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1.
Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam (htmlist.com)
478 points by disillusioned on Dec 18, 2012 | 143 comments
2.
How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account (wired.com)
389 points by mtgx on Dec 18, 2012 | 146 comments
3.
Instagram's official response (blog.instagram.com)
334 points by kurtvarner on Dec 18, 2012 | 254 comments
4.
Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy (plus.google.com)
288 points by mtgx on Dec 18, 2012 | 133 comments
5.
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (msdn.com)
271 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 18, 2012 | 142 comments
6.
Whose bug is this anyway? (codeofhonor.com)
267 points by experiment0 on Dec 18, 2012 | 42 comments
7.
How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update) (lescapadou.com)
268 points by ja27 on Dec 18, 2012 | 116 comments
8.
Perl is 25 years old today (perl.org)
260 points by kamaal on Dec 18, 2012 | 130 comments
9.
The Real Silicon Valley (jfornear.co)
256 points by jfornear on Dec 18, 2012 | 148 comments
10.
The New Firebase Security API (firebase.com)
265 points by mayop100 on Dec 18, 2012 | 51 comments
11.
AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly (awe.sm)
226 points by brkcmd on Dec 18, 2012 | 85 comments
12.
Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] (googlecode.com)
218 points by daoudc on Dec 18, 2012 | 41 comments
13.
Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers (slate.com)
199 points by wslh on Dec 18, 2012 | 83 comments
14.
A Python Compiler for Big Data (continuum.io)
156 points by bluemoon on Dec 18, 2012 | 34 comments
15.
W3C finalizes HTML5 specification (w3.org)
154 points by experiment0 on Dec 18, 2012 | 25 comments
16.
Mozilla Game On (gameon.mozilla.org)
152 points by lee337 on Dec 18, 2012 | 34 comments
17.
How far has Microsoft fallen? (computerworld.com)
137 points by dmoney67 on Dec 18, 2012 | 150 comments
18.
Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says German Privacy Regulator (techcrunch.com)
138 points by iProject on Dec 18, 2012 | 93 comments
19.
Philosophy of Computer Science (stanford.edu)
118 points by FarhadG on Dec 18, 2012 | 22 comments
20.
2012: The year Rubyists learned to stop worrying and love threads (tonyarcieri.com)
99 points by bascule on Dec 18, 2012 | 26 comments
21.
Finding and Fixing a Five Second Stall (the-witness.net)
95 points by jamesmiller5 on Dec 18, 2012 | 37 comments
22.
Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy (bbc.co.uk)
83 points by tchalla on Dec 18, 2012 | 115 comments
23.
GitHub Game Off Winners (github.com/blog)
79 points by remi on Dec 18, 2012 | 17 comments
24.
Report: data caps just a “cash cow” for Internet providers (arstechnica.com)
79 points by Libertatea on Dec 18, 2012 | 43 comments
25.
Deploying New Image Formats on the Web (igvita.com)
79 points by igrigorik on Dec 18, 2012 | 5 comments
26.
A programmer’s guide to big data: tools to know (gigaom.com)
79 points by mwetzler on Dec 18, 2012 | 29 comments
27.
JQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide (jquery.com)
71 points by robin_reala on Dec 18, 2012 | 35 comments
28.
Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition (theatlantic.com)
67 points by speednoise on Dec 18, 2012 | 42 comments
29.
Analyzing Big Data With Twitter (ischool.berkeley.edu)
64 points by EzGraphs on Dec 18, 2012 | 1 comment
30.
Put Chubby Models on a Diet with Concerns (37signals.com)
60 points by MattRogish on Dec 18, 2012 | 50 comments

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