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1.		Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed. (reddit.com)
		322 points by zackattack on Dec 21, 2011 \| 157 comments
2.		John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language (ejohn.org)
		306 points by fogus on Dec 21, 2011 \| 216 comments
3.		Smoke Screening: Journalist tests TSA (vanityfair.com)
		293 points by Umalu on Dec 21, 2011 \| 95 comments
4.		All Programmers Are Self-Taught (jgneuf.wordpress.com)
		247 points by jgn on Dec 21, 2011 \| 79 comments
5.		Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby (hungryacademy.com)
		254 points by jeremymcanally on Dec 21, 2011 \| 165 comments
6.		Bingo Card Creator (etc) Year In Review 2011 (kalzumeus.com)
		221 points by joshuacc on Dec 21, 2011 \| 74 comments
7.		Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service (paulstamatiou.com)
		203 points by PStamatiou on Dec 21, 2011 \| 62 comments
8.		Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University (lambdassociates.org)
		187 points by jackfoxy on Dec 21, 2011 \| 107 comments
9.		Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit (netmagazine.com)
		187 points by riledhel on Dec 21, 2011 \| 27 comments
10.		Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 Billion (nytimes.com)
		143 points by ask995 on Dec 21, 2011 \| 68 comments
11.		Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear (techcrunch.com)
		131 points by csmajorfive on Dec 21, 2011 \| 53 comments
12.		700,000 Android devices activated each day (plus.google.com)
		120 points by arron61 on Dec 21, 2011 \| 89 comments
13.		How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston (mixergy.com)
		116 points by pospischil on Dec 21, 2011 \| 32 comments
14.		Nest thermostat teardown (sparkfun.com)
		107 points by nabilt on Dec 21, 2011 \| 44 comments
15.		Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry (bloomberg.com)
		106 points by zaveri on Dec 21, 2011 \| 32 comments
16.		The Golden Age of the Developer (kernelmag.com)
		89 points by dchs on Dec 21, 2011 \| 32 comments
17.		What to Look For in PHP 5.4 (jburrows.wordpress.com)
		86 points by robmorgan on Dec 21, 2011 \| 60 comments
18.		Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid? (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by evo_9 on Dec 21, 2011 \| 76 comments
19.		WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol (lenholgate.com)
		68 points by saurabh on Dec 21, 2011 \| 43 comments
20.		Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either (searchengineland.com)
		77 points by B-Scan on Dec 21, 2011 \| 13 comments
21.		Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials (ottawacitizen.com)
		77 points by pg on Dec 21, 2011 \| 29 comments
22.		Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate (inc.com)
		76 points by riffraff on Dec 21, 2011 \| 65 comments
23.		Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice" (europa.eu)
		72 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 21, 2011 \| 53 comments
24.		Build your own web search engine (himmele.blogspot.com)
		70 points by DanielHimmelein on Dec 21, 2011 \| 10 comments
25.		Where are all those Galaxy Nexus subpixels? (geek.com)
		60 points by adeelarshad82 on Dec 21, 2011 \| 20 comments
26.		Sending holiday cards, but I don't have addresses, so I made SendSpree (sendspree.com)
		59 points by colevscode on Dec 21, 2011 \| 8 comments
27.		DOJ takes bloggers laptops over reader comments left at Wordpress hosted blog (financialpost.com)
		56 points by doj_seizure on Dec 21, 2011 \| 11 comments
28.		"Lifestyle" CEO bootstraps business to 30 MM unique visitors: The wikiHow story (xconomy.com)
		58 points by Krystle on Dec 21, 2011 \| 10 comments
29.		Investors In Our $400,000 Seed Round And How We Met Them (bufferapp.com)
		55 points by LeonW on Dec 21, 2011 \| 8 comments
30.		Hacking Minecraft into WebGL (metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com)
		52 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 21, 2011 \| 16 comments
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