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1.
There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe (hanselman.com)
276 points by shawndumas on Oct 16, 2011 | 63 comments
2.
Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t). (washingtonpost.com)
223 points by ABR on Oct 16, 2011 | 115 comments
3.
Show HN: The users behind Hacker News (hnwho.com)
193 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 16, 2011 | 95 comments
4.
Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released (popc64.blogspot.com)
191 points by th0ma5 on Oct 16, 2011 | 51 comments
5.
Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark (ibiblio.org)
176 points by octopus on Oct 16, 2011 | 137 comments
6.
Fibonacci Flim-Flam. (lhup.edu)
168 points by jamesbritt on Oct 16, 2011 | 20 comments
7.
OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family (apache.org)
156 points by Garbage on Oct 16, 2011 | 49 comments
8.
Repairing a dented tuba with magnets (supermagnete.de)
151 points by mixmax on Oct 16, 2011 | 23 comments
9.
Thoughts on porting NumPy to PyPy (technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com)
150 points by johndcook on Oct 16, 2011 | 32 comments
10.
The Shen programming language (shenlanguage.org)
111 points by fogus on Oct 16, 2011 | 37 comments
11.
I want to solve the uploads problem (unfoldthat.com)
95 points by valyagolev on Oct 16, 2011 | 43 comments
12.
I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin (peebs.org)
92 points by nemesisj on Oct 16, 2011 | 60 comments
13.
The Invisible Side of Design (speakerdeck.com)
90 points by cwan on Oct 16, 2011 | 24 comments
14.
Time zone database has new home after lawsuit (ajc.com)
72 points by Garbage on Oct 16, 2011 | 21 comments
15.
Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go?
71 points by samirahmed on Oct 16, 2011 | 23 comments
16.
How much do Apple's factories cost? (asymco.com)
64 points by strandev on Oct 16, 2011 | 16 comments
17.
PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape Any Image on Your Website (wegraphics.net)
63 points by cwan on Oct 16, 2011 | 15 comments
18.
GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub (github.com/icefox)
60 points by icefox on Oct 16, 2011 | 30 comments
19.
Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com)
57 points by ColinWright on Oct 16, 2011 | 19 comments
20.
The Occupy Economy (wsj.com)
56 points by lambtron on Oct 16, 2011 | 50 comments
21.
Why Chef? (devopsanywhere.blogspot.com)
55 points by bryanwb on Oct 16, 2011 | 50 comments
22.
Haskell : polymorphism at value level, not method parameter level (chrisdone.com)
56 points by gtani on Oct 16, 2011 | 8 comments
23.
What is Wealth in America? (forbes.com)
50 points by SanjeevSharma on Oct 16, 2011 | 41 comments
24.
Tell PG: Thanks for the change to the "title" on each page
48 points by ColinWright on Oct 16, 2011 | 10 comments
25.
Harry Porter's Relay Computer (pdx.edu)
43 points by 0x12 on Oct 16, 2011 | 16 comments
26.
Fix TCP slow-start without a kernel patch (for faster page load times) (pp.se)
43 points by ck2 on Oct 16, 2011 | 22 comments
27.
Head To Head: Siri Vs. Google Voice Actions (searchengineland.com)
42 points by dell9000 on Oct 16, 2011 | 19 comments
28.
Occupying My Mind (avc.com)
42 points by mtviewdave on Oct 16, 2011 | 24 comments
29.
A regular expression matcher in 19 lines of Clojure (plus.google.com)
40 points by decklin on Oct 16, 2011 | 10 comments
30.
Siri, Quora, And The Future Of Search (techcrunch.com)
39 points by davidedicillo on Oct 16, 2011 | 24 comments

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