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1.		Surprisingly undervalued books (nabeelqu.com)
		285 points by nqureshi on Oct 14, 2012 \| 95 comments
2.		Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 (books.google.com)
		270 points by mike_esspe on Oct 14, 2012 \| 27 comments
3.		Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today (redbullstratos.com)
		262 points by thehodge on Oct 14, 2012 \| 138 comments
4.		Exotic data structures (concatenative.org)
		248 points by wslh on Oct 14, 2012 \| 25 comments
5.		Pattern - Web Mining Python lib (github.com/clips)
		183 points by interro on Oct 14, 2012 \| 14 comments
6.		Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery (imperavi.com)
		183 points by deveshz on Oct 14, 2012 \| 82 comments
7.		The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent (nytimes.com)
		143 points by wallflower on Oct 14, 2012 \| 185 comments
8.		EA “Gives Away” 1000s Of Free Games Due To No Server-Side Validation (minimaxir.com)
		135 points by minimaxir on Oct 14, 2012 \| 103 comments
9.		Open Data Structures: an open content textbook (opendatastructures.org)
		124 points by cdelahousse on Oct 14, 2012 \| 6 comments
10.		YouTube's top 1,000 channels average $23K each month in ad revenue (readwriteweb.com)
		111 points by vindicated on Oct 14, 2012 \| 40 comments
11.		Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla) (github.com/mozilla)
		107 points by redment on Oct 14, 2012 \| 26 comments
12.		Game Over (antirez.com)
		105 points by slig on Oct 14, 2012 \| 94 comments
13.		Massive data leak in New Zealand government servers (publicaddress.net)
		97 points by oreilly on Oct 14, 2012 \| 38 comments
14.		Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion (farukat.es)
		91 points by roguecoder on Oct 14, 2012 \| 134 comments
15.		SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion (railsrumble.com)
		91 points by anu_gupta on Oct 14, 2012 \| 29 comments
16.		Suddenly everyone wants New Yorker style content. Who is going to write it? (pandodaily.com)
		86 points by acangiano on Oct 14, 2012 \| 72 comments
17.		Homemade thermal camera (ieee.org)
		86 points by Kliment on Oct 14, 2012 \| 16 comments
18.		James Joyce's "Ulysses": Why you should read this book (economist.com)
		81 points by pclark on Oct 14, 2012 \| 71 comments
19.		Little Nemo in Google-land (google.co.jp)
		81 points by evoxed on Oct 14, 2012 \| 22 comments
20.		Linux TCP/IP Tuning for Scalability (engineyard.com)
		81 points by bluesmoon on Oct 14, 2012 \| 4 comments
21.		Show HN: idea for the future of document editing (doc-edit.herokuapp.com)
		81 points by sonier on Oct 14, 2012 \| 50 comments
22.		The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive (extremetech.com)
		72 points by mrsebastian on Oct 14, 2012 \| 9 comments
23.		An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens (fastcompany.com)
		71 points by jayzee on Oct 14, 2012 \| 11 comments
24.		Half Of Great Barrier Reef Lost Over Past 27 Years (singularityhub.com)
		71 points by olalonde on Oct 14, 2012 \| 25 comments
25.		Kube - CSS framework (imperavi.com)
		70 points by parmgrewal on Oct 14, 2012 \| 28 comments
26.		Roy Bates, Founder of Sealand, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
		63 points by rglovejoy on Oct 14, 2012 \| 13 comments
27.		Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January) (hackaday.com)
		60 points by bootload on Oct 14, 2012 \| 28 comments
28.		Commit Logs From Last Night (commitlogsfromlastnight.com)
		57 points by creativityhurts on Oct 14, 2012 \| 18 comments
29.		Observations on what's getting downvoted, with some dissected specimens (arstechnica.com)
		58 points by co_pl_te on Oct 14, 2012 \| 38 comments
30.		Tech Journalism is Broken (stupidiswinning.tumblr.com)
		55 points by toomuchblah on Oct 14, 2012 \| 29 comments
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