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1. Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. (plus.google.com)
491 points by antidaily on Nov 12, 2011 | 445 comments
2. How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime (theatlanticcities.com)
270 points by gruseom on Nov 12, 2011 | 102 comments
3. Planes overhead (wolframalpha.com)
245 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 | 83 comments
4. HTML5 terminal (htmlfivewow.com)
184 points by arunabh on Nov 12, 2011 | 52 comments
5. Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble (fastcompany.com)
170 points by d_r on Nov 12, 2011 | 91 comments
6. Flash is dead. Long live the internet. (deconcept.com)
152 points by tensafefrogs on Nov 12, 2011 | 104 comments
7. It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too (adobe.com)
121 points by bithavoc on Nov 12, 2011 | 67 comments
8. Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy (google.com)
117 points by Concours on Nov 12, 2011 | 19 comments
9. Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream (bittorrent.com)
115 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 12, 2011 | 39 comments
10. The Philosophy of Computer Science (uva.nl)
107 points by ahmicro on Nov 12, 2011 | 14 comments
11. Nodejs+Fabric as fast as multi-threaded C++ (fabric-engine.com)
102 points by FabricPaul on Nov 12, 2011 | 66 comments
12. Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS (9to5mac.com)
97 points by Anon84 on Nov 12, 2011 | 73 comments
13. This 28-year-old's Iowa startup moves $350 million a year. (businessinsider.com)
92 points by anandkulkarni on Nov 12, 2011 | 33 comments
14. Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins (begriffsschrift.com)
84 points by begriffs on Nov 12, 2011 | 30 comments
15. These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For (wired.com)
81 points by evo_9 on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
16. Steganography with Brainfuck (imrannazar.com)
75 points by Two9A on Nov 12, 2011 | 13 comments
17. Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change...there's the door (plus.google.com)
75 points by kayluhb on Nov 12, 2011 | 25 comments
18. Why do so many technical recruiters suck? (mikebz.com)
72 points by ezxs on Nov 12, 2011 | 57 comments
19. Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online (steampowered.com)
72 points by alexanderswang on Nov 12, 2011 | 40 comments
20. Stalking a person with only their email & IP address (attackvector.org)
66 points by hartleybrody on Nov 12, 2011 | 31 comments
21. Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic (everythingsysadmin.com)
66 points by progga on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
22. The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010) (hbr.org)
61 points by _delirium on Nov 12, 2011 | 30 comments
23. Announcing Firefox Aurora 10 (hacks.mozilla.org)
55 points by maratd on Nov 12, 2011 | 27 comments
24. A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression (gailly.net)
50 points by seagaia on Nov 12, 2011 | 20 comments
25. Hypothes.is: Taking peer review to the Internet (kickstarter.com)
46 points by tilgovi on Nov 12, 2011 | 12 comments
26. ARM touts PlayStation 3 power in a mobile GPU (arstechnica.com)
37 points by bane on Nov 12, 2011 | 9 comments
27. Stop Making Apps (techcrunch.com)
37 points by hypr_geek on Nov 12, 2011 | 11 comments
28. How Strong is a Chimpanzee? (slate.com)
31 points by suprgeek on Nov 12, 2011 | 13 comments
29. Why Science Requires Theories (psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com)
29 points by saulrh on Nov 12, 2011 | 8 comments
30. Burt Rutan Is Up To Something… (wired.com)
28 points by bootload on Nov 12, 2011 | 16 comments

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