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1.Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer (learncodethehardway.org)
670 points by twampss on May 15, 2012 | 218 comments
2.Please Learn to Code (sachagreif.com)
654 points by sgdesign on May 15, 2012 | 146 comments
3.OpenShift by Red Hat (redhat.com)
329 points by kragniz on May 15, 2012 | 112 comments
4.GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account (forbes.com/sites/joannmuller)
308 points by gscott on May 15, 2012 | 257 comments
5.Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu (wilwheaton.typepad.com)
288 points by macco on May 15, 2012 | 163 comments
๐Ÿ“š. The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets (jbecker.dev)
13 min read | by Jonathan Becker | saved 66 days ago | archive
6.On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code (gist.github.com)
206 points by esmooov on May 15, 2012 | 60 comments
7.WTFWG (timkadlec.com)
205 points by jacobr on May 15, 2012 | 36 comments
8.My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe (designspark.com)
198 points by revorad on May 15, 2012 | 65 comments
9.Steve Ballmer's Microsoft (dcurt.is)
179 points by lleims on May 15, 2012 | 117 comments
10.Android Fragmentation Visualized (opensignalmaps.com)
168 points by sinak on May 15, 2012 | 84 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Six Principles for Production AI Agents (app.build)
8 min read | by Arseni Kravchenko | saved 241 days ago | archive
11.Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says (yahoo.com)
157 points by bitops on May 15, 2012 | 83 comments
12.Google Green - The Story of Send (google.com)
142 points by mayanksinghal on May 15, 2012 | 60 comments
13.Memory Reordering Caught in the Act (preshing.com)
137 points by jenhsun on May 15, 2012 | 32 comments
14.2012 Salary Guide for Creative and Technology Professionals [pdf] (amazonaws.com)
131 points by uptown on May 15, 2012 | 90 comments
15.Focus.py (amoffat.github.com)
112 points by _ikke_ on May 15, 2012 | 57 comments
๐Ÿ“š. The AI Whateverpocalypse Trade (archive.is)
18 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 20 days ago | 22% read | archive
16.PostgreSQL 9.2 beta adds JSON (h-online.com)
108 points by voodoochilo on May 15, 2012 | 24 comments
17.What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education (gametheorist.blogspot.co.uk)
108 points by pooya72 on May 15, 2012 | 41 comments
18.This is probably why everyone still relies on Google (robotmay.com)
105 points by _ompc on May 15, 2012 | 38 comments
19.CSS-Only Clickjacking (jsfiddle.net)
104 points by flexterra on May 15, 2012 | 35 comments
20.Why I Desperately Needed to Learn to Code (influencehacks.com)
104 points by gregp on May 15, 2012 | 23 comments
๐Ÿ“š. How Jitse Groen Won (linkedin.com)
5 min read | by Adrian Blair | saved 349 days ago | 79% read | archive
21.A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity (nytimes.com)
101 points by ckuehne on May 15, 2012 | 92 comments
22.Observing traffic prioritization in Comcastโ€™s network (ber.gd)
104 points by dalton on May 15, 2012 | 27 comments
23.CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (forbes.com/sites/adamhartung)
97 points by asto on May 15, 2012 | 95 comments
24.Underscores are stupid (avdi.org)
95 points by raganwald on May 15, 2012 | 127 comments
25.Facebookโ€™s business model (cdixon.org)
95 points by lleims on May 15, 2012 | 55 comments
๐Ÿ“š. From Memo to Movement: (firstround.com)
14 min read | by firstround.com | saved 226 days ago | archive
26.Plagiarism, the plot thickens (jacquesmattheij.com)
93 points by llambda on May 15, 2012 | 12 comments
27.Hereโ€™s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro) (mobtest.com)
91 points by dirkdk on May 15, 2012 | 61 comments
28.Quora's $50 million (dcurt.is)
87 points by kreutz on May 15, 2012 | 57 comments
29.If you're seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware (wikimedia.org)
84 points by vgnet on May 15, 2012 | 31 comments
30.Full Distributed Teams: are they viable? (pixelmonkey.org)
84 points by sak84 on May 15, 2012 | 54 comments
๐Ÿ“š. People Are Worried About Blue Owl Liquidity (archive.is)
16 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 20 days ago | archive

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