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1.Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old (npr.org)
461 points by weinzierl on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 301 comments [ext]
2.GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes (igurublog.wordpress.com)
258 points by EdiX on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
3.I am a terrible programmer (danshipper.com)
245 points by ScotterC on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
4. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
4.Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B (thenextweb.com)
244 points by goatcurious on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
5.More HTML5 APIs (davidwalsh.name)
220 points by davidwalshblog on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
6.Jam With Chrome (jamwithchrome.com)
220 points by robin_reala on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
7. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
7.Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet (playbuildy.com)
214 points by RoboTeddy on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
8.Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Millisecond After Detonation (petapixel.com)
180 points by ColinWright on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
9.The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing (fastcompany.com)
163 points by julianwa on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
10. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 21 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Procrastination’s Ass (seangransee.com)
163 points by seangransee on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
11.Nexus 4 Review: Beautifully Crafted, Premium Android Phone (androidpolice.com)
163 points by mtgx on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
12.NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon (space.com)
162 points by geuis on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
13. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
13.E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years (enlightenment.org)
151 points by stock_toaster on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
14.ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS (twilio.com)
159 points by chadrs on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
15.For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change (arstechnica.com)
145 points by jojomnky on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
16. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
16.The Best Time to Post on Hacker News (hevenet.com)
138 points by Nathanael on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
17.Humble Bundle 4 for android (humblebundle.com)
135 points by ergo14 on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
18.Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move (theregister.co.uk)
131 points by tawman on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
19. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
19.Bounce ball camera to help first responders (bounceimaging.com)
129 points by dsego on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
20.Jewish Problems (arxiv.org)
115 points by victorhn on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
21.Typography Spacing Research (aldusleaf.org)
109 points by jashmenn on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Building 'From Holden', an apparel manufacturer, from the ground up (fromholden.com)
111 points by freerobby on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
23.Why the hell does this mouse need to connect to the Internet? (arstechnica.com)
105 points by SeanDav on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
24.Kernel Drivers Compiled to Javascript and Run in Browser (netbsd.org)
91 points by mburns on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
25. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
25.PyCon US 2013 adds 6th talk track (pycon.blogspot.com)
87 points by jnoller on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
26.Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner (acm.org)
87 points by ivoflipse on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
27.F# Foundation Launch : Open-source, cross-platform F# (1PM PST/9PM GMT Today) (msdn.com)
85 points by Oenotria on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
28. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
28.CheckIO - a programming game (checkio.org)
84 points by duck on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
29.High blood pressure damages brain long before old age (latimes.com)
82 points by whoisnicole on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
30.Making something people want - the GoCardless story (tomblomfield.com)
82 points by tomblomfield on Nov 8, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
31. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments

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