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1.
How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime (theatlanticcities.com)
270 points by gruseom on Nov 12, 2011 | 102 comments
2.
Planes overhead (wolframalpha.com)
245 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 | 83 comments
3.
HTML5 terminal (htmlfivewow.com)
184 points by arunabh on Nov 12, 2011 | 52 comments
4.
Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble (fastcompany.com)
170 points by d_r on Nov 12, 2011 | 91 comments
5.
Flash is dead. Long live the internet. (deconcept.com)
152 points by tensafefrogs on Nov 12, 2011 | 104 comments
6.
It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too (adobe.com)
121 points by bithavoc on Nov 12, 2011 | 67 comments
7.
Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy (google.com)
117 points by Concours on Nov 12, 2011 | 19 comments
8.
Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream (bittorrent.com)
115 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 12, 2011 | 39 comments
9.
The Philosophy of Computer Science (uva.nl)
107 points by ahmicro on Nov 12, 2011 | 14 comments
10.
Nodejs+Fabric as fast as multi-threaded C++ (fabric-engine.com)
102 points by FabricPaul on Nov 12, 2011 | 66 comments
11.
Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS (9to5mac.com)
97 points by Anon84 on Nov 12, 2011 | 73 comments
12.
This 28-year-old's Iowa startup moves $350 million a year. (businessinsider.com)
92 points by anandkulkarni on Nov 12, 2011 | 33 comments
13.
Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins (begriffsschrift.com)
84 points by begriffs on Nov 12, 2011 | 30 comments
14.
These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For (wired.com)
81 points by evo_9 on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
15.
Steganography with Brainfuck (imrannazar.com)
75 points by Two9A on Nov 12, 2011 | 13 comments
16.
Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change...there's the door (plus.google.com)
75 points by kayluhb on Nov 12, 2011 | 25 comments
17.
Why do so many technical recruiters suck? (mikebz.com)
72 points by ezxs on Nov 12, 2011 | 57 comments
18.
Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online (steampowered.com)
72 points by alexanderswang on Nov 12, 2011 | 40 comments
19.
Stalking a person with only their email & IP address (attackvector.org)
66 points by hartleybrody on Nov 12, 2011 | 31 comments
20.
Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic (everythingsysadmin.com)
66 points by progga on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
21.
The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010) (hbr.org)
61 points by _delirium on Nov 12, 2011 | 30 comments
22.
Announcing Firefox Aurora 10 (hacks.mozilla.org)
55 points by maratd on Nov 12, 2011 | 27 comments
23.
A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression (gailly.net)
50 points by seagaia on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
24.
Hypothes.is: Taking peer review to the Internet (kickstarter.com)
46 points by tilgovi on Nov 12, 2011 | 12 comments
25.
ARM touts PlayStation 3 power in a mobile GPU (arstechnica.com)
37 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 | 9 comments
26.
Stop Making Apps (techcrunch.com)
37 points by hypr_geek on Nov 12, 2011 | 11 comments
27.
How Strong is a Chimpanzee? (slate.com)
31 points by suprgeek on Nov 12, 2011 | 13 comments
28.
Why Science Requires Theories (psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com)
29 points by saulrh on Nov 12, 2011 | 8 comments
29.
Burt Rutan Is Up To Something… (wired.com)
28 points by bootload on Nov 12, 2011 | 16 comments
30.
Making Your Tech Conference Presentation, and Experience, Not Suck (softwarequalityconnection.com)
27 points by progga on Nov 12, 2011 | 4 comments

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