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1.
Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time (mathalicious.com)
274 points by skrebbel on Feb 5, 2012 | 179 comments
2.
Udacity to offer entire CS curriculum, certifications to obtain a degree online (plus.google.com)
225 points by dhawalhs on Feb 5, 2012 | 115 comments
3.
The sociology of drinking (gladwell.com)
219 points by overgard on Feb 5, 2012 | 39 comments
4.
Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5 (turnjs.com)
213 points by blasten on Feb 5, 2012 | 79 comments
5.
Let's Build an MP3 Decoder (bjrn.se)
201 points by petercooper on Feb 5, 2012 | 24 comments
6.
Facebook Is Using You (nytimes.com)
193 points by charlie_joslin on Feb 5, 2012 | 62 comments
7.
More damaging evidence on open plan offices (thesoundagency.com)
173 points by ColinWright on Feb 5, 2012 | 132 comments
8.
A swarm of micro-quadcopters (hackaday.com)
167 points by m_for_monkey on Feb 5, 2012 | 42 comments
9.
Automate Everything - the hacker way (tomblomfield.com)
146 points by tomblomfield on Feb 5, 2012 | 48 comments
10.
Show HN: JavaScript Instagram-like Filters (github.com/alexmic)
127 points by alexmic on Feb 5, 2012 | 27 comments
11.
It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web (scobleizer.com)
124 points by minecraftman on Feb 5, 2012 | 68 comments
12.
With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits (cnn.com)
103 points by csomar on Feb 5, 2012 | 67 comments
13.
How I learned to stop worrying and love REST (mikemayo.org)
81 points by johns on Feb 5, 2012 | 32 comments
14.
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (utexas.edu)
78 points by VMG on Feb 5, 2012 | 31 comments
15.
Earle/django-bootstrap - GitHub (github.com/earle)
72 points by superchink on Feb 5, 2012 | 13 comments
16.
Show HN: My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome) (heroku.com)
70 points by sjtgraham on Feb 5, 2012 | 28 comments
17.
Why Do Cells Age? Extremely Long-Lived Proteins (sciencedaily.com)
69 points by llambda on Feb 5, 2012 | 52 comments
18.
Site banned from AdSense restored after appeal to regulator (theage.com.au)
66 points by prawn on Feb 5, 2012 | 36 comments
19.
The strange case of the inverted chart (lesswrong.com)
65 points by gjm11 on Feb 5, 2012 | 14 comments
20.
Transparent Multi-Hop SSH (sourceforge.net)
63 points by notmyname on Feb 5, 2012 | 7 comments
21.
RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
59 points by kaeso on Feb 5, 2012 | 11 comments
22.
Haskell's effect on my C++ : exploit the type system (vallettaventures.com)
57 points by steeleduncan on Feb 5, 2012 | 54 comments
23.
Internet-Draft: A Convention for HTTP Access to JSON Resources (ietf.org)
56 points by jkbr on Feb 5, 2012 | 12 comments
24.
Speed running web games with Python (youtu.be)
50 points by googletron on Feb 5, 2012 | 10 comments
25.
Why using anchors as buttons sucks (plus.google.com)
50 points by tkazec on Feb 5, 2012 | 26 comments
26.
83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible (adafruit.com)
50 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 5, 2012 | 10 comments
27.
A Solution to CPU-intensive Tasks in IO Loops (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
46 points by pors on Feb 5, 2012 | 23 comments
28.
Go 1 Beta App Engine SDK now available (groups.google.com)
43 points by luriel on Feb 5, 2012 | 4 comments
29.
The Haskell road to logic review (arxiv.org)
42 points by wslh on Feb 5, 2012 | 10 comments
30.
Over the Hill at 35 (takimag.com)
42 points by billswift on Feb 5, 2012 | 60 comments

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