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1.		The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders (phoronix.com)
		420 points by pietrofmaggi on Nov 16, 2010 \| 96 comments
2.		For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic (googleusercontent.com)
		224 points by pc on Nov 16, 2010 \| 57 comments
3.		Google Voice for iPhone Released (googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com)
		209 points by johns on Nov 16, 2010 \| 76 comments
4.		CSS Positioning 101 (alistapart.com)
		190 points by duck on Nov 16, 2010 \| 34 comments
5.		EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly (eff.org)
		167 points by roder on Nov 16, 2010 \| 43 comments
6.		A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" (cookssource.com)
		165 points by callmeed on Nov 16, 2010 \| 115 comments
7.		Incubator Incubator - Making All Your Incubation Dreams Come True (incubatorincubator.com)
		164 points by daniel_levine on Nov 16, 2010 \| 26 comments
8.		GHC 7 is out: Haskell 2010 support; LLVM backend; new optimizer ... (gmane.org)
		158 points by dons on Nov 16, 2010 \| 15 comments
9.		Google Hotpot (google.com)
		155 points by abraham on Nov 16, 2010 \| 71 comments
10.		Zappos offers new employees $3000 to quit after a week (businessweek.com)
		119 points by chrislloyd on Nov 16, 2010 \| 36 comments
11.		Climbing Out of a Slump (trailmeme.com)
		116 points by bhousel on Nov 16, 2010 \| 25 comments
12.		Rails 3.0.3 out - Faster Active Record plus fixes (rubyonrails.org)
		114 points by vijaydev on Nov 16, 2010 \| 12 comments
13.		Resources for Getting Started with Ruby on Rails (engineyard.com)
		115 points by danishkhan on Nov 16, 2010 \| 21 comments
14.		Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (Free e-Book) (inventwithpython.com)
		113 points by jbail on Nov 16, 2010 \| 22 comments
15.		Is it hard to become an Android developer? (kreci.net)
		112 points by kreci on Nov 16, 2010 \| 76 comments
16.		Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office (lifehacker.com)
		100 points by cwan on Nov 16, 2010 \| 37 comments
17.		Hey Google. You should compete with Dropbox. (kent.posterous.com)
		98 points by kentf on Nov 16, 2010 \| 87 comments
18.		What if We Gave Toddlers an 'F' in Walking? (Why Math & Science Ed is Absurd) (chicagoreader.com)
		95 points by theodpHN on Nov 16, 2010 \| 51 comments
19.		Lessons learned from wikipedia's fundraising banner design (wikimedia.org)
		94 points by alexdong on Nov 16, 2010 \| 37 comments
20.		Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part Two (kalzumeus.com)
		93 points by timf on Nov 16, 2010 \| 18 comments
21.		Ask HN: Anyone using Haskell in production?
		91 points by iamelgringo on Nov 16, 2010 \| 36 comments
22.		Expose any Ruby object over the web. An interesting little snippet... (gist.github.com)
		88 points by steveklabnik on Nov 16, 2010 \| 25 comments
23.		Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode are broken and need to be fixed (cxpartners.co.uk)
		87 points by danw on Nov 16, 2010 \| 62 comments
24.		O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng (oreilly.com)
		77 points by drats on Nov 16, 2010 \| 33 comments
25.		Drinking Water Before Meals Aids Weight Loss (nytimes.com)
		76 points by cwan on Nov 16, 2010 \| 38 comments
26.		U2's Natural Logarhythm: Exponential Decay in the Delay of The Edge's Guitar (5cense.com)
		74 points by atularora on Nov 16, 2010 \| 20 comments
27.		Why Facebook badly needs Steve Jobs (raysun.blogspot.com)
		76 points by Kaya on Nov 16, 2010 \| 71 comments
28.		Utterly sensible HTML templating in Common Lisp (trapm.com)
		71 points by sgrove on Nov 16, 2010 \| 48 comments
29.		FB's New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+B Messages a Month (highscalability.com)
		68 points by kapilkaisare on Nov 16, 2010 \| 18 comments
30.		Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars (yahoo.com)
		62 points by absconditus on Nov 16, 2010 \| 60 comments
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