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1.Trolls (2008) (paulgraham.com)
360 points by evo_9 on Dec 14, 2011 | 303 comments
2.The real reason you can't hire developers....
324 points by up_and_up on Dec 14, 2011 | 266 comments
3.Nvidia Opens CUDA Platform, Releases Compiler Source Code (nvidia.com)
302 points by Garbage on Dec 14, 2011 | 28 comments
4.From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours (golang.org)
274 points by enneff on Dec 14, 2011 | 73 comments
5.Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (hanselman.com)
226 points by yread on Dec 14, 2011 | 81 comments
6.Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class (pastebin.com)
201 points by mlacitation on Dec 14, 2011 | 111 comments
7.New Blender 3D with Motion Tracking, new rendering engine, dynamic paint (blender.org)
191 points by steren on Dec 14, 2011 | 49 comments
8.Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web (hanselman.com)
163 points by joeyespo on Dec 14, 2011 | 70 comments
9.HTTP Cats (httpcats.herokuapp.com)
150 points by chrisguitarguy on Dec 14, 2011 | 30 comments
10.Things Highly Productive People Do (inc.com)
147 points by kirpekar on Dec 14, 2011 | 43 comments
11.Elevator Algorithms (lisazhang.ca)
144 points by signa11 on Dec 14, 2011 | 71 comments
12.Python co-routines: follow-up to Python generators presentation [pdf] (dabeaz.com)
134 points by irahul on Dec 14, 2011 | 14 comments
13.When Banks Use Facebook Friends To Determine Your Credit Score (betabeat.com)
128 points by kunle on Dec 14, 2011 | 152 comments
14.Writers Guild Realizes That SOPA Goes Too Far (techdirt.com)
123 points by nextparadigms on Dec 14, 2011 | 18 comments
15.The Real Story Behind Apple's 'Think Different' Campaign (forbes.com/sites/onmarketing)
118 points by username3 on Dec 14, 2011 | 40 comments
16.EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ (eff.org)
115 points by Tomek_ on Dec 14, 2011 | 9 comments
17.How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries (eff.org)
108 points by llambda on Dec 14, 2011 | 1 comment
18.Erlang R15B Released (erlang.org)
108 points by chops on Dec 14, 2011 | 21 comments
19.Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches (space.com)
104 points by sasvari on Dec 14, 2011 | 76 comments
20.Don't put BASIC code in your emails (pastebin.com)
101 points by exupero on Dec 14, 2011 | 28 comments
21.Introducing Palantir's first open source releases (palantir.com)
105 points by regs on Dec 14, 2011 | 37 comments
22.The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water (bbc.co.uk)
97 points by eftpotrm on Dec 14, 2011 | 126 comments
23.On Intellectual Dishonesty (aaronsw.com)
92 points by wglb on Dec 14, 2011 | 34 comments
24.Reversing Industrial Firmware for Fun and Backdoors I (reversemode.com)
86 points by Devko on Dec 14, 2011 | 23 comments
25.The Milky Way's black hole may spring to life in 2013 (arstechnica.com)
85 points by evo_9 on Dec 14, 2011 | 43 comments
26.Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing (atomicobject.com)
82 points by micahalles on Dec 14, 2011 | 20 comments
27.Research Tools class (unh.edu)
75 points by rkda on Dec 14, 2011 | 8 comments
28.Russian space designer Boris Chertok dies at 99 (yahoo.com)
66 points by ukdm on Dec 14, 2011 | 4 comments
29.Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly RadarĀ  (oreilly.com)
65 points by rkda on Dec 14, 2011 | 8 comments
30.Apple to set up first dev center outside of CA in Israel (globes.co.il)
51 points by maayank on Dec 14, 2011 | 44 comments

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