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Stories from December 3, 2011
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1. I too know the websites you visited (oxplot.github.com)
187 points by oxplot on Dec 3, 2011 | 93 comments
2. Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats (sramana.in)
178 points by _i0tq on Dec 3, 2011 | 28 comments
3. The raster tragedy at low resolution (1997) (microsoft.com)
170 points by anon1385 on Dec 3, 2011 | 40 comments
4. Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian' (yahoo.com)
150 points by thomasgerbe on Dec 3, 2011 | 194 comments
5. NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway (aol.com)
140 points by lchengify on Dec 3, 2011 | 181 comments
6. Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be in “The Age of the Essay” (jseliger.com)
133 points by jseliger on Dec 3, 2011 | 51 comments
7. Email banned at 75,000-employee company (go.com)
107 points by ojosilva on Dec 3, 2011 | 73 comments
8. Mountains and buried ice on Mars (esa.int)
107 points by IgorPartola on Dec 3, 2011 | 15 comments
9. Node.js 0.6.4 was blocked in China (groups.google.com)
85 points by bmaeser on Dec 3, 2011 | 42 comments
10. I know the websites you visited (coredump.cx)
84 points by ksri on Dec 3, 2011 | 46 comments
11. ME student discovers a unique fact about polar bears (coe.berkeley.edu)
83 points by bane on Dec 3, 2011 | 15 comments
12. Windows Phone is currently five times more profitable for us than the iPhone (anlock.com)
76 points by kenjackson on Dec 3, 2011 | 33 comments
13. Carrier IQ Detector is available on the Android Market - find out if you have it (android.com)
74 points by dbin78 on Dec 3, 2011 | 35 comments
14. SAP To Acquire SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion (allthingsd.com)
70 points by tilt on Dec 3, 2011 | 49 comments
15. Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone and iPad design patents (theverge.com)
71 points by acak on Dec 3, 2011 | 82 comments
16. Google is Creating an Amazon Prime Competitor (wsj.com)
70 points by Antelope on Dec 3, 2011 | 36 comments
17. EA relaunches Tetris on iOS with a $30/year subscription (really) (joystiq.com)
68 points by evo_9 on Dec 3, 2011 | 17 comments
18. Is Firefox Doomed? (readwriteweb.com)
68 points by johnpaultitlow on Dec 3, 2011 | 122 comments
19. GNU Stow 2.1.0 released (lists.gnu.org)
67 points by lelf on Dec 3, 2011 | 14 comments
20. How to create a biased coin and prove it with math (izbicki.me)
66 points by jackpirate on Dec 3, 2011 | 20 comments
21. Solarized color theme for Emacs 24 (batsov.com)
64 points by michaelty on Dec 3, 2011 | 11 comments
22. Realtime laser graphics (marcansoft.com)
61 points by rohit89 on Dec 3, 2011 | 9 comments
23. Welcome to Armageddon, USA: A Tour of America’s Most Toxic Town (wired.com)
59 points by georgecmu on Dec 3, 2011 | 12 comments
24. Science Exchange (YC S11) Gets A $1.5 Million Boost (techcrunch.com)
59 points by abbottry on Dec 3, 2011 | 4 comments
25. DARPA: Shredder Challenge Solved. See images from the winning entry. (shredderchallenge.com)
54 points by petedoyle on Dec 3, 2011 | 11 comments
26. Repos.io is the del.icio.us of forges (repos.io)
54 points by solitaire on Dec 3, 2011 | 16 comments
27. First RasberryPi PCBs ready (raspberrypi.org)
53 points by easp on Dec 3, 2011 | 14 comments
28. Why are you using Google Plus for Blogging? (zerodistraction.com)
53 points by alexknight on Dec 3, 2011 | 44 comments
29. Markdress - Render any markdown URL (s-anand.net)
52 points by boundlessdreamz on Dec 3, 2011 | 13 comments
30. How do I prevent accidental rm -rf /*? (serverfault.com)
51 points by necenzurat on Dec 3, 2011 | 51 comments

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