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1.How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime (theatlanticcities.com)
270 points by gruseom on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
2.Planes overhead (wolframalpha.com)
245 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
3.HTML5 terminal (htmlfivewow.com)
184 points by arunabh on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
4. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble (fastcompany.com)
170 points by d_r on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
5.Flash is dead. Long live the internet. (deconcept.com)
152 points by tensafefrogs on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
6.It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too (adobe.com)
121 points by bithavoc on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
7. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
7.Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy (google.com)
117 points by Concours on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
8.Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream (bittorrent.com)
115 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
9.The Philosophy of Computer Science (uva.nl)
107 points by ahmicro on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
10. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
10.Nodejs+Fabric as fast as multi-threaded C++ (fabric-engine.com)
102 points by FabricPaul on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
11.Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS (9to5mac.com)
97 points by Anon84 on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
12.This 28-year-old's Iowa startup moves $350 million a year. (businessinsider.com)
92 points by anandkulkarni on Nov 12, 2011 [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.Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins (begriffsschrift.com)
84 points by begriffs on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
14.These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For (wired.com)
81 points by evo_9 on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
15.Steganography with Brainfuck (imrannazar.com)
75 points by Two9A on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 13 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.Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change...there's the door (plus.google.com)
75 points by kayluhb on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
17.Why do so many technical recruiters suck? (mikebz.com)
72 points by ezxs on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online (steampowered.com)
72 points by alexanderswang on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
19. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Stalking a person with only their email & IP address (attackvector.org)
66 points by hartleybrody on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
20.Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic (everythingsysadmin.com)
66 points by progga on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010) (hbr.org)
61 points by _delirium on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 23 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
22.Announcing Firefox Aurora 10 (hacks.mozilla.org)
55 points by maratd on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
23.A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression (gailly.net)
50 points by seagaia on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.Hypothes.is: Taking peer review to the Internet (kickstarter.com)
46 points by tilgovi on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
25.ARM touts PlayStation 3 power in a mobile GPU (arstechnica.com)
37 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
26.Stop Making Apps (techcrunch.com)
37 points by hypr_geek on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
27.How Strong is a Chimpanzee? (slate.com)
31 points by suprgeek on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
28.Why Science Requires Theories (psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com)
29 points by saulrh on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
29.Burt Rutan Is Up To Something… (wired.com)
28 points by bootload on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
30.Making Your Tech Conference Presentation, and Experience, Not Suck (softwarequalityconnection.com)
27 points by progga on Nov 12, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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