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Stories from September 25, 2011
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1. How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data (europe-v-facebook.org)
411 points by stfu on Sept 25, 2011 | 105 comments
2. Facebook Disconnect (chrome.google.com)
306 points by jmonegro on Sept 25, 2011 | 92 comments
3. Stanford's online Machine Learning class now open for enrollment (ml-class.org)
192 points by roger_lee on Sept 25, 2011 | 41 comments
4. What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race (tonyhaile.com)
191 points by arctictony on Sept 25, 2011 | 20 comments
5. How Quake (the videogame) changed my life forever. (derelict-compendium.blogspot.com)
189 points by aw3c2 on Sept 25, 2011 | 32 comments
6. Why Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing' violates HTTP (andothernoise.blogspot.com)
183 points by alexandros on Sept 25, 2011 | 65 comments
7. "When I design software, I really try hard to make it simple." (mail-archive.com)
163 points by dchest on Sept 25, 2011 | 54 comments
8. Manufacturing "A Minimal Pen" in China, failures and successes (kickstarter.com)
150 points by rizumu on Sept 25, 2011 | 85 comments
9. Enrollment for Stanford's online DB class now open (db-class.org)
147 points by roger_lee on Sept 25, 2011 | 37 comments
10. Why All Employees Should Be VIPs At Your Company (holler.com)
143 points by biznickman on Sept 25, 2011 | 39 comments
11. Your idea sucks now go do it anyway (asmartbear.com)
138 points by vitomd on Sept 25, 2011 | 19 comments
12. Rails is not MVC (andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com)
138 points by andrzejkrzywda on Sept 25, 2011 | 45 comments
13. LaTeX tricks to make madman Cthulhu worshipper-like text (tex.stackexchange.com)
126 points by Swizec on Sept 25, 2011 | 20 comments
14. Walk Away From Your Computer. Seriously. (kcurtin.squarespace.com)
121 points by kcurtin on Sept 25, 2011 | 54 comments
15. Understanding Virtual Memory (ualberta.ca)
106 points by jfriedly on Sept 25, 2011 | 7 comments
16. How Bad Boards Kill Companies: HP (mondaynote.com)
101 points by alexandros on Sept 25, 2011 | 25 comments
17. What Are The Chances That You Would Be Born? (law.harvard.edu)
94 points by kloncks on Sept 25, 2011 | 41 comments
18. Attention metal thieves: Buy BT, get 75 million miles of copper (theregister.co.uk)
91 points by fvbock on Sept 25, 2011 | 20 comments
19. A kernel.org status update (no more SSH for developers) (gmane.org)
85 points by JoshTriplett on Sept 25, 2011 | 19 comments
20. Poll: Facebook usage
72 points by veyron on Sept 25, 2011 | 107 comments
21. From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later (csmonitor.com)
68 points by tokenadult on Sept 25, 2011 | 23 comments
22. Windows Phone does transmit location information without user consent (zdnet.com)
66 points by 0x12 on Sept 25, 2011 | 14 comments
23. A tool that lets you automate the Internet (nytimes.com)
61 points by rmason on Sept 25, 2011 | 13 comments
24. Notes From the MIT Startup Bootcamp 2011 (jayunit.net)
58 points by ubuwaits on Sept 25, 2011 | 8 comments
25. Web Scraping with Google Spreadsheets and XPath (vancouverdata.blogspot.com)
56 points by wslh on Sept 25, 2011 | 8 comments
26. Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users (thecompiler.org)
55 points by gzomartin on Sept 25, 2011 | 29 comments
27. HaXe 2.08 (ncannasse.fr)
54 points by swah on Sept 25, 2011 | 11 comments
28. Emacs Hint #2 - Workspaces (emacsrookie.com)
53 points by samueltonini on Sept 25, 2011 | 12 comments
29. A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (cmu.edu)
49 points by jwdunne on Sept 25, 2011 | 5 comments
30. The Slow Way To SPDY (taoofmac.com)
45 points by ditados on Sept 25, 2011 | 3 comments

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