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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. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 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. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 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. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 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. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 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. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 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. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 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. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 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. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 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. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 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. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 14 hours ago | hide | 47 comments

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