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Stories from December 21, 2011
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1.Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed. (reddit.com)
322 points by zackattack on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
2.John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language (ejohn.org)
306 points by fogus on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
3.Smoke Screening: Journalist tests TSA (vanityfair.com)
293 points by Umalu on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
4. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
4.All Programmers Are Self-Taught (jgneuf.wordpress.com)
247 points by jgn on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
5.Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby (hungryacademy.com)
254 points by jeremymcanally on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
6.Bingo Card Creator (etc) Year In Review 2011 (kalzumeus.com)
221 points by joshuacc on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
7. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service (paulstamatiou.com)
203 points by PStamatiou on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
8.Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University (lambdassociates.org)
187 points by jackfoxy on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
9.Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit (netmagazine.com)
187 points by riledhel on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
10. Why you care for your dog better than yourself β€” and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
10.Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 Billion (nytimes.com)
143 points by ask995 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
11.Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear (techcrunch.com)
131 points by csmajorfive on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
12.700,000 Android devices activated each day (plus.google.com)
120 points by arron61 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston (mixergy.com)
116 points by pospischil on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
14.Nest thermostat teardown (sparkfun.com)
107 points by nabilt on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
15.Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry (bloomberg.com)
106 points by zaveri on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.The Golden Age of the Developer (kernelmag.com)
89 points by dchs on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
17.What to Look For in PHP 5.4 (jburrows.wordpress.com)
86 points by robmorgan on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
18.Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid? (arstechnica.com)
86 points by evo_9 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
19. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
19.WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol (lenholgate.com)
68 points by saurabh on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
20.Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either (searchengineland.com)
77 points by B-Scan on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
21.Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials (ottawacitizen.com)
77 points by pg on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
22. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
22.Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate (inc.com)
76 points by riffraff on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
23.Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice" (europa.eu)
72 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
24.Build your own web search engine (himmele.blogspot.com)
70 points by DanielHimmelein on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
25. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
25.Where are all those Galaxy Nexus subpixels? (geek.com)
60 points by adeelarshad82 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
26.Sending holiday cards, but I don't have addresses, so I made SendSpree (sendspree.com)
59 points by colevscode on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
27.DOJ takes bloggers laptops over reader comments left at Wordpress hosted blog (financialpost.com)
56 points by doj_seizure on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28."Lifestyle" CEO bootstraps business to 30 MM unique visitors: The wikiHow story (xconomy.com)
58 points by Krystle on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
29.Investors In Our $400,000 Seed Round And How We Met Them (bufferapp.com)
55 points by LeonW on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
30.Hacking Minecraft into WebGL (metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com)
52 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
31. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments

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