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1.Hacking ls -l (lemis.com)
199 points by drp4929 on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
2.Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery (npr.org)
166 points by iProject on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
3.0x10c (Notch's new game) (0x10c.com)
160 points by vasco on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.More people should write (jsomers.net)
150 points by jsomers on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
5.Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why? (fetzervalves.com)
150 points by jaybna on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
6.Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one (bbc.co.uk)
142 points by drucken on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
7. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
7.Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python (plus.google.com)
137 points by gits1225 on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
8.Suicide is Cheaper (geo-geek.blogspot.com.au)
124 points by Abundnce10 on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
9.Google Homepage Size Over Time (measuredmass.wordpress.com)
126 points by ISL on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 53 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.Solving the Multicore Dilemma (flowlang.net)
102 points by tel on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
11.How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World (vice.com)
101 points by robg on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
12.Asshole Driven Development (scottberkun.com)
102 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
13. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.The Three Pillars of Nokia's Strategy Have All Failed (communities-dominate.blogs.com)
101 points by wazoox on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
14.Helping you select a JS MV* framework (todomvc.com)
97 points by wiradikusuma on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
15.Git over FTP (github.com/resmo)
94 points by vinaykola on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
16. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
16.Symbian, a post-mortem (docs.google.com)
89 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
17.The Marshmallow Test Revisited (washingtonpost.com)
82 points by shazad on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
18.PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs (bloomberg.com)
85 points by pg on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company (semiaccurate.com)
78 points by tankenmate on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
20.When Academic Disagreement Becomes Harassment and Persecution (stanford.edu)
79 points by adrianhoward on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript (jpfau.github.com)
76 points by jpfau on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Reasons not to buy from Amazon (stallman.org)
73 points by tchalla on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
23.Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product (jayliew.com)
66 points by jayliew on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
24.Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk? (stackoverflow.com)
60 points by ivoflipse on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (falkvinge.net)
60 points by zoowar on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
26.In over my head. How can I work with more advanced programmers? (arstechnica.com)
59 points by chinmoy on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
27.Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving (springerlink.com)
59 points by bane on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 17 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
28.What the Heck Is CSS Specificity? (designshack.net)
55 points by codingthebeach on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
29.Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday (eff.org)
55 points by pwg on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
30.Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery (t3hprogrammer.github.com)
55 points by t3hprogrammer on Oct 13, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
31. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments

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