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1.
Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works (informationdiet.com)
681 points by cjoh on Dec 19, 2011 | 157 comments
2.
The Bomb That Changed My Life (swombat.com)
460 points by shadowsun7 on Dec 19, 2011 | 83 comments
3.
Why is Windows so slow? (greggman.com)
337 points by kristianp on Dec 19, 2011 | 153 comments
4.
N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies (bbc.co.uk)
327 points by josscrowcroft on Dec 19, 2011 | 83 comments
5.
How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in the valley') (trapm.com)
245 points by sgrove on Dec 19, 2011 | 171 comments
6.
CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning (github.com/raganwald)
218 points by llambda on Dec 19, 2011 | 124 comments
7.
MITx positions to offer certification for completing courses online (web.mit.edu)
203 points by troyastorino on Dec 19, 2011 | 42 comments
8.
Unfortunate Python (excess.org)
194 points by webexcess on Dec 19, 2011 | 55 comments
9.
List of best free online learning sites (reddit.com)
145 points by vijayr on Dec 19, 2011 | 13 comments
10.
What are the lesser known but cool data structures? (stackoverflow.com)
133 points by llambda on Dec 19, 2011 | 54 comments
11.
How games cheat to help players (robotinvader.com)
131 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 19, 2011 | 45 comments
12.
Finance for Geeks (ericsink.com)
118 points by seanlinmt on Dec 19, 2011 | 34 comments
13.
Productizing Twilio Applications (kalzumeus.com)
121 points by joshuacc on Dec 19, 2011 | 33 comments
14.
Google pays $18 million to shutter Apture, CloudFlare clones it in 12 hours (thenextweb.com)
118 points by jgrahamc on Dec 19, 2011 | 75 comments
15.
AT&T Drops T-Mobile USA Deal (wsj.com)
114 points by marklabedz on Dec 19, 2011 | 74 comments
16.
Building StatHat with Go (golang.org)
106 points by mdwrigh2 on Dec 19, 2011 | 25 comments
17.
Visualizing Device Utilization (dtrace.org)
110 points by timf on Dec 19, 2011 | 4 comments
18.
How To Learn About Everything (metamodern.com)
95 points by parallel on Dec 19, 2011 | 8 comments
19.
Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year (googleblog.blogspot.com)
94 points by nidennet on Dec 19, 2011 | 51 comments
20.
I miss w (torrez.org)
89 points by phil on Dec 19, 2011 | 30 comments
21.
Why there might not be enough Raspberry Pi to go around (thesinglestep.org)
88 points by noonespecial on Dec 19, 2011 | 28 comments
22.
San Francisco team wins paper shredder puzzle prize (sfgate.com)
85 points by SystemOut on Dec 19, 2011 | 15 comments
23.
Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (cnet.com)
85 points by jamesjyu on Dec 19, 2011 | 26 comments
24.
Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter (google.com)
82 points by pastr on Dec 19, 2011 | 45 comments
25.
Apple Lossless Decoder in Coffeescript (github.com/ofmlabs)
81 points by jensnockert on Dec 19, 2011 | 23 comments
26.
Attacking NoSQL and Node.js: Server-Side JavaScript Injection (SSJS) (mypopescu.com)
76 points by EwanToo on Dec 19, 2011 | 35 comments
27.
Patriot Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business (arstechnica.com)
78 points by Yoanna_Savova on Dec 19, 2011 | 9 comments
28.
Response to 'I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art' (splinter.com.au)
77 points by chubs on Dec 19, 2011 | 26 comments
29.
From Drug Trafficker to Start-Up CEO (wsj.com)
76 points by benry on Dec 19, 2011 | 8 comments
30.
Why your startup should never release numbers (giftrocket.com)
75 points by kapilkale on Dec 19, 2011 | 22 comments

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