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541.

France starts opening its data (data.gouv.fr)

111 points by geoffroy on Dec 5, 2011 | 12 comments

542.

2000x performance win (dtrace.org)

110 points by tilt on Dec 10, 2011 | 45 comments

543.

Visualizing Device Utilization (dtrace.org)

110 points by timf on Dec 19, 2011 | 4 comments

544.

Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate (cbsnews.com)

109 points by boredguy8 on Dec 16, 2011 | 84 comments

545.

URI.js is a facility for working with URLs (medialize.github.com)

109 points by wslh on Dec 28, 2011 | 43 comments

546.

What’s New In Emacs 24 (masteringemacs.org)

109 points by fogus on Dec 9, 2011 | 39 comments

547.

Hash Functions (home.comcast.net)

109 points by jacquesm on Dec 10, 2011 | 27 comments

548.

MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl (commoncrawl.org)

109 points by Aloisius on Dec 16, 2011 | 26 comments

549.

Google Nexus Android phones do not include Carrier IQ tracking software (theverge.com)

109 points by glymor on Dec 1, 2011 | 21 comments

550.

R for the JVM: 60% complete, help wanted! (code.google.com)

109 points by bedatadriven on Dec 20, 2011 | 15 comments

551.

Amazon Will Pay Shoppers $5 to Walk Out of Stores Empty-Handed (allthingsd.com)

108 points by 8bitliving on Dec 6, 2011 | 133 comments

552.

JQuery Performance Tips Cheat Sheet (dumitruglavan.com)

108 points by doomhz on Dec 14, 2011 | 21 comments

553.

Erlang R15B Released (erlang.org)

108 points by chops on Dec 14, 2011 | 21 comments

554.

A better search for visually similar images (graphics.cs.cmu.edu)

108 points by pitdesi on Dec 7, 2011 | 11 comments

555.

How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries (eff.org)

108 points by llambda on Dec 14, 2011 | 1 comments

556.

Poll: Do you use an adblocker?

107 points by gnosis on Dec 7, 2011 | 203 comments

557.

How we got the Hall.com domain (blog.hall.com)

107 points by bretthellman on Dec 8, 2011 | 94 comments

558.

Email banned at 75,000-employee company (abcnews.go.com)

107 points by ojosilva on Dec 3, 2011 | 73 comments

559.

Gowalla Founders v. Gowalla Investors (uncrunched.com)

107 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 6, 2011 | 56 comments

560.

Nest thermostat teardown (sparkfun.com)

107 points by nabilt on Dec 21, 2011 | 44 comments

561.

GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block (techcrunch.com)

107 points by ssclafani on Dec 26, 2011 | 37 comments

562.

Senator Al Franken Asks Carrier IQ to Explain Itself (franken.senate.gov)

107 points by rdp on Dec 1, 2011 | 28 comments

563.

Mountains and buried ice on Mars (esa.int)

107 points by IgorPartola on Dec 3, 2011 | 15 comments

564.

"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest developed nation (blogs.crikey.com.au)

106 points by jdub on Dec 8, 2011 | 148 comments

565.

Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry (bloomberg.com)

106 points by zaveri on Dec 21, 2011 | 32 comments

566.

Building StatHat with Go (blog.golang.org)

106 points by mdwrigh2 on Dec 19, 2011 | 25 comments

567.

Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate (theatlantic.com)

106 points by jancona on Dec 2, 2011 | 0 comments

568.

Can Google+ posts be marked with plus.Google.com instead of Google.com?

106 points by msujaws on Dec 27, 2011 | 0 comments

569.

After traveling to over 25 countries I created an app I wanted (tripl.com)

105 points by pjsullivan3 on Dec 17, 2011 | 56 comments

570.

How can Skyrim be so unoptimized? Modders do better job than Bethesda (forums.bethsoft.com)

105 points by jhack on Dec 23, 2011 | 56 comments