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1.
Steve Jobs's Real Genius (newyorker.com)
414 points by iamclovin on Nov 7, 2011 | 145 comments
2.
Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year. (enqueueapp.com)
301 points by overcyn on Nov 7, 2011 | 130 comments
3.
I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords. (github.com/juuso)
227 points by aparadja on Nov 7, 2011 | 117 comments
4.
One-time Secret: Share passwords etc with URIs that work only once (onetimesecret.com)
219 points by delano on Nov 7, 2011 | 104 comments
5.
Something is wrong with this picture. (w3.org)
192 points by Nemmie on Nov 7, 2011 | 81 comments
6.
Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital (facebook.com)
184 points by wijnglas on Nov 7, 2011 | 49 comments
7.
Growl fork maintainer banned from Growl mailinglist after fixing bugs (basementcoders.com)
170 points by anon1385 on Nov 7, 2011 | 71 comments
8.
Handle Incoming Emails like a Pro (Mailgun API 2.0) (mailgun.net)
159 points by old-gregg on Nov 7, 2011 | 23 comments
9.
Revisiting Google App Engine's pricing changes (gregtracy.com)
155 points by southpolesteve on Nov 7, 2011 | 19 comments
10.
The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network (arstechnica.com)
153 points by divy on Nov 7, 2011 | 51 comments
11.
Cinder: open-source creative C++ (libcinder.org)
151 points by kenamarit on Nov 7, 2011 | 22 comments
12.
Guide to Node.js (nodebeginner.org)
151 points by goatcurious on Nov 7, 2011 | 10 comments
13.
Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27 (techcrunch.com)
148 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 7, 2011 | 58 comments
14.
Official Release of Google+ Pages (googleblog.blogspot.com)
144 points by xpressyoo on Nov 7, 2011 | 121 comments
15.
IPhone 4S against all other iPhone models (low light shooting) (campl.us)
138 points by mrpollo on Nov 7, 2011 | 43 comments
16.
Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine (slyphon.com)
127 points by slyphon on Nov 7, 2011 | 52 comments
17.
How can I teach a bright person with no programming experience how to program? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
120 points by ekm2 on Nov 7, 2011 | 108 comments
18.
MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0 (luigimontanez.com)
120 points by joshuacc on Nov 7, 2011 | 49 comments
19.
Scenes from Earth on the Voyager Spacecraft (nasa.gov)
113 points by sama on Nov 7, 2011 | 61 comments
20.
Hubot Play (zachholman.com)
107 points by rsenk330 on Nov 7, 2011 | 18 comments
21.
Smiley Slider (glittle.org)
104 points by john_horton on Nov 7, 2011 | 12 comments
22.
The Tyranny of Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
99 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 7, 2011 | 135 comments
23.
MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology) (seancribbs.com)
100 points by luigi on Nov 7, 2011 | 25 comments
24.
Stross: Klout violates UK privacy laws. (antipope.org)
99 points by tsellon on Nov 7, 2011 | 61 comments
25.
Data-Driven Transformations in Javascript (mbostock.github.com)
95 points by sew on Nov 7, 2011 | 10 comments
26.
If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame (gigaom.com)
94 points by nextparadigms on Nov 7, 2011 | 34 comments
27.
Bias Lighting (codinghorror.com)
92 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 7, 2011 | 34 comments
28.
Pushing the Limits of Amazon S3 Upload Performance (improve.dk)
89 points by sorenbs on Nov 7, 2011 | 17 comments
29.
I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Objective-C fixed that. (red-sweater.com)
85 points by falling on Nov 7, 2011 | 79 comments
30.
Barnes & Noble Officially Unveils The 7-Inch Nook Tablet (techcrunch.com)
81 points by lgv on Nov 7, 2011 | 37 comments

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