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1.
Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation? (airspacemag.com)
295 points by bfe on Nov 21, 2011 | 88 comments
2.
Progress against SOPA (mattcutts.com)
279 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 21, 2011 | 61 comments
3.
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. (dashes.com)
276 points by slig on Nov 21, 2011 | 89 comments
4.
How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct (shkrobius.livejournal.com)
269 points by mike_esspe on Nov 21, 2011 | 96 comments
5.
Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
203 points by fezzl on Nov 21, 2011 | 100 comments
6.
How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story (econlib.org)
191 points by barry-cotter on Nov 21, 2011 | 105 comments
7.
GCC 4.7 adds transactional memory extensions for C/C++ (gcc.gnu.org)
178 points by randombit on Nov 21, 2011 | 32 comments
8.
PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot (morepypy.blogspot.com)
160 points by kingkilr on Nov 21, 2011 | 18 comments
9.
EBay acquires Hunch for $80m (uncrunched.com)
158 points by speedracr on Nov 21, 2011 | 93 comments
10.
foo@bar.com is a real email address (bar.com)
153 points by acangiano on Nov 21, 2011 | 91 comments
11.
The True Intent of SOPA (theagilepanda.com)
143 points by stupandaus on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
12.
A crash course in UX (richoakley.com)
137 points by richoakley on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
13.
Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them (sealedabstract.com)
136 points by drewcrawford on Nov 21, 2011 | 23 comments
14.
Peter Thiel: "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough" (techcrunch.com)
116 points by llambda on Nov 21, 2011 | 166 comments
15.
Beware the Alan Turing fetish (jgc.org)
115 points by jgrahamc on Nov 21, 2011 | 41 comments
16.
Free Online Courses from Top Universities (openculture.com)
112 points by jnand on Nov 21, 2011 | 12 comments
17.
What I Learned Building the Apple Store (hbr.org)
106 points by tilt on Nov 21, 2011 | 56 comments
18.
Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster (stopcensorship.org)
101 points by trusche on Nov 21, 2011 | 57 comments
19.
Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password (threatpost.com)
98 points by 01PH on Nov 21, 2011 | 44 comments
20.
China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
97 points by bdr on Nov 21, 2011 | 45 comments
21.
Burning a NeXT Magnesium Cube (simson.net)
96 points by aaronjg on Nov 21, 2011 | 20 comments
22.
Randy Pausch Day (cmu.edu)
94 points by sidwyn on Nov 21, 2011 | 9 comments
23.
Iterating Towards Bethlehem (rifters.com)
86 points by bane on Nov 21, 2011 | 7 comments
24.
A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News. (github.com/nicksergeant)
86 points by nicksergeant on Nov 21, 2011 | 23 comments
25.
Show HN: Guided Recipe Creation (recipelabs.com)
79 points by kbrower on Nov 21, 2011 | 48 comments
26.
Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert (recursivity.com)
80 points by wfaler on Nov 21, 2011 | 31 comments
27.
Equity Investment Simulation: Illustrating Dilution (ownyourventure.com)
79 points by snampall on Nov 21, 2011 | 13 comments
28.
Your images are a virus. They are everywhere on the Internet (hanselman.com)
75 points by joeyespo on Nov 21, 2011 | 19 comments
29.
Copyright isn't working, says European Commission (zdnet.co.uk)
76 points by pwg on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
30.
Your own movie database in 5 minutes with IMDb API and Perl (bobbelderbos.com)
70 points by bbelderbos on Nov 21, 2011 | 44 comments

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