| 1. | | List.js (listjs.com) |
| 441 points by bloodberet on Oct 20, 2011 | 83 comments |
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| 2. | | New HTTP Codes (ietf.org) |
| 360 points by alcuadrado on Oct 20, 2011 | 80 comments |
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| 3. | | Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video] (infoq.com) |
| 356 points by puredanger on Oct 20, 2011 | 99 comments |
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| 4. | | Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend. (finishweekend.com) |
| 315 points by bryckbost on Oct 20, 2011 | 69 comments |
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| 5. | | 2D Game Art for Programmers (gamasutra.com) |
| 282 points by Impossible on Oct 20, 2011 | 38 comments |
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| 6. | | What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report (npr.org) |
| 237 points by joelhaus on Oct 20, 2011 | 220 comments |
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| 7. | | The coffeeshop fallacy (thestartuptoolkit.com) |
| 233 points by robfitz on Oct 20, 2011 | 96 comments |
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| 8. | | TechStars, Lies & Videotape (melanie.io) |
| 234 points by PStamatiou on Oct 20, 2011 | 100 comments |
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| 9. | | DuckDuckGo included in Opera (duck.co) |
| 189 points by exterm on Oct 20, 2011 | 44 comments |
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| 10. | | Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations (github.com/daneden) |
| 166 points by tilt on Oct 20, 2011 | 28 comments |
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| 11. | | 65k Open TCP Ports (zorinaq.com) |
| 164 points by mrb on Oct 20, 2011 | 27 comments |
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| 12. | | Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet (ddeville.com) |
| 165 points by zackbelow on Oct 20, 2011 | 54 comments |
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| 13. | | Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages" (cnet.com) |
| 161 points by dporan on Oct 20, 2011 | 146 comments |
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| 14. | | The Styrofoam Cube In This Letter Serves A Bureaucratic Purpose (consumerist.com) |
| 158 points by ubasu on Oct 20, 2011 | 44 comments |
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| 15. | | Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas (tenthcave.com) |
| 151 points by deadmansshoes on Oct 20, 2011 | 174 comments |
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| 16. | | CNN, NYTimes, Mashable all vulnerable to XSS (davidlynch.org) |
| 154 points by kemayo on Oct 20, 2011 | 68 comments |
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| 17. | | An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez (github.com/antirez) |
| 145 points by smn on Oct 20, 2011 | 57 comments |
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| 18. | | Google Reader cutting internal social features, integrating into Google+ (googlereader.blogspot.com) |
| 140 points by heydenberk on Oct 20, 2011 | 101 comments |
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| 19. | | Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery (cbsnews.com) |
| 126 points by MichaelApproved on Oct 20, 2011 | 108 comments |
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| 20. | | I Hate My Smartphone (rs.io) |
| 120 points by adbge on Oct 20, 2011 | 121 comments |
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| 21. | | Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions (zurb.com) |
| 118 points by audionerd on Oct 20, 2011 | 22 comments |
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| 23. | | Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose (msn.com) |
| 107 points by pitdesi on Oct 20, 2011 | 119 comments |
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| 24. | | Kurzweil's rebuttal to Paul Allen (technologyreview.com) |
| 102 points by ca98am79 on Oct 20, 2011 | 121 comments |
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| 25. | | Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 (amazon.com) |
| 96 points by mikecane on Oct 20, 2011 | 34 comments |
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| 26. | | Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say (nytimes.com) |
| 95 points by frankiewarren on Oct 20, 2011 | 88 comments |
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| 27. | | Real world Clojure (puredanger.com) |
| 97 points by puredanger on Oct 20, 2011 | 34 comments |
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| 28. | | Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source (thinq.co.uk) |
| 93 points by twapi on Oct 20, 2011 | 79 comments |
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| 29. | | Steve Jobs Worked on Apple Until His Last Day (pcmag.com) |
| 90 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 20, 2011 | 56 comments |
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| 30. | | The case for piracy (abc.net.au) |
| 88 points by cubicle67 on Oct 20, 2011 | 60 comments |
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Gmail accounts can be effectively anonymous. Yet plus accounts cannot be?
Google does not need anyone's real name in order to track and advertise to them. I'm fine with google tracking and advertising to me. Assign me some arbitrary UID and give me a 20 year cookie you refresh whenever I load a page with adwords or visit plus or login to gmail. I've been fine with that, all along.
But requiring a real name, tells me that google doesn't just want to track me to advertise to me. They want to correlate my online activities with my offline identity.
I consider that a violation of my privacy.
And so, I'm removing myself from google. I'm setting up mail services elsewhere, I'm migrating my Google Apps and App Engine accounts to other services. I've stopped using Plus, and as I move things elsewhere I'm deleting them from google.
For me, they've gone too far, and I no longer trust them.
Hell, even their search results have been in steep decline lately, so DuckDuckGo, here I come!
PS-- I agree with jwz. The only reason that it would take months to implement is because they're using some authoritative method - maybe ISP customer info, or government supplied info- to correlate users to reveal real identity. I don't see this recent change as google actually relenting on the issue.