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1.
Restoration of defocused and blurred images (yuzhikov.com)
354 points by Terretta on Oct 21, 2012 | 28 comments
2.
When A Daughter Dies (freakonomics.com)
324 points by jvilalta on Oct 21, 2012 | 178 comments
3.
Missing the Point of Promises (gist.github.com)
161 points by tlrobinson on Oct 21, 2012 | 46 comments
4.
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran (2007) (wired.com)
149 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 21, 2012 | 65 comments
5.
Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM (stackoverflow.com)
144 points by joslin01 on Oct 21, 2012 | 81 comments
6.
Jq - a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor (stedolan.github.com)
143 points by tchalla on Oct 21, 2012 | 36 comments
7.
Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people (postgresql.org)
117 points by aurelianito on Oct 21, 2012 | 64 comments
8.
Shepard tone (wikipedia.org)
99 points by mekoka on Oct 21, 2012 | 34 comments
9.
I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist. (imperfectwriting.tumblr.com)
96 points by blackhole on Oct 21, 2012 | 125 comments
10.
How I Simplified My Life (ridinginshoppingcarts.com)
95 points by bmaeser on Oct 21, 2012 | 109 comments
11.
Hacking the Dropbox Space Race (burtonthird.com)
80 points by pshken on Oct 21, 2012 | 23 comments
12.
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics Education (refsmmat.com)
79 points by ColinWright on Oct 21, 2012 | 91 comments
13.
Ways to Learn to Program Online (thenextweb.com)
71 points by iProject on Oct 21, 2012 | 17 comments
14.
Sculpture Made On A MakerBot (makerbot.com)
68 points by k0mplex on Oct 21, 2012 | 29 comments
15.
Mobile Apps: HTML5 vs Native (ericsink.com)
67 points by Rexxar on Oct 21, 2012 | 47 comments
16.
Interspecies Pair (Purr) Programming (polyglotprogramminginc.com)
67 points by lgleason on Oct 21, 2012 | 12 comments
17.
NIST may not have you in mind (imperialviolet.org)
67 points by dmit on Oct 21, 2012 | 34 comments
18.
Kane Kramer is credited with inventing the digital audio player in 1979 (wikipedia.org)
68 points by terhechte on Oct 21, 2012 | 27 comments
19.
Don't Worry About Your Productivity, Worry About You (hevenet.com)
61 points by Nathanael on Oct 21, 2012 | 16 comments
20.
Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue (theatlanticwire.com)
59 points by digisth on Oct 21, 2012 | 49 comments
21.
Can I download a video of the YC Startup School 2012 anywhere?
59 points by areeve on Oct 21, 2012 | 7 comments
22.
The future of .NET (haacked.com)
54 points by cek on Oct 21, 2012 | 79 comments
23.
Living a double life: being a parent at an early stage startup (alyssaaldersley.com)
59 points by joelg87 on Oct 21, 2012 | 16 comments
24.
Hacking the Dropbox Space Race (burtonthird.com)
54 points by josh_blum on Oct 21, 2012 | 40 comments
25.
Moby: Share your location in real time (mo.by)
57 points by priley on Oct 21, 2012 | 60 comments
26.
CssConsole - easily make terminal-styled forms (github.com/michalkow)
50 points by reion on Oct 21, 2012 | 18 comments
27.
Don’t believe the Silicon Valley hype (venturebeat.com)
47 points by mdhayes on Oct 21, 2012 | 17 comments
28.
EBay 'pays £1.2m in UK tax' on sales of £800m (bbc.co.uk)
47 points by sim1066 on Oct 21, 2012 | 54 comments
29.
DIY lab equipment, courtesy of 3D printing (arstechnica.com)
45 points by agi on Oct 21, 2012 | 5 comments
30.
Google’s Crystal Ball (nytimes.com)
42 points by danso on Oct 21, 2012 | 17 comments

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