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1.Uses for cURL (httpkit.com)
339 points by KrisJordan on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
2.How to get your IP unbanned on HN [ext]
220 points by pg on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
3.The People's Bailout (howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com)
219 points by dorkitude on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 313 comments [ext]
4. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
4.Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown (arstechnica.com)
216 points by shawndumas on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 189 comments [ext]
5.The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org)
202 points by llambda on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
6.Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries (nytimes.com)
199 points by mhb on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
7. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 8 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
7.Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more (thenextweb.com)
184 points by derpenxyne on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
8.How to Detect a Toxic Customer (2010) (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.The UK Court Sanctions Apple, Hopes "Lack of Integrity" Is Not "Typical" (groklaw.net)
160 points by esolyt on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software (apebox.org)
159 points by slyall on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
11.Eight Years of Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
155 points by pragmatictester on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
12.An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app (computerworld.com)
142 points by CrankyBear on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
13. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Objective-C in The Cloud (objective-cloud.com)
132 points by marbletiles on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
14.Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election (floatingsheep.org)
127 points by nreece on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
15.Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell (defmacro.org)
116 points by llambda on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
16. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
16.What Programmers Want Is Less Stupid And More Programming (thecodist.com)
113 points by joeyespo on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
17. Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving. (rosalind.info)
109 points by nkurz on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
18.That'll Never Work (jgc.org)
111 points by jgrahamc on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer (nytimes.com)
107 points by nikunjk on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
20.Supreme Court of Canada Voids Viagra Patent for Insufficient Disclosure (michaelgeist.ca)
106 points by edj on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python (falcao.it)
97 points by gfalcao on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Was Nate Silver the Most Accurate 2012 Election Pundit? (appliedrationality.org)
97 points by kf on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
23.The Nuclear Scientist Who Skipped College (theatlantic.com)
96 points by sasvari on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
24.Redis data model and eventual consistency (antirez.com)
85 points by wglb on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
25. Inside Shopify's Multi-Year Playbook Behind Tobi Lütke's Viral AI Memo (firstround.com)
253 points by paz1543 250 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.Arduino Micro shrinks your favorite DIY platform down (engadget.com)
84 points by redDragon on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.Txtbirds (jsvine.com)
84 points by jsvine on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
27.dōmo: Markup, style, and code in one language (domo-js.com)
83 points by jedschmidt on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
28. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
28.Git push over XMPP (joeyh.name)
78 points by bokchoi on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.How I came to love big data (37signals.com)
71 points by ejpastorino on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
30.How a single person can make a huge difference to your startup in 24 hours (tray.io)
74 points by domlewis1 on Nov 9, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
31. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments

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