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1.A man, a mop, a year, and an app (thestartuptoolkit.com)
257 points by robfitz on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
2.Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (newscientist.com)
242 points by p4bl0 on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
3.Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
234 points by michael_nielsen on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
4. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
4.6 month read-through/discussion of GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach starting 1/17 on Reddit (reddit.com)
228 points by qrush on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
5.Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student (pennyhacks.com)
214 points by brudolph on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
6.Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less (devttys0.com)
160 points by sbierwagen on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
7. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
7.Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript (stackoverflow.com)
159 points by smharris65 on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
8.The Coming War on General Purpose Computation (boingboing.net)
157 points by jamesbritt on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader (subpug.com)
153 points by spxdcz on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.Multiple programming languages vulnerable to DoS via hash algorithm collision (ocert.org)
152 points by kmfrk on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
11.Darts, Dice, and Coins: A beautiful article on a beautiful algorithm (keithschwarz.com)
145 points by robrenaud on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
12.Its raining Haskell (msdn.com)
133 points by implmentor on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
13. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.One congressman's opposition to SOPA worth noting (securityskeptic.typepad.com)
123 points by gapanalysis on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
14.Engineer wins $1.9 million in "wrongful hire" suit against Seagate. (hirecentrix.com)
118 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
15.On (Startup) Chile (hervalicio.us)
119 points by ew on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
16. Your Suppliers Are Your Cheapest Growth Channel β€” Within Limits ()
292 points by atz2712 787 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.So You Want to Save the World (lesswrong.com)
112 points by inetsee on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
17.URI.js is a facility for working with URLs (medialize.github.com)
109 points by wslh on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
18.Parse Powered iOS Table Views: Remote Data Driven Tables in Minutes (parse.com)
94 points by jamesjyu on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 11 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us (nytimes.com)
92 points by tysone on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
20.Infographic examples, ca. 1920s (creativereview.co.uk)
92 points by jschuur on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
21.Photographers: Please Stop Using Flash (ohnozen.posterous.com)
87 points by ohnoes on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
22. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
22.PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month (highscalability.com)
86 points by yarapavan on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept) (self.li)
86 points by legierski on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
24.There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript (sarajchipps.com)
82 points by johns on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
25. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
25.British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot (bbc.co.uk)
80 points by shreex on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
26.Design Patterns in Python (Free Book) (testingperspective.com)
80 points by okal on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
27.Ember.js Live Collections (awardwinningfjords.com)
75 points by wycats on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
28. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
28.Clojure & Java Interop (jayfields.com)
64 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
29.Abstraction makes us stupid at business (thestartuptoolkit.com)
63 points by minecraftman on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
30.Merchant Says Amazon Sabotaged Its Business (wsj.com)
58 points by FluidDjango on Dec 28, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
31. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments

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