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1.
"Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names (securitynewsdaily.com)
201 points by bengoism on Oct 22, 2011 | 93 comments
2.
How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley (wired.com)
197 points by razin on Oct 22, 2011 | 101 comments
3.
Will Dropouts Save America? (nytimes.com)
187 points by JJMalina on Oct 22, 2011 | 112 comments
4.
An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple (neilkodner.com)
184 points by ot on Oct 22, 2011 | 29 comments
5.
Canadian researcher traces AIDS to single bush hunter from 1921 (theglobeandmail.com)
183 points by rfugger on Oct 22, 2011 | 55 comments
6.
The Setup: Zed Shaw (usesthis.com)
153 points by Umalu on Oct 22, 2011 | 69 comments
7.
Is Tumblr a bot fest? (svenduplic.com)
131 points by ofca on Oct 22, 2011 | 33 comments
8.
"Patent trolls could be the end of Silicon Valley" says Tim O'Reilly (thenextweb.com)
121 points by cjfont on Oct 22, 2011 | 24 comments
9.
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (paulgraham.com)
114 points by hboon on Oct 22, 2011 | 7 comments
10.
Dennis Ritchie, High School Guidance Counselor (codypowell.com)
112 points by codypo on Oct 22, 2011 | 5 comments
11.
Jobs Told Google's Page to Cut Bloat to Avoid Becoming Microsoft (businessweek.com)
112 points by acak on Oct 22, 2011 | 64 comments
12.
3D Cube World Level Generation (sourceforge.net)
109 points by dhotson on Oct 22, 2011 | 5 comments
13.
Facebook: Are You Interfacing with the Russian Mafia & KGB? (2010) (thenewamerican.com)
106 points by 0x12 on Oct 22, 2011 | 43 comments
14.
WebGL X-Wing (moxiecode.com)
100 points by 5hoom on Oct 22, 2011 | 54 comments
15.
Dmr: Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix (bell-labs.com)
93 points by robinhouston on Oct 22, 2011 | 6 comments
16.
Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run (debian.org)
90 points by nexusz99 on Oct 22, 2011 | 30 comments
17.
Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up? (airspacemag.com)
83 points by sajid on Oct 22, 2011 | 79 comments
18.
Rails is not your application (firsthand.ca)
83 points by spooneybarger on Oct 22, 2011 | 29 comments
19.
The Goertzel Algorithm (eetimes.com)
82 points by dhotson on Oct 22, 2011 | 17 comments
20.
A Cultural Thought Experiment (antipope.org)
82 points by russell on Oct 22, 2011 | 32 comments
21.
Bitcoins get physical (casascius.com)
76 points by kitcar on Oct 22, 2011 | 43 comments
22.
Language detection with Google's Compact Language Detector (mikemccandless.com)
75 points by davidw on Oct 22, 2011 | 12 comments
23.
Toshiba announces 2560x1600 6.1" display (anandtech.com)
68 points by shalmanese on Oct 22, 2011 | 43 comments
24.
Reasons to use Guava (insightfullogic.com)
66 points by ooohhhddeeaarrr on Oct 22, 2011 | 48 comments
25.
How to trick C/C++ compilers into generating terrible code? (futurechips.org)
61 points by l0stman on Oct 22, 2011 | 18 comments
26.
"Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive" (theeuropean-magazine.com)
56 points by gruseom on Oct 22, 2011 | 17 comments
27.
Buying Tomorrow (laphamsquarterly.org)
54 points by pg on Oct 22, 2011 | 17 comments
28.
CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (eecs.berkeley.edu)
49 points by ra66it on Oct 22, 2011 | 9 comments
29.
Man vs. Machine: Seven Major Players in High-Frequency Trading (cnbc.com)
47 points by ahalan on Oct 22, 2011 | 8 comments
30.
Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best (code4k.blogspot.com)
47 points by clockwork_189 on Oct 22, 2011

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