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1.
The Mature Programmer (cbloomrants.blogspot.com)
226 points by jblow on Dec 4, 2011 | 70 comments
2.
How about some Android graphics true facts? (plus.google.com)
219 points by Aissen on Dec 4, 2011 | 104 comments
3.
Path menu in pure CSS3 (victorcoulon.fr)
213 points by zeppelin_7 on Dec 4, 2011 | 53 comments
4.
Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin (github.com/bmatzelle)
181 points by urza on Dec 4, 2011 | 93 comments
5.
The secret history of the about:jwz url (jwz.org)
175 points by cpeterso on Dec 4, 2011 | 18 comments
6.
Firefox 11 Targeted for SPDY Support (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
175 points by johnbender on Dec 4, 2011 | 39 comments
7.
Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo (freebsd.org)
169 points by haileys on Dec 4, 2011 | 132 comments
8.
Harvard 1869 entrance exam (columbiaspectator.com)
169 points by alapshah on Dec 4, 2011 | 135 comments
9.
The Future of Ground-Based Transportation Systems (swiftprt.com)
146 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 4, 2011 | 97 comments
10.
Anti-pattern theater: how to get women to quit (rachelbythebay.com)
138 points by protomyth on Dec 4, 2011 | 176 comments
11.
Who's really making money on the Chinese internet? (techrice.com)
135 points by biesnecker on Dec 4, 2011 | 12 comments
12.
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
130 points by tux1968 on Dec 4, 2011 | 59 comments
13.
Ted Dziuba's take on Hubot (github.com/teddziuba)
130 points by johns on Dec 4, 2011 | 65 comments
14.
From Facebook's Hackathon, TCP re-implemented over chat in a post-SOPA world
122 points by xxbondsxx on Dec 4, 2011 | 25 comments
15.
JQuery Shutters Plugin Site (jquery.com)
120 points by vital101 on Dec 4, 2011 | 46 comments
16.
Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams (inkdroid.org)
101 points by jitendra_ on Dec 4, 2011 | 20 comments
17.
Seasteading: Cities on the ocean (economist.com)
100 points by llambda on Dec 4, 2011 | 112 comments
18.
Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years - Slashdot (slashdot.org)
99 points by holychiz on Dec 4, 2011 | 92 comments
19.
The Pest Who Shames Companies Into Fixing Security Flaws (wired.com)
95 points by pier0 on Dec 4, 2011 | 14 comments
20.
Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump (sprint.ly)
93 points by dotBen on Dec 4, 2011 | 51 comments
21.
Microsoft Research applying spam-fighting techniques to attack HIV (theverge.com)
91 points by fedxc on Dec 4, 2011 | 13 comments
22.
Spare Me From “Product Guys” (techcrunch.com)
82 points by ssclafani on Dec 4, 2011 | 60 comments
23.
Brainfuck in one line of Python (princeton.edu)
80 points by JJMalina on Dec 4, 2011 | 27 comments
24.
Ebay launches query language (ql.io)
81 points by jurre on Dec 4, 2011 | 29 comments
25.
The open source code powering Occupy Wall Street (github.com/flosolutions)
79 points by clutchski on Dec 4, 2011 | 30 comments
26.
Freelance Rates Survey, 2011 (UK) (cole007.net)
73 points by cwan on Dec 4, 2011 | 32 comments
27.
How Integers Should Work (In Systems Programming Languages) (regehr.org)
72 points by rcfox on Dec 4, 2011 | 37 comments
28.
The Berkeley pit (failuremag.com)
68 points by aurelianito on Dec 4, 2011 | 12 comments
29.
Is BSD the new GPL? (zedshaw.com)
64 points by okal on Dec 4, 2011 | 38 comments
30.
Linus Torvalds Has Changed His Mind About Gnome 3 (plus.google.com)
64 points by tux1968 on Dec 4, 2011 | 21 comments

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