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1.
Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood (appleinsider.com)
225 points by smoody on Dec 31, 2011 | 111 comments
2.
Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation (lwn.net)
198 points by ableal on Dec 31, 2011 | 53 comments
3.
Happy New Year!
151 points by RuchitGarg on Dec 31, 2011 | 49 comments
4.
Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers (cnet.com)
146 points by FluidDjango on Dec 31, 2011 | 30 comments
5.
Sony, Nintendo, EA hide behind PR move. Still support SOPA (destructoid.com)
138 points by nextparadigms on Dec 31, 2011 | 23 comments
6.
The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus (fogus.me)
131 points by liebke on Dec 31, 2011 | 20 comments
7.
Full color laser TV (hackaday.com)
124 points by DanBC on Dec 31, 2011 | 23 comments
8.
Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? (gettingsmart.com)
124 points by tokenadult on Dec 31, 2011 | 56 comments
9.
Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS app store (kickstarter.com)
112 points by extension on Dec 31, 2011 | 40 comments
10.
Let's update the HN circle on Google Plus (the proper way) (axxim.net)
99 points by clone1018 on Dec 31, 2011 | 66 comments
11.
Ask HN: Fundamental texts for serious web engineers?
95 points by BadassFractal on Dec 31, 2011 | 36 comments
12.
Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011 (leahculver.com)
89 points by leahculver on Dec 31, 2011 | 30 comments
13.
Maciej Fijalkowski's view on PyPy's future (lostinjit.blogspot.com)
86 points by pieceofpeace on Dec 31, 2011 | 21 comments
14.
MongoDB's Write Lock (pythonisito.com)
75 points by rick446 on Dec 31, 2011 | 73 comments
15.
Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) (graduationwisdom.com)
72 points by mrbogle on Dec 31, 2011 | 14 comments
16.
$87 M. News Corp. Backed Startup Shuts Down Before Launch (betabeat.com)
72 points by ccarella on Dec 31, 2011 | 26 comments
17.
Complete Google App Engine + Backbone.js + Require.js Todo list Web App Example (github.com/ronreiter)
66 points by ronreiter on Dec 31, 2011 | 10 comments
18.
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I (drdobbs.com)
66 points by termie on Dec 31, 2011 | 3 comments
19.
Perl 6 in 2011 - A Retrospection (perlgeek.de)
67 points by perlgeek on Dec 31, 2011 | 26 comments
20.
Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars (businessweek.com)
64 points by jongraehl on Dec 31, 2011 | 88 comments
21.
Reverse engineering uC firmware from audio signals (gravitronic.blogspot.com)
63 points by anigbrowl on Dec 31, 2011 | 6 comments
22.
K-Means Clustering and Art (0xfe.blogspot.com)
60 points by mdwrigh2 on Dec 31, 2011 | 12 comments
23.
Driving has lost its cool for young Americans (grist.org)
59 points by robg on Dec 31, 2011 | 118 comments
24.
'Reputational' Media—Where Yelp Has an Edge Over AirBnB, VRBO, etc. (theatlantic.com)
57 points by TWAndrews on Dec 31, 2011 | 19 comments
25.
IBNIZ - A hardcore audiovisual VM (countercomplex.blogspot.com)
55 points by paufernandez on Dec 31, 2011 | 10 comments
26.
Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler (phusion.nl)
52 points by FooBarWidget on Dec 31, 2011 | 65 comments
27.
Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel (uci.edu)
50 points by MaysonL on Dec 31, 2011 | 8 comments
28.
To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com)
48 points by llambda on Dec 31, 2011 | 7 comments
29.
WebGL Meincraft (pocoo.org)
46 points by llambda on Dec 31, 2011 | 20 comments
30.
Obama Discreetly Signs NDAA on New Year's Eve (nytimes.com)
43 points by joshuahedlund on Dec 31, 2011 | 12 comments

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