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1.
Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses (cbslocal.com)
496 points by viggity on Dec 7, 2011 | 298 comments
2.
You've Probably Read Enough (bennesvig.com)
410 points by bennesvig on Dec 7, 2011 | 72 comments
3.
Thoughts on Python 3 (pocoo.org)
302 points by michaelty on Dec 7, 2011 | 118 comments
4.
Please Donate to the Internet Archive (archive.org)
293 points by cleverjake on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
5.
Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
217 points by wave on Dec 7, 2011 | 185 comments
6.
Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page (hanselman.com)
200 points by joeyespo on Dec 7, 2011 | 38 comments
7.
CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads (insecure.org)
192 points by skitzzo on Dec 7, 2011 | 74 comments
8.
What I suspect Google is up to with Native Client (hackerspews.com)
187 points by forgotusername on Dec 7, 2011 | 89 comments
9.
Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub (haacked.com)
181 points by misterbwong on Dec 7, 2011 | 124 comments
10.
Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998. (github.com/welaika)
165 points by steffoz on Dec 7, 2011 | 85 comments
11.
Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd) (deadmemes.net)
156 points by robinhouston on Dec 7, 2011 | 85 comments
12.
After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, We’ve Lost Confidence In PayPal (techcrunch.com)
149 points by dolphenstein on Dec 7, 2011 | 81 comments
13.
Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents (arstechnica.com)
144 points by evo_9 on Dec 7, 2011 | 55 comments
14.
Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second. (dougaitken.tumblr.com)
139 points by dougaitken on Dec 7, 2011 | 29 comments
15.
Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino (appleinsider.com)
137 points by davidedicillo on Dec 7, 2011 | 53 comments
16.
Google Android: The Accidental Empire (nikcub.appspot.com)
133 points by nikcub on Dec 7, 2011 | 115 comments
17.
Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript (elm-lang.org)
132 points by Rusky on Dec 7, 2011 | 50 comments
18.
Can your REPL do this? (whalliburton.github.com)
119 points by whalliburton on Dec 7, 2011 | 35 comments
19.
Five-minute Multimethods in Python (artima.com)
113 points by llambda on Dec 7, 2011 | 48 comments
20.
A better search for visually similar images (cmu.edu)
108 points by pitdesi on Dec 7, 2011 | 11 comments
21.
Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
107 points by gnosis on Dec 7, 2011 | 203 comments
22.
Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images. (msdn.microsoft.com)
103 points by aashu_dwivedi on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
23.
Scala's version fragility makes the enterprise argument near impossible (lift.la)
99 points by LiveTheDream on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
24.
Windows Store Revenue Split (daringfireball.net)
96 points by llambda on Dec 7, 2011 | 47 comments
25.
Bill Gates, China talking about jointly developing nuclear reactor (cbc.ca)
89 points by tilt on Dec 7, 2011 | 40 comments
26.
IntelliJ IDEA 11 is Out (jetbrains.com)
89 points by Garbage on Dec 7, 2011 | 37 comments
27.
How to Add Django Database Caching in 5 Minutes (yipit.com)
87 points by Toddward on Dec 7, 2011 | 13 comments
28.
Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C To Expand Abroad (techcrunch.com)
95 points by coloneltcb on Dec 7, 2011 | 37 comments
29.
If you want to be truly intimidating... (jhnmyr.tumblr.com)
72 points by wallflower on Dec 7, 2011 | 11 comments
30.
Mandelbrot Beats Economics in Fathoming Markets (bloomberg.com)
69 points by goodwinb on Dec 7, 2011 | 57 comments

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