com)
716 points by raganwald on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
2.The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men (techcitement.com)
629 points by d2vid on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 196 comments [ext]
3.Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation? [ext]
546 points by jader201 on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 192 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.From MIT, a cure for all viruses? (process.org)
426 points by MRonney on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
5.Batman's Real Story (washingtonpost.com)
400 points by philco on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
6.Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later (geek.com)
392 points by ukdm on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.Paper (fiftythree.com)
392 points by mynameisraj on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
8.GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. (therwp.com)
241 points by emillon on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
9.Canada ditches the penny (globaltvedmonton.com)
238 points by codergirl on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
10. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.My First Passive Income Project, One Year Later (sparklewise.com)
229 points by toumhi on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
11.A Better Strategy for Hangman (datagenetics.com)
215 points by icefox on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
12.Matz wins the 2011 Free Software Award (fsf.org)
207 points by ab9 on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
13. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas (ardenthoughts.tumblr.com)
179 points by _z0jz on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
14.200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset (aws.typepad.com)
173 points by bbgm on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
15.IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network (networkworld.com)
149 points by fr0sty on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
16. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
16.Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity (thewebivore.com)
151 points by pselle on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
17.Why You Don't Need A Programmer (thinkopen.ly)
146 points by bendingoutward on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
18.Learn to Pick Locks for Fun and an Increased Understanding of Security (lifehacker.com)
144 points by wqfeng on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Ze Frank's Kickstarter post-mortem (zefrank.tumblr.com)
131 points by revorad on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
20.Visualizing Code to Fail Faster (codinghorror.com)
117 points by dko on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
21.LG begins mass production of first flexible e-ink displays (extremetech.com)
113 points by mrsebastian on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
22. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
22.Star Trek's tricorder comes to life (tricorderproject.org)
107 points by zrgiu_ on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
23.Marketing 101 for developers (myasmine.com)
107 points by myasmine on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
24.Use Vim with Google Docs (milford.io)
104 points by jsalinas on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
25.I'm sick to death of Android (zdnet.com)
102 points by colinprince on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
26.Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses (techcrunch.com)
99 points by wglb on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
27.Svbtle for Wordpress (gravityonmars.com)
93 points by ricardorauch on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
28. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO out (bgr.com)
89 points by CitiiDB on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
29.FamilyLeaf's (YC W12) Y Combinator Application (techcrunch.com)
81 points by wesleyzhao on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
30.For-Profit University Sets $199-a-Month Tuition for Online Courses (chronicle.com)
71 points by ilamont on March 29, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
31. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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