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1.		Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes (coloradodaily.com)
		461 points by neverm0re on Nov 7, 2012 \| 182 comments
2.		Washington voters approve legalized marijuana (mynorthwest.com)
		404 points by llambda on Nov 7, 2012 \| 133 comments
3.		The Best (dcurt.is)
		403 points by jordanbrown on Nov 7, 2012 \| 295 comments
4.		The definitive guide to forms based website authentication (stackoverflow.com)
		338 points by mmare on Nov 7, 2012 \| 73 comments
5.		Great design from Apple on an interaction with Siri (37signals.com)
		288 points by joeyespo on Nov 7, 2012 \| 109 comments
6.		Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win (time.com)
		285 points by sek on Nov 7, 2012 \| 133 comments
7.		Why is Rick Santorum Using a Picture of 4Chan Founder Moot on His Website? (betabeat.com)
		233 points by gnarls_manson on Nov 7, 2012 \| 53 comments
8.		Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces (easel.io)
		183 points by mcolyer on Nov 7, 2012 \| 52 comments
9.		Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda. (techcrunch.com)
		173 points by jabo on Nov 7, 2012 \| 97 comments
10.		Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding First Startup (davidhauser.com)
		169 points by dh on Nov 7, 2012 \| 37 comments
11.		The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio (berrebi.org)
		154 points by cypriend on Nov 7, 2012 \| 40 comments
12.		Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs (hacks.mozilla.org)
		157 points by vectorbunny on Nov 7, 2012 \| 50 comments
13.		The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (newcriterion.com)
		141 points by cup on Nov 7, 2012 \| 87 comments
14.		Four African girls create a urine-powered generator (thenextweb.com)
		134 points by jfc on Nov 7, 2012 \| 77 comments
15.		A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance (web.mit.edu)
		110 points by tchalla on Nov 7, 2012 \| 25 comments
16.		Windows 8 is just another way for Microsoft to show you ads (owened.co.nz)
		105 points by owenwil on Nov 7, 2012 \| 100 comments
17.		When You're Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm (npr.org)
		104 points by llambda on Nov 7, 2012 \| 8 comments
18.		The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision (solipsys.co.uk)
		100 points by ColinWright on Nov 7, 2012 \| 43 comments
19.		PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective (acm.org)
		95 points by jnazario on Nov 7, 2012 \| 58 comments
20.		NBC calls it for Barack Obama (nbcnews.com)
		89 points by mmastrac on Nov 7, 2012 \| 51 comments
21.		Kim Dotcom loses new domain in preemptive strike by Gabon government (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by quadrahelix on Nov 7, 2012 \| 38 comments
22.		Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy (jessyoko.com)
		85 points by jesskah on Nov 7, 2012 \| 24 comments
23.		Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild (arstechnica.com)
		83 points by glymor on Nov 7, 2012 \| 30 comments
24.		Apple awarded design patent for actual rounded rectangle (arstechnica.com)
		82 points by Reltair on Nov 7, 2012 \| 54 comments
25.		Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now Open Source (hanselman.com)
		78 points by ot on Nov 7, 2012 \| 7 comments
26.		Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial (squarepoet.com)
		74 points by ronyeh on Nov 7, 2012 \| 48 comments
27.		Rationality for Entrepreneurs: Awesome workshop in the Bay Area (appliedrationality.org)
		78 points by kf on Nov 7, 2012 \| 17 comments
28.		Apartment Radiator Temperature (terg.is)
		70 points by krschultz on Nov 7, 2012 \| 21 comments
29.		Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013 (theregister.co.uk)
		69 points by esalazar on Nov 7, 2012 \| 74 comments
30.		Why our online startup releases a print product, and how we do it. (weddinglovely.com)
		63 points by jewelia on Nov 7, 2012 \| 19 comments
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