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1. Building my Own Laptop (bunniestudios.com)
354 points by beambot on Dec 15, 2012 | 89 comments
2. PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing (powwow.cc)
225 points by siong1987 on Dec 15, 2012 | 72 comments
3. Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct (slate.com)
209 points by onemach on Dec 15, 2012 | 78 comments
4. Things I wish someone had told me about life after college (zackshapiro.com)
203 points by kine on Dec 15, 2012 | 131 comments
5. Web Revenue Models (hackpad.com)
175 points by stickhandle on Dec 15, 2012 | 22 comments
6. Valve boss says living room Steam PCs coming with Linux support (shacknews.com)
173 points by gregpurtell on Dec 15, 2012 | 45 comments
7. Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns (mymodernmet.com)
168 points by ColinWright on Dec 15, 2012 | 25 comments
8. Online collaborative LaTeX editor (writelatex.com)
148 points by fachoper on Dec 15, 2012 | 69 comments
9. Wikipedia (English) starting to migrate to MariaDB (wikimedia.org)
139 points by neya on Dec 15, 2012 | 36 comments
10. The Power of Concentration (nytimes.com)
119 points by bmac27 on Dec 15, 2012 | 42 comments
11. Combinator Recipes for Working With Objects in JavaScript (github.com/raganwald)
104 points by raganwald on Dec 15, 2012 | 28 comments
12. What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone? (pandodaily.com)
101 points by muratmutlu on Dec 15, 2012 | 85 comments
13. Pick Your Battles (zef.me)
98 points by tanepiper on Dec 15, 2012 | 20 comments
14. Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near (2011) (technologyreview.com)
95 points by rblion on Dec 15, 2012 | 89 comments
15. When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got? (scientificamerican.com)
93 points by Pr0 on Dec 15, 2012 | 96 comments
16. Your Very First Microprocessor (gibiansky.com)
86 points by PieSquared on Dec 15, 2012 | 17 comments
17. Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing (theregister.co.uk)
83 points by robinh on Dec 15, 2012 | 29 comments
18. The Symmetry of My UnAmerican McCarthyist Cancer (the GPL) (ebb.org)
80 points by mariuz on Dec 15, 2012 | 35 comments
19. How do we tell truths that might hurt? (E. Dijkstra, 1975) (utexas.edu)
66 points by Luyt on Dec 15, 2012 | 67 comments
20. Eric Schmidt And Stephen Colbert Talk Politics (techcrunch.com)
61 points by acremades on Dec 15, 2012 | 14 comments
21. Meet the World’s Cheapest Venture Capitalist (wired.com)
59 points by wyclif on Dec 15, 2012 | 19 comments
22. Realtime statistics of Haskell programs (ocharles.org.uk)
59 points by lelf on Dec 15, 2012 | 4 comments
23. The 2012 Perl 6 Coding Contest (strangelyconsistent.org)
55 points by draegtun on Dec 15, 2012 | 7 comments
24. We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good (clayallsopp.com)
49 points by 10char on Dec 15, 2012 | 43 comments
25. Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of all power by 2030 (theregister.co.uk)
46 points by iProject on Dec 15, 2012 | 42 comments
26. Kurzweil Responds: Don't Underestimate the Singularity (2011) (technologyreview.com)
45 points by llambda on Dec 15, 2012 | 49 comments
27. E Online has left a Gist url on the top of their site (eonline.com)
44 points by Moto7451 on Dec 15, 2012 | 15 comments
28. Slash: A markup language for styling text on iOS (github.com/chrisdevereux)
42 points by chrisdevereux on Dec 15, 2012 | 16 comments
29. AngelList Raising A Big Round, To Be Valued at $150 Million Or More (techcrunch.com)
40 points by zosegal on Dec 15, 2012 | 15 comments
30. Grammy for MIDI Creators Dave Smith, Ikutaro Kakehashi (createdigitalmusic.com)
39 points by joey_muller on Dec 15, 2012 | 6 comments

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