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Stories from October 4, 2011
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1.I Think Your App Should Be Free (earbits.com)
334 points by earbitscom on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
2.Node.js has jumped the shark (unlimitednovelty.com)
321 points by bascule on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
3.Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act" (wikipedia.org)
271 points by nextparadigms on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late (waxy.org)
244 points by planb on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
5.Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+ (theunderstatement.com)
214 points by thisisblurry on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
6.Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre. (schneier.com)
176 points by bdhe on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect (cmdrtaco.net)
163 points by CmdrTacoMalda on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
8.Kindle Fire pre-orders exceeding 2,000 per hour (geek.com)
161 points by ukdm on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
9.Knowing when to quit - an under-rated skill. (freakonomics.com)
159 points by ColinWright on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
10. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
10.A Tour of Go (go-tour.appspot.com)
131 points by mhd on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
11.Tilt-Shift Using CSS (simurai.com)
125 points by mikecane on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
12.US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA (arstechnica.com)
124 points by bdhe on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
13.Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog (engadget.com)
120 points by 6ren on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
14.Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research (inburke.com)
117 points by kevinburke on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
15.Apple Reveals Siri Voice Interface: The “Intelligent Assistant” (techcrunch.com)
116 points by llambda on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Did a reporter just solve the bitcoin mystery? (npr.org)
114 points by andrewpi on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
17.YC Application Checklist (apps due in 1 week) (giftrocket.com)
110 points by kapilkale on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
18.A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript (smashingmagazine.com)
107 points by aditiyaa1 on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
19. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
19.First Ride in Tesla Model S (aolautos.com)
102 points by russell on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
20.WebGL Endless Forest (moxiecode.com)
100 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
21.LibreOffice is one (computerworlduk.com)
98 points by gorglax on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
22. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Notch offered to not (tm) Scrolls etc, but Bethesda sue ahead anyway (notch.tumblr.com)
95 points by willvarfar on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
23.All numbers lead to one (jasondavies.com)
95 points by zeratul on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
24.Kickstarter threatened by business-method patent owner? (hollywoodreporter.com)
89 points by dctoedt on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25..Net Developer Shortage (techcrunch.com)
87 points by lapost1979 on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
26.The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 (nobelprize.org)
83 points by aarghh on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.About concurrency and the GIL (merbist.com)
82 points by telemachos on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
28. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.Lies, Damn Lies and Photoshop (timparkinson.net)
79 points by jedwhite on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
29.An Easy Way to Build Scalable Network Programs (nodejs.org)
81 points by tbassetto on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
30.The future of work: What happens when talent trumps capital? (crashdev.blogspot.com)
77 points by turoczy on Oct 4, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
31. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments

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