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1.		Hacker News Needs Honeypots (nashcoding.com)
		450 points by tansey on Oct 28, 2011 \| 150 comments
2.		Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (wired.com)
		419 points by there on Oct 28, 2011 \| 119 comments
3.		Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet (glenelkins.com)
		234 points by glenbo on Oct 28, 2011 \| 73 comments
4.		Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today (wired.co.uk)
		230 points by ck2 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 138 comments
5.		Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		212 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 \| 121 comments
6.		How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas (startupbound.com)
		205 points by dberube on Oct 28, 2011 \| 75 comments
7.		On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector (samsaffron.com)
		183 points by sams99 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 72 comments
8.		40 Hour Work Weeks Suck (regehr.org)
		184 points by wglb on Oct 28, 2011 \| 62 comments
9.		Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated (geekwire.com)
		183 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 \| 124 comments
10.		Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
		177 points by mattmanser on Oct 28, 2011 \| 201 comments
11.		Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter (slideshare.net)
		146 points by koevet on Oct 28, 2011 \| 66 comments
12.		Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance (stanfordalumni.org)
		144 points by aroberge on Oct 28, 2011 \| 47 comments
13.		A JavaScript H.264 decoder (github.com/mbebenita)
		142 points by tnajdek on Oct 28, 2011 \| 41 comments
14.		The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users (canonical.com)
		132 points by rlpb on Oct 28, 2011 \| 45 comments
15.		Codecademy (YC S11) Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code (techcrunch.com)
		128 points by nickfrost on Oct 28, 2011 \| 39 comments
16.		Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller (businessweek.com)
		129 points by aab1d on Oct 28, 2011 \| 91 comments
17.		Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels (daringfireball.net)
		113 points by dave1619 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 92 comments
18.		The iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken (iclarified.com)
		106 points by zeratul on Oct 28, 2011 \| 106 comments
19.		Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013 (bloomberg.com)
		104 points by bane on Oct 28, 2011 \| 66 comments
20.		Your FAQ could be answering 40% of support requests and save you 8 hrs/mo (uservoice.com)
		101 points by rrwhite on Oct 28, 2011 \| 34 comments
21.		Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering (phoronix.com)
		90 points by ukdm on Oct 28, 2011 \| 25 comments
22.		Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites (hackaday.com)
		89 points by profquail on Oct 28, 2011 \| 9 comments
23.		Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye (nerdgap.com)
		84 points by wyclif on Oct 28, 2011 \| 108 comments
24.		Build a Simple Twilio Customer Support Line in 10 minutes (moocode.com)
		81 points by moomerman on Oct 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
25.		2D Game Art for Programmers: Part 3 (gamasutra.com)
		76 points by Impossible on Oct 28, 2011 \| 12 comments
26.		Ridejoy (YC S11): Make Some Dough On Your Next Roadtrip (techcrunch.com)
		74 points by llambda on Oct 28, 2011 \| 44 comments
27.		Brain-like, massively parallel computer made from organic molecules (extremetech.com)
		74 points by mrsebastian on Oct 28, 2011 \| 19 comments
28.		Do It Now (stevepavlina.com)
		71 points by 16BitTons on Oct 28, 2011 \| 39 comments
29.		Copyright troll Righthaven ordered to pay $120k in attorney fees (lasvegassun.com)
		71 points by wayneyeager on Oct 28, 2011 \| 6 comments
30.		Show HN: iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on (itunes.apple.com)
		69 points by mmackh on Oct 28, 2011 \| 29 comments
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