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1.		Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license) (macosforge.org)
		395 points by scorchin on Oct 27, 2011 \| 177 comments
2.		Starcraft 2 Automated Player (stanford.edu)
		381 points by nostromo on Oct 27, 2011 \| 43 comments
3.		Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction (stallman.org)
		356 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 27, 2011 \| 391 comments
4.		Why We Moved Off The Cloud (mixpanel.com)
		341 points by btmorex on Oct 27, 2011 \| 151 comments
5.		Rent a Mac in the cloud for development (macincloud.com)
		322 points by mwexler on Oct 27, 2011 \| 171 comments
6.		Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality (readwriteweb.com)
		322 points by jonmwords on Oct 27, 2011 \| 44 comments
7.		RSS Rant (feliciaday.com)
		278 points by hollerith on Oct 27, 2011 \| 101 comments
8.		Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever (eff.org)
		237 points by there on Oct 27, 2011 \| 20 comments
9.		Google+ is now available with Google Apps (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
		200 points by tomkarlo on Oct 27, 2011 \| 48 comments
10.		Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment (itwire.com)
		198 points by darkduck on Oct 27, 2011 \| 326 comments
11.		Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute" (infoq.com)
		181 points by puredanger on Oct 27, 2011 \| 30 comments
12.		The answer is 2011. The question can be brute force. (qbonnard.github.com)
		156 points by qbonnard on Oct 27, 2011 \| 20 comments
13.		Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac (cnn.com)
		155 points by pg on Oct 27, 2011 \| 109 comments
14.		Your DNA may carry a ‘memory’ of your living conditions in childhood (scienceblog.com)
		143 points by pg on Oct 27, 2011 \| 54 comments
15.		You are the nth person alive on earth (bbc.co.uk)
		134 points by snaveint on Oct 27, 2011 \| 57 comments
16.		Dropbox for Teams (dropbox.com)
		120 points by tilt on Oct 27, 2011 \| 64 comments
17.		Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation (visualisingdata.com)
		117 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2011 \| 18 comments
18.		ARM adopts 64-bit architecture (tgdaily.com)
		113 points by codedivine on Oct 27, 2011 \| 48 comments
19.		DARPA: reconstruct shredded documents, win $50,000 (shredderchallenge.com)
		103 points by mef on Oct 27, 2011 \| 49 comments
20.		Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API (arstechnica.com)
		101 points by shawndumas on Oct 27, 2011 \| 83 comments
21.		Punchd - A Loyalty Program (from Google) (getpunchd.com)
		103 points by jedc on Oct 27, 2011 \| 50 comments
22.		Data centers are too reliable (dmerr.tumblr.com)
		93 points by dm_mongodb on Oct 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
23.		The Underground Guide to Press Coverage for Startups (giftrocket.com)
		92 points by kapilkale on Oct 27, 2011 \| 14 comments
24.		Google maps usage fees (programmableweb.com)
		83 points by djd on Oct 27, 2011 \| 46 comments
25.		All your Bayes are belong to us: fun Bayes's Theorem problems. (allendowney.blogspot.com)
		80 points by AllenDowney on Oct 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
26.		Easy To Cancel makes it Easier to Sign Up (gettingmoreawesome.com)
		75 points by hshah on Oct 27, 2011 \| 13 comments
27.		Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder (venturebeat.com)
		75 points by dabent on Oct 27, 2011 \| 55 comments
28.		Lifestyle Startups Stigma (appicurious.com)
		74 points by hristiank on Oct 27, 2011 \| 50 comments
29.		The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident (stackoverflow.com)
		71 points by donohoe on Oct 27, 2011 \| 6 comments
30.		The Jobs book (scripting.com)
		71 points by apress on Oct 27, 2011 \| 71 comments
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