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1.
PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing (powwow.cc)
225 points by siong1987 on Dec 15, 2012 | 72 comments
2.
Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct (slate.com)
209 points by onemach on Dec 15, 2012 | 78 comments
3.
Things I wish someone had told me about life after college (zackshapiro.com)
203 points by kine on Dec 15, 2012 | 131 comments
4.
Web Revenue Models (hackpad.com)
175 points by stickhandle on Dec 15, 2012 | 22 comments
5.
Valve boss says living room Steam PCs coming with Linux support (shacknews.com)
173 points by gregpurtell on Dec 15, 2012 | 45 comments
6.
Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns (mymodernmet.com)
168 points by ColinWright on Dec 15, 2012 | 25 comments
7.
Online collaborative LaTeX editor (writelatex.com)
148 points by fachoper on Dec 15, 2012 | 69 comments
8.
Wikipedia (English) starting to migrate to MariaDB (wikimedia.org)
139 points by neya on Dec 15, 2012 | 36 comments
9.
The Power of Concentration (nytimes.com)
119 points by bmac27 on Dec 15, 2012 | 42 comments
10.
Combinator Recipes for Working With Objects in JavaScript (github.com/raganwald)
104 points by raganwald on Dec 15, 2012 | 28 comments
11.
What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone? (pandodaily.com)
101 points by muratmutlu on Dec 15, 2012 | 85 comments
12.
Pick Your Battles (zef.me)
98 points by tanepiper on Dec 15, 2012 | 20 comments
13.
Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near (2011) (technologyreview.com)
95 points by rblion on Dec 15, 2012 | 89 comments
14.
When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got? (scientificamerican.com)
93 points by Pr0 on Dec 15, 2012 | 96 comments
15.
Your Very First Microprocessor (gibiansky.com)
86 points by PieSquared on Dec 15, 2012 | 17 comments
16.
Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing (theregister.co.uk)
83 points by robinh on Dec 15, 2012 | 29 comments
17.
The Symmetry of My UnAmerican McCarthyist Cancer (the GPL) (ebb.org)
80 points by mariuz on Dec 15, 2012 | 35 comments
18.
How do we tell truths that might hurt? (E. Dijkstra, 1975) (utexas.edu)
66 points by Luyt on Dec 15, 2012 | 67 comments
19.
Eric Schmidt And Stephen Colbert Talk Politics (techcrunch.com)
61 points by acremades on Dec 15, 2012 | 14 comments
20.
Meet the World’s Cheapest Venture Capitalist (wired.com)
59 points by wyclif on Dec 15, 2012 | 19 comments
21.
Realtime statistics of Haskell programs (ocharles.org.uk)
59 points by lelf on Dec 15, 2012 | 4 comments
22.
The 2012 Perl 6 Coding Contest (strangelyconsistent.org)
55 points by draegtun on Dec 15, 2012 | 7 comments
23.
We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good (clayallsopp.com)
49 points by 10char on Dec 15, 2012 | 43 comments
24.
Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of all power by 2030 (theregister.co.uk)
46 points by iProject on Dec 15, 2012 | 42 comments
25.
Kurzweil Responds: Don't Underestimate the Singularity (2011) (technologyreview.com)
45 points by llambda on Dec 15, 2012 | 49 comments
26.
E Online has left a Gist url on the top of their site (eonline.com)
44 points by Moto7451 on Dec 15, 2012 | 15 comments
27.
Slash: A markup language for styling text on iOS (github.com/chrisdevereux)
42 points by chrisdevereux on Dec 15, 2012 | 16 comments
28.
AngelList Raising A Big Round, To Be Valued at $150 Million Or More (techcrunch.com)
40 points by zosegal on Dec 15, 2012 | 15 comments
29.
Grammy for MIDI Creators Dave Smith, Ikutaro Kakehashi (createdigitalmusic.com)
39 points by joey_muller on Dec 15, 2012 | 6 comments
30.
New front gearbox design for bicycle (efneo.com)
38 points by ajuc on Dec 15, 2012 | 23 comments

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