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1.Sh.py (amoffat.github.com)
493 points by daenz on Sept 17, 2012 | 64 comments
2.Introducing the Command Bar (github.com/blog)
419 points by dko on Sept 17, 2012 | 98 comments
3.Android can be beautiful (androidniceties.tumblr.com)
384 points by mephju on Sept 17, 2012 | 157 comments
4.Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways (npr.org)
353 points by missechokit on Sept 17, 2012 | 66 comments
5.CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability (ceronman.com)
349 points by dcu on Sept 17, 2012 | 218 comments
6.iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas (docs.google.com)
321 points by dbloom on Sept 17, 2012 | 115 comments
7.Analysis of bank PIN numbers (datagenetics.com)
255 points by dangoldin on Sept 17, 2012 | 111 comments
8.Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)
251 points by swombat on Sept 17, 2012 | 145 comments
9.How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One (cloudflare.com)
246 points by spahl on Sept 17, 2012 | 92 comments
10.Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (yahoo.com)
239 points by mtgx on Sept 17, 2012 | 179 comments
11.52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World (discovery.com)
237 points by antimora on Sept 17, 2012 | 57 comments
12.Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB (svs.io)
203 points by svs on Sept 17, 2012 | 200 comments
13.Animated GIFs the Hard Way (sublimetext.com)
190 points by jskinner on Sept 17, 2012 | 49 comments
14.Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client (kalzumeus.com)
173 points by ananthrk on Sept 17, 2012 | 45 comments
15.A Tour of the Acme Editor (swtch.com)
164 points by lnmx on Sept 17, 2012 | 86 comments
16.7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors (moebio.com)
157 points by chedar on Sept 17, 2012 | 13 comments
17.New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (rapid7.com)
138 points by turnersr on Sept 17, 2012 | 51 comments
18.Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" (csmonitor.com)
128 points by pavel_lishin on Sept 17, 2012 | 34 comments
19.Just Cause 2 Multiplayer: Behind the scenes with gaming's greatest hack (redbull.co.uk)
127 points by bensillis on Sept 17, 2012 | 39 comments
20.Amazon Maps API (amazonappstoredev.com)
125 points by ryandvm on Sept 17, 2012 | 45 comments
21.Want to learn Django? Start here. (elweb.co)
119 points by flexterra on Sept 17, 2012 | 22 comments
22.Recruiter Disruption Rant (lrug.org)
116 points by jimeh on Sept 17, 2012 | 113 comments
23.Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released (antipope.org)
116 points by cstross on Sept 17, 2012 | 25 comments
24.Actually, you don't understand lexical scope (github.com/raganwald)
107 points by fogus on Sept 17, 2012 | 68 comments
25.Web site launch toolkit (whattouse.com)
106 points by suavepenguin on Sept 17, 2012 | 33 comments
26.TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less (tinytocs.org)
103 points by dhotson on Sept 17, 2012 | 18 comments

Hardware is dead; long live hardware.

The free-fall in PC prices in the 90s "killed" the PC, except that every major PC manufacturer still sells high-end models, and retailers still make money on them.

The free-fall in automotive prices in the 20s "killed" the automobile, except that people kept buying faster, sleeker, newer models anyway.

Like so many other electronics and everyday devices, the commoditization of tablets won't "kill" the tablet. It will result in a glut of disposable, troublesome, irksome devices, but there will still be a very nice market of people willing to pay more for a better device. Go make money there, you'll be happier anyway.


Most of the bad code examples in this post are taken from the CoffeeScript compiler itself. For that I have to say "mea culpa". There's a lot of overly clever and dense bits that have accrued in the compiler over time -- sometimes due to the tangly nature of the codebase, but also sometimes because we tend to use the self-hosted compiler as a test bed for edge cases of combining different language features together.

If you're looking for more regular style, this style guide is a better place to start:

https://github.com/polarmobile/coffeescript-style-guide

29.Living Without Time (stevecorona.com)
93 points by iSimone on Sept 17, 2012 | 50 comments
30.I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it. (drewmackenzie.com)
89 points by andrewmackenzie on Sept 17, 2012 | 53 comments

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