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1.
If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong (calnewport.com)
259 points by brianwillis on Nov 11, 2011 | 55 comments
2.
Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use (readwriteweb.com)
253 points by jzb on Nov 11, 2011 | 132 comments
3.
Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu? (extremetech.com)
238 points by mrsebastian on Nov 11, 2011 | 186 comments
4.
Google Engineer: What I learned in the war (cnn.com)
232 points by andrewvalish on Nov 11, 2011 | 73 comments
5.
Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video) (bbc.co.uk)
224 points by unfasten on Nov 11, 2011 | 44 comments
6.
Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV (simplecv.org)
221 points by LiveTheDream on Nov 11, 2011 | 43 comments
7.
EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels. (bbc.co.uk)
212 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 11, 2011 | 113 comments
8.
Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want (shapecatcher.com)
210 points by ChrisArchitect on Nov 11, 2011 | 63 comments
9.
10x XSS on apple.com (nilsjuenemann.de)
172 points by nilsjuenemann on Nov 11, 2011 | 51 comments
10.
"I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone." (msdn.com)
166 points by pavel_lishin on Nov 11, 2011 | 69 comments
11.
Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
156 points by mikeyk on Nov 11, 2011 | 66 comments
12.
Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive (fakecall.net)
142 points by llambda on Nov 11, 2011 | 56 comments
13.
Vertical vs. grid product listings - a surprising AB test (westiseast.co.uk)
131 points by westiseast on Nov 11, 2011 | 57 comments
14.
YC Interview Advice From a Guy Who Got An Interview and Didn’t Get Accepted (plus.google.com)
125 points by nhashem on Nov 11, 2011 | 21 comments
15.
Technologies often called part of HTML5 that aren't (developer.mozilla.org)
121 points by asto on Nov 11, 2011 | 35 comments
16.
All Programming is Web Programming (codinghorror.com)
115 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 11, 2011 | 36 comments
17.
Online services our startup subscribes to (ye.gg)
111 points by epi0Bauqu on Nov 11, 2011 | 29 comments
18.
The Go Programming Language turns two (golang.org)
109 points by enneff on Nov 11, 2011 | 25 comments
19.
NYTimes November 11, 1911 (nytimes.com)
104 points by llambda on Nov 11, 2011 | 44 comments
20.
Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords (reddit.com)
103 points by 8ig8 on Nov 11, 2011 | 27 comments
21.
Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value (smashingmagazine.com)
92 points by deepakjois on Nov 11, 2011 | 26 comments
22.
Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie (edmundjorgensen.com)
87 points by tomheon on Nov 11, 2011 | 17 comments
23.
The Real Pirates Of Silicon Valley? (techcrunch.com)
81 points by nickfrost on Nov 11, 2011 | 27 comments
24.
Scaling Erlang to run on machines with hundreds of thousands of cores (erlang-solutions.com)
75 points by adg001 on Nov 11, 2011 | 23 comments
25.
Creating Languages in Racket: Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap (acm.org)
74 points by CowboyRobot on Nov 11, 2011 | 8 comments
26.
Developer: “Losing Control of Our Destiny to Apple” (macobserver.com)
69 points by digiwizard on Nov 11, 2011 | 31 comments
27.
BicaVM: A JVM in JavaScript (github.com/nurv)
66 points by arturventura on Nov 11, 2011 | 25 comments
28.
Offer HN: I'll work on interesting projects for free (goshakkk.name)
55 points by goshakkk on Nov 11, 2011 | 45 comments
29.
In Defense Of The Stylus (techcrunch.com)
55 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 11, 2011 | 30 comments
30.
Logitech CEO: Google TV a 'gigantic mistake' (theregister.co.uk)
54 points by taylorbuley on Nov 11, 2011 | 37 comments

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