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1.Norway is building thorium reactor (smartplanet.com)
231 points by sasoon on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
2.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012) [ext]
227 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 284 comments [ext]
3.Microsoft releases tool for creating Windows 8 apps in the browser (touchdevelop.com)
175 points by kyriakos on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.Poll: What's your favorite static site generator? [ext]
158 points by diggan on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
5.A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth (slate.com)
153 points by munishdayal on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
6.Netflix open sources resilience engineering library (github.com/netflix)
148 points by jondot on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.A static website generator in Python (github.com/koenbok)
140 points by pajju on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
8.Taleb: The future will not be cool (salon.com)
133 points by mck- on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
9.Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company (pandodaily.com)
133 points by guiambros on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
10. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.A tour of the world in d3.js (ocks.org)
116 points by r4vik on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
11.Drone crashes mount at civilian airports (washingtonpost.com)
103 points by stfu on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
12.Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist? [ext]
86 points by asher_ on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
13. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
13.My Raspberry Pi WordPress server survived the front page of Hacker News (vo3.net)
86 points by jstalin on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
14.Ruby 2.0.0-preview2 released (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
84 points by haileys on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
15.Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012) [ext]
96 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
16. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
16.CEOs Don’t Come Pre-Made. Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned (techcrunch.com)
78 points by krutal on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
17.The Organism Will Do What It Pleases (codinghorror.com)
72 points by stalled on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
18.San Francisco can become a world capital. First it needs to get over itself (pandodaily.com)
68 points by jejune06 on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Ask HN: Who is meeting up? (December 2012) [ext]
68 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
20.The Nexus 4 is a dud (plus.google.com)
61 points by nkoren on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
21.Multitasking makes you dumb (sirupsen.com)
59 points by joeyespo on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
22. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
22.From H.P., a Blunder That Seems to Beat All (nytimes.com)
57 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
23.American Higher Education: Not what it used to be (economist.com)
54 points by kartman on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
24.Zynga Stock Dives as Facebook Keeps Backing Away (wired.com)
51 points by lleims on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
25. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
25.Can Art be Games? (sophiehoulden.com)
51 points by muratmutlu on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.Speak Up - Speaking mentorship (speakup.io)
51 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Free UI PSDs for Smartphones (1stwebdesigner.com)
51 points by alok-g on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.Is Python The New Basic? ("Python For Kids") (scienceblogs.com)
49 points by modernise on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
29.Technology giants at war (economist.com)
48 points by bergie on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
30.HackPad is expanding its reach, maybe even to the White House (pandodaily.com)
47 points by kunle on Dec 1, 2012 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
31. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments

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