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1.		Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works (cloudflare.com)
		676 points by ColinWright on Nov 6, 2012 \| 154 comments
2.		How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading (jspauld.com)
		551 points by jspaulding on Nov 6, 2012 \| 308 comments
3.		"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style" (jwz.livejournal.com)
		516 points by ahalan on Nov 6, 2012 \| 88 comments
4.		Meet the new Light Table (chris-granger.com)
		362 points by bergie on Nov 6, 2012 \| 101 comments
5.		Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties (techcrunch.com)
		299 points by jaredtking on Nov 6, 2012 \| 141 comments
6.		Steam for Linux Beta Now Available (steampowered.com)
		275 points by mukyu on Nov 6, 2012 \| 87 comments
7.		Bonsai.js: A New Graphics and Animation Library (bonsaijs.org)
		233 points by dhotson on Nov 6, 2012 \| 28 comments
8.		The perfect email (davidgcohen.com)
		170 points by ColinWright on Nov 6, 2012 \| 41 comments
9.		Arq (Mac backup) now works with Glacier (haystacksoftware.com)
		157 points by sreitshamer on Nov 6, 2012 \| 84 comments
10.		Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times (tnr.com)
		152 points by joejohnson on Nov 6, 2012 \| 43 comments
11.		Tesla reports great Q3 results, expects to be cash flow positive by Q4 (engadget.com)
		147 points by filipemonte on Nov 6, 2012 \| 40 comments
12.		Google Election Results (google.com)
		147 points by fjordan on Nov 6, 2012 \| 42 comments
13.		Elite: Dangerous (kickstarter.com)
		143 points by morphics on Nov 6, 2012 \| 71 comments
14.		The Retina MacBook Pro 13” (patrickbgibson.tumblr.com)
		126 points by tomdale on Nov 6, 2012 \| 110 comments
15.		Remind HN: Vote
		118 points by DanielBMarkham on Nov 6, 2012 \| 127 comments
16.		Why Is the Surface So Bad? (slate.com)
		115 points by bergie on Nov 6, 2012 \| 97 comments
17.		DuckDuckGo Plugin: Hacker News Search (duckduckgo.com)
		90 points by sherjilozair on Nov 6, 2012 \| 22 comments
18.		Steam Linux Beta starts today, NVIDIA claims (nvidia.com)
		90 points by pdknsk on Nov 6, 2012 \| 44 comments
19.		Serious Sam 3 Developer: "Gabe Newell did not Overreact on Windows 8" (ubuntuvibes.com)
		89 points by vetler on Nov 6, 2012 \| 62 comments
20.		Inspiritas - a free Bootstrap theme by Ripple (littke.com)
		86 points by littke on Nov 6, 2012 \| 20 comments
21.		Re: “Hey:” – An Analysis of the Obama/Romney Emails
		86 points by bhallen on Nov 6, 2012 \| 22 comments
22.		Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard (solidsmack.com)
		85 points by guavaroo on Nov 6, 2012 \| 60 comments
23.		Why was an Indian man held for sending a tweet? (bbc.co.uk)
		84 points by yati on Nov 6, 2012 \| 41 comments
24.		Poll: What are your primary motivations for doing side projects?
		99 points by anujkk on Nov 6, 2012 \| 74 comments
25.		This machine separates your Skittles into color groups so you don't have to (zagg.com)
		72 points by ColinWright on Nov 6, 2012 \| 22 comments
26.		Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server (arstechnica.com)
		72 points by e1ven on Nov 6, 2012 \| 19 comments
27.		How to sell to large customers (filepicker.io)
		68 points by ananddass on Nov 6, 2012 \| 27 comments
28.		Side projects (swombat.com)
		69 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 6, 2012 \| 30 comments
29.		NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead (arstechnica.com)
		67 points by Reltair on Nov 6, 2012 \| 17 comments
30.		Singapore, where have all your talent gone? (e27.sg)
		65 points by andycroll on Nov 6, 2012 \| 47 comments
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