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1.Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system (vicpolicenews.com.au)
361 points by bmmayer1 on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 220 comments [ext]
2.Gmail.com was down (mail.google.com)
307 points by sethbannon on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 300 comments [ext]
3.What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
233 points by dcope on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
4. Why Hitchhiking Taught Kevin Kelly a Theory of Grace (kk.org)
312 points by oan7422 99 days ago | hide | 83 comments
4.An office with "library rules" (37signals.com)
231 points by rkudeshi on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
5.The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library (falkvinge.net)
216 points by mtgx on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
6.Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mechanics (lostgarden.com)
211 points by DanBC on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas (techcrunch.com)
210 points by Jagat on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming (scattered-thoughts.net)
204 points by jamii on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
9.New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora (arduino.cc)
200 points by iamwil on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
10. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
10.Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage (highscalability.com)
187 points by jpmc on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
11.Get a review of your website. Launched today. (criticue.com)
180 points by bilus on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
12.A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999 (polygon.com)
175 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
13. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
13.Make a Donation to the Internet Archive (archive.org)
165 points by cleverjake on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
14.Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College Alums (williams.edu)
166 points by kafkaesque on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
15.Jun Fukuyama's P≠NP Page (junfukuyama.wordpress.com)
156 points by vznvzn on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
16. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
16.Startup ideas spreadsheet (docs.google.com)
145 points by igul222 on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
17.Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion (bloomberg.com)
119 points by cyphersanctus on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
18.Lovelace – The Origin (sydneypadua.com)
115 points by hamidr on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
19. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
19.Haskell Snap Framework templating 3000x faster with new release (snapframework.com)
114 points by LukeHoersten on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
20.25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours (arstechnica.com)
113 points by rayval on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
21.Local police post mugshots on Pinterest, leading to a 57% boost in arrests (thenextweb.com)
109 points by 1337biz on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
22. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
22.The Power of Negative Thinking (wsj.com)
108 points by lxm on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
23.Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS (elm-lang.org)
107 points by 6ren on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
24.Catfish hunt pigeons in France (tgdaily.com)
98 points by narad on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
25.Codemirror v3 released (codemirror.net)
94 points by bilalhusain on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
26.Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches (elezea.com)
93 points by pascal07 on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.iPhone App Review sites to email when you’re about to launch (mytangibles.tumblr.com)
92 points by iamjonlee on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
28. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
28.Things we did wrong as a startup (neiljoglekar.com)
90 points by njoglekar on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid (ragic.com)
82 points by longneckdeer on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
30.North Korea: On the net in world's most secretive nation (bbc.co.uk)
83 points by mih on Dec 10, 2012 [ext] | 51 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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