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1.
Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want" (cardsagainsthumanity.com)
549 points by thaumaturgy on Dec 17, 2012 | 162 comments
2.
Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0 (kennethreitz.org)
386 points by jorde on Dec 17, 2012 | 86 comments
3.
Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville (erniemiller.org)
326 points by emiller829 on Dec 17, 2012 | 187 comments
4.
Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5 (sencha.com)
313 points by steffenhiller on Dec 17, 2012 | 162 comments
5.
Doing Game Gravity Right (hut.fi)
296 points by Charles__L on Dec 17, 2012 | 81 comments
6.
Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor (scratchpad.io)
298 points by brycecolquitt on Dec 17, 2012 | 82 comments
7.
Why 256 bit keys are large enough (security.stackexchange.com)
281 points by mef on Dec 17, 2012 | 133 comments
8.
Indiana Jones journal mystery solved (uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com)
229 points by CesareBorgia on Dec 17, 2012 | 47 comments
9.
List of data science and machine learning resources (conductrics.com)
197 points by seats on Dec 17, 2012 | 15 comments
10.
The Lambda Calculus (stanford.edu)
177 points by infinity on Dec 17, 2012 | 25 comments
11.
Humble Beginnings (alexmaccaw.com)
144 points by olivercameron on Dec 17, 2012 | 25 comments
12.
How to start with Backbone.js: A simple skeleton app (codeartists.com)
125 points by mihar on Dec 17, 2012 | 47 comments
13.
Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012 (forbes.com)
123 points by prayag on Dec 17, 2012 | 87 comments
14.
Why I learned to "make things" (37signals.com)
120 points by mh_ on Dec 17, 2012 | 32 comments
15.
The Fast Fourier Transform (jeremykun.wordpress.com)
116 points by signa11 on Dec 17, 2012 | 11 comments
16.
Modern math solves Ramanujan’s ‘vision’ - may clarify black holes (futurity.org)
115 points by mrkuchbhi on Dec 17, 2012 | 22 comments
17.
The Gift of Death (monbiot.com)
114 points by jcrei on Dec 17, 2012 | 63 comments
18.
Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes (jgc.org)
114 points by jgrahamc on Dec 17, 2012 | 37 comments
19.
Andreessen and Mixpanel Call for an End to “Bullshit Metrics” (allthingsd.com)
116 points by billclerico on Dec 17, 2012 | 36 comments
20.
Blekko donates search data to Common Crawl (blekko.com)
114 points by dwynings on Dec 17, 2012 | 36 comments
21.
The Internet Archive is trying to raise funds to buy 3 petabytes of storage (thenextweb.com)
111 points by napolux on Dec 17, 2012 | 14 comments
22.
The Flat Design Aesthetic (speckyboy.com)
107 points by sethbannon on Dec 17, 2012 | 60 comments
23.
Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social' (wifis.org)
103 points by Major_Grooves on Dec 17, 2012 | 57 comments
24.
"Gun" "Control" (techcrunch.com)
98 points by japaget on Dec 17, 2012 | 239 comments
25.
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches the Raspberry Pi Store (raspberrypi.com)
100 points by Ecio78 on Dec 17, 2012 | 29 comments
26.
Adafruit CEO Limor Fried named Entrepreneur magazine Entrepreneur of 2012 (instagram.com)
96 points by weld on Dec 17, 2012 | 65 comments
27.
I am Facebook friends with Ryan Lanza (salon.com)
93 points by evo_9 on Dec 17, 2012 | 98 comments
28.
Linux terminal keylogger in userspace (blogspot.com.ar)
93 points by vz0 on Dec 17, 2012 | 31 comments
29.
Interactive D3 tutorial (vogievetsky.github.com)
89 points by vikram360 on Dec 17, 2012 | 8 comments
30.
Passing the torch of NumPy and moving on to Blaze (technicaldiscovery.blogspot.ca)
91 points by cing on Dec 17, 2012 | 11 comments

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