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1.
Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee (technorati.com)
525 points by sbisker on Nov 6, 2011 | 56 comments
2.
Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) (jacquesmattheij.com)
406 points by llambda on Nov 6, 2011 | 265 comments
3.
Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 (therepublic.com)
312 points by tokenadult on Nov 6, 2011 | 100 comments
4.
You're a developer, so why do you work for someone else? (intermittentintelligence.com)
234 points by cotsog on Nov 6, 2011 | 107 comments
5.
What being hopelessly single taught me about pitching tech celebs (geekwire.com)
184 points by iseff on Nov 6, 2011 | 48 comments
6.
AI are taking jobs (economist.com)
184 points by bmahmood on Nov 6, 2011 | 154 comments
7.
Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best (theatlantic.com)
164 points by vwoolf on Nov 6, 2011 | 54 comments
8.
Ask HN: Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship
151 points by throwaway87 on Nov 6, 2011 | 88 comments
9.
1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month (zorinaq.com)
143 points by mrb on Nov 6, 2011 | 53 comments
10.
TouchFire: Finally a real keyboard for the iPad (kickstarter.com)
134 points by kiriappeee on Nov 6, 2011 | 50 comments
11.
Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
130 points by drey on Nov 6, 2011 | 96 comments
12.
JavaScript's sweet spot (blog.mrale.ph)
115 points by paufernandez on Nov 6, 2011 | 18 comments
13.
The Pure CSS3 Content Slider (iamceege.com)
111 points by J3L2404 on Nov 6, 2011 | 15 comments
14.
Khan Academy Gets 5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a School (hackeducation.com)
99 points by apievangelist on Nov 6, 2011 | 31 comments
15.
Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set (nasa.gov)
96 points by J3L2404 on Nov 6, 2011 | 56 comments
16.
MongoGate — or let's have a serious NoSQL discussion (erlang.de)
94 points by zeit_geist on Nov 6, 2011 | 32 comments
17.
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions (businessweek.com)
95 points by bishnu on Nov 6, 2011 | 60 comments
18.
Growl 1.3.1 is out, no longer free (itunes.apple.com)
91 points by avirambm on Nov 6, 2011 | 99 comments
19.
CoffeeScript Means Giving Up on JavaScript (w2lessons.com)
82 points by mwbiz on Nov 6, 2011 | 65 comments
20.
Jawbone UP Review (shawnwall.tumblr.com)
81 points by shawnwall on Nov 6, 2011 | 27 comments
21.
Show HN: 1M Song Dataset dev in 10 mins (mortardata.com)
77 points by kky on Nov 6, 2011 | 22 comments
22.
Daylight Saving Time is a huge mess (johndcook.com)
76 points by ColinWright on Nov 6, 2011 | 51 comments
23.
Regular Expression Engine in 14 lines of Python (lisp.org)
74 points by okal on Nov 6, 2011 | 38 comments
24.
Obviously Correct: implications for language design (ezyang.com)
66 points by samstokes on Nov 6, 2011 | 24 comments
25.
Music NGram Viewer (peachnote.com)
65 points by sew on Nov 6, 2011 | 11 comments
26.
Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience (nasa.gov)
57 points by js2 on Nov 6, 2011 | 7 comments
27.
Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court Order (torrentfreak.com)
56 points by goatcurious on Nov 6, 2011 | 7 comments
28.
Implementing Regular Expressions (swtch.com)
48 points by acqq on Nov 6, 2011 | 9 comments
29.
Eclim - bringing Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor (eclim.org)
43 points by stralep on Nov 6, 2011 | 12 comments
30.
Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Justified (dadgum.com)
42 points by signa11 on Nov 6, 2011 | 18 comments

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