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1. Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years (consumerist.com)
557 points by wyclif on Dec 4, 2012 | 194 comments
2. Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot (yourkarma.com)
216 points by ChrisArchitect on Dec 4, 2012 | 119 comments
3. Touché (cmu.edu)
207 points by interconnector on Dec 4, 2012 | 59 comments
4. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation (itu.int)
209 points by mtgx on Dec 4, 2012 | 155 comments
5. The Insourcing Boom (theatlantic.com)
173 points by airlocksoftware on Dec 4, 2012 | 108 comments
6. I quit Twitter for a month and it changed my thinking about mostly everything. (adambrault.com)
176 points by HenrikJoreteg on Dec 4, 2012 | 100 comments
7. Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering (golang.org)
168 points by enneff on Dec 4, 2012 | 119 comments
8. University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon (uwaterloo.ca)
162 points by meangeme on Dec 4, 2012 | 114 comments
9. Netflix signs licensing agreement with Disney (engadget.com)
163 points by MarlonPro on Dec 4, 2012 | 73 comments
10. Hacker News: DMCA (news.ycombinator.com)
138 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 4, 2012 | 65 comments
11. How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it at the final hurdle (swaggadocio.com)
138 points by sjtgraham on Dec 4, 2012 | 116 comments
12. The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
137 points by Firehed on Dec 4, 2012 | 127 comments
13. China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars (google.com)
134 points by othello on Dec 4, 2012 | 125 comments
14. How tall can a Lego tower get? (bbc.co.uk)
122 points by jofo25 on Dec 4, 2012 | 46 comments
15. Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field (nasa.gov)
112 points by espeed on Dec 4, 2012 | 30 comments
16. Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus (idonethis.com)
110 points by ca98am79 on Dec 4, 2012 | 62 comments
17. Common Pitfalls with Django and South (andrewingram.net)
108 points by andrewingram on Dec 4, 2012 | 38 comments
18. $20 Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says (npr.org)
107 points by rileycrane on Dec 4, 2012 | 82 comments
19. Developer Time (pydanny.com)
103 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 4, 2012 | 74 comments
20. Crap I'm speaking at [insert conference here]. How do I prepare? (roguelynn.com)
100 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 4, 2012 | 53 comments
21. WiFi Signals Caught on Camera (newscientist.com)
101 points by victoro on Dec 4, 2012 | 31 comments
22. Hacker School Winter 2013 Applications are Open (hackerschool.com)
98 points by sunahsuh on Dec 4, 2012 | 39 comments
23. Designing Pragmatic RESTful APIs (apigee.com)
96 points by coderush on Dec 4, 2012 | 18 comments
24. Most Popular How-To Guides of 2012 (lifehacker.com)
96 points by patrickk on Dec 4, 2012 | 17 comments
25. Google Car Search (google.com)
94 points by kirubakaran on Dec 4, 2012 | 44 comments
26. Twemproxy, a Redis/memcached proxy from Twitter with auto-sharding (antirez.com)
90 points by mjackson on Dec 4, 2012 | 8 comments
27. Why 'The Daily' Failed (daringfireball.net)
88 points by MaxGabriel on Dec 4, 2012 | 70 comments
28. The Next SoundCloud Becomes SoundCloud (soundcloud.com)
87 points by gulbrandr on Dec 4, 2012 | 42 comments
29. Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here (drdobbs.com)
83 points by jacquesm on Dec 4, 2012 | 92 comments
30. Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally (thenextweb.com)
81 points by Quekster on Dec 4, 2012 | 40 comments

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