| 1. | | Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed. (reddit.com) |
| 322 points by zackattack on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 157 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language (ejohn.org) |
| 306 points by fogus on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 216 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | Smoke Screening: Journalist tests TSA (vanityfair.com) |
| 293 points by Umalu on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 95 comments [ext] |
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The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph) |
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222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
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| 4. | | All Programmers Are Self-Taught (jgneuf.wordpress.com) |
| 247 points by jgn on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby (hungryacademy.com) |
| 254 points by jeremymcanally on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 165 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | Bingo Card Creator (etc) Year In Review 2011 (kalzumeus.com) |
| 221 points by joshuacc on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext] |
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A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu) |
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129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
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| 7. | | Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service (paulstamatiou.com) |
| 203 points by PStamatiou on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 9. | | Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit (netmagazine.com) |
| 187 points by riledhel on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext] |
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Why you care for your dog better than yourself β and the fix (web.archive.org) |
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420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 12. | | 700,000 Android devices activated each day (plus.google.com) |
| 120 points by arron61 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 89 comments [ext] |
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The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com) |
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271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 13. | | How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own β with Drew Houston (mixergy.com) |
| 116 points by pospischil on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Nest thermostat teardown (sparkfun.com) |
| 107 points by nabilt on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry (bloomberg.com) |
| 106 points by zaveri on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph) |
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469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
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| 16. | | The Golden Age of the Developer (kernelmag.com) |
| 89 points by dchs on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | What to Look For in PHP 5.4 (jburrows.wordpress.com) |
| 86 points by robmorgan on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid? (arstechnica.com) |
| 86 points by evo_9 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext] |
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Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com) |
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81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
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| 19. | | WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol (lenholgate.com) |
| 68 points by saurabh on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Dear Congress: Itβs 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] |
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| 21. | | Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials (ottawacitizen.com) |
| 77 points by pg on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 22. | | Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate (inc.com) |
| 76 points by riffraff on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 24. | | Build your own web search engine (himmele.blogspot.com) |
| 70 points by DanielHimmelein on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext] |
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Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com) |
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292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
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| 25. | | Where are all those Galaxy Nexus subpixels? (geek.com) |
| 60 points by adeelarshad82 on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com) |
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443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 30. | | Hacking Minecraft into WebGL (metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com) |
| 52 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 21, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext] |
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Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence () |
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215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
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