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1.		Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft (allthingsd.com)
		357 points by gabbo on Nov 13, 2012 \| 221 comments
2.		Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012) (salon.com)
		304 points by pnathan on Nov 13, 2012 \| 237 comments
3.		Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S (motortrend.com)
		291 points by turing on Nov 13, 2012 \| 106 comments
4.		Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts (pocketables.com)
		277 points by masto on Nov 13, 2012 \| 124 comments
5.		A SSD in Your Pocket (codinghorror.com)
		264 points by vetler on Nov 13, 2012 \| 165 comments
6.		Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes (thenextweb.com)
		246 points by kevinSuttle on Nov 13, 2012 \| 207 comments
7.		Commercial freedom (37signals.com)
		191 points by scott_meade on Nov 13, 2012 \| 73 comments
8.		Taobao.com breaks record for online sales in a day - $3.1 billion USD (westiseast.co.uk)
		173 points by westiseast on Nov 13, 2012 \| 119 comments
9.		How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to PostgreSQL with no downtime (lanyrd.com)
		154 points by simonw on Nov 13, 2012 \| 58 comments
10.		Life in the Universe (hawking.org.uk)
		148 points by kamaal on Nov 13, 2012 \| 75 comments
11.		Starbucks, Google and Amazon: the tax crash of Monday afternoon (taxresearch.org.uk)
		143 points by Cbasedlifeform on Nov 13, 2012 \| 197 comments
12.		Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine (readwrite.com)
		142 points by neya on Nov 13, 2012 \| 138 comments
13.		HN saved us millions; we need to change our name (fromholden.com)
		129 points by wsul on Nov 13, 2012 \| 112 comments
14.		Wingman: Git + GitHub + OS X (wingmanapp.com)
		126 points by basil on Nov 13, 2012 \| 66 comments
15.		Taobao's branch of Nginx (taobao.org)
		121 points by ujeezy on Nov 13, 2012 \| 34 comments
16.		Google Nexus 4 Review (anandtech.com)
		122 points by sciwiz on Nov 13, 2012 \| 122 comments
17.		All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken (tonyarcieri.com)
		112 points by bascule on Nov 13, 2012 \| 128 comments
18.		Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown (socrates.io)
		116 points by ianstormtaylor on Nov 13, 2012 \| 44 comments
19.		Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia) (gizmodo.com.au)
		111 points by tdfx on Nov 13, 2012 \| 83 comments
20.		Basic Option Strategies (datanitro.com)
		110 points by karamazov on Nov 13, 2012 \| 83 comments
21.		Netflix Open Source (netflix.github.com)
		98 points by Garbage on Nov 13, 2012 \| 50 comments
22.		First robots have arrived in plan to replace 1 million Foxconn workers (singularityhub.com)
		94 points by Reltair on Nov 13, 2012 \| 81 comments
23.		Amicus (YC S12) Pulls In $3.2M To Bring Social Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by sethbannon on Nov 13, 2012 \| 7 comments
24.		How To Hire A Data Scientist (bright.com)
		91 points by mlmilleratmit on Nov 13, 2012 \| 48 comments
25.		How to name your startup: A 9 month first-hand journey through rebranding (learndot.com)
		90 points by paulitex on Nov 13, 2012 \| 46 comments
26.		All-in-one iPad Mount and Stand (kickstarter.com)
		84 points by tudorizer on Nov 13, 2012 \| 49 comments
27.		Places to Start Acquiring Users (growhack.com)
		84 points by mattangriffel on Nov 13, 2012 \| 21 comments
28.		Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks (by Jeff Dean et al) (research.google.com)
		80 points by michael_nielsen on Nov 13, 2012 \| 39 comments
29.		Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent (wired.com)
		79 points by Quekster on Nov 13, 2012 \| 72 comments
30.		A Founder's Constant State of Rejection (founderdating.com)
		77 points by smirksirlot on Nov 13, 2012 \| 12 comments
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