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1. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars (metro.co.uk)
321 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 | 107 comments
2. Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago (snmaynard.com)
316 points by beastmcbeast on Oct 17, 2012 | 108 comments
3. The Pirate Bay in the cloud (thepiratebay.se)
279 points by ponyous on Oct 17, 2012 | 68 comments
4. Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center (wired.com)
270 points by Hurdy on Oct 17, 2012 | 96 comments
5. Meteor releases authentication, accounts system, and new screencast (meteor.com)
269 points by debergalis on Oct 17, 2012 | 65 comments
6. Google's data centers are guarded by stormtroopers (maps.google.com)
257 points by jeffisageek on Oct 17, 2012 | 51 comments
7. Making Yourself a CEO (bhorowitz.com)
221 points by FilterJoe on Oct 17, 2012 | 33 comments
8. EC2 I/O (scalyr.com)
220 points by snewman on Oct 17, 2012 | 26 comments
9. International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners (ioccc.org)
182 points by lelf on Oct 17, 2012 | 37 comments
10. Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof (torrentfreak.com)
148 points by anons2011 on Oct 17, 2012 | 71 comments
11. Android 4.2 to include SE Linux and other security features (androidpolice.com)
145 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 | 23 comments
12. The Courage To Say ‘I Don’t Know’ (wbur.org)
141 points by jordanmueller on Oct 17, 2012 | 86 comments
13. Jack Dorsey: Let's Reconsider Our "Users" (jacks.tumblr.com)
142 points by hornokplease on Oct 17, 2012 | 99 comments
14. SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket (flightglobal.com)
117 points by someperson on Oct 17, 2012 | 49 comments
15. How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup (virool.com)
112 points by adebelov on Oct 17, 2012 | 65 comments
16. PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea (theunraveler.com)
104 points by theunraveler on Oct 17, 2012 | 122 comments
17. Run SQL on MongoDB (citusdata.com)
103 points by ozgune on Oct 17, 2012 | 34 comments
18. Exoplanet found right next door in Alpha Centauri (arstechnica.com)
102 points by iProject on Oct 17, 2012 | 36 comments
19. Do the police give more tickets at the end of the month to meet quotas? (robert.io)
104 points by rpicard on Oct 17, 2012 | 89 comments
20. GOV.UK: new government site built with open source software, £70 million cheaper (cabinetoffice.gov.uk)
100 points by bfirsh on Oct 17, 2012 | 44 comments
21. Django security releases issued (djangoproject.com)
95 points by jacobian on Oct 17, 2012 | 17 comments
22. Bountify - Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
92 points by danabramov on Oct 17, 2012 | 57 comments
23. Windows System Exploit (megafrock.com)
92 points by maxdeliso on Oct 17, 2012 | 45 comments
24. My son's flashcard routine (bentilly.blogspot.com)
91 points by btilly on Oct 17, 2012 | 56 comments
25. Patent #7028023: Linked List (google.com)
90 points by yen223 on Oct 17, 2012 | 62 comments
26. Python socket programming tutorial (binarytides.com)
88 points by silv3r_m00n on Oct 17, 2012 | 20 comments
27. Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models (codeclimate.com)
85 points by lest on Oct 17, 2012 | 20 comments
28. Software development final exam answers: Algorithms and Data Structures (daemonology.net)
90 points by cperciva on Oct 17, 2012 | 36 comments
29. More trouble for Color: shareholders and board vote to wind down company (venturebeat.com)
72 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 17, 2012 | 68 comments
30. Two years of Quicklisp (quicklisp.org)
73 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2012 | 21 comments

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