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1.		How to set up a safe and secure Web server (arstechnica.com)
		345 points by chinmoy on Nov 28, 2012 \| 143 comments
2.		Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform (kylerush.net)
		335 points by kylerush on Nov 28, 2012 \| 160 comments
3.		JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules (lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it)
		302 points by pitiburi on Nov 28, 2012 \| 162 comments
4.		Alertify.js (github.com/fabien-d)
		300 points by googletron on Nov 28, 2012 \| 75 comments
5.		The EC2 firewall is broken (daemonology.net)
		286 points by cperciva on Nov 28, 2012 \| 53 comments
6.		Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product (amazon.com)
		286 points by secalex on Nov 28, 2012 \| 93 comments
7.		APIs that will transform the Web in 2013 (alexmaccaw.com)
		231 points by olivercameron on Nov 28, 2012 \| 105 comments
8.		British aerospace company claims biggest engine advance since the jet (reuters.com)
		212 points by james_ash on Nov 28, 2012 \| 104 comments
9.		Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) (hashicorp.com)
		206 points by Argorak on Nov 28, 2012 \| 62 comments
10.		The Great Python.org Redesign (jessenoller.com)
		200 points by LeafStorm on Nov 28, 2012 \| 61 comments
11.		How to travel around the world for a year (2011) (alexmaccaw.com)
		180 points by hpagey on Nov 28, 2012 \| 63 comments
12.		Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25% (techcrunch.com)
		159 points by beingpractical on Nov 28, 2012 \| 26 comments
13.		Linguist claims that English Is a Scandinavian language (uio.no)
		154 points by mikeleeorg on Nov 28, 2012 \| 129 comments
14.		40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone (nyulocal.com)
		153 points by evolve2k on Nov 28, 2012 \| 76 comments
15.		Bitcoin Block #210 000 mined - reward halving (blockchain.info)
		135 points by nelse on Nov 28, 2012 \| 113 comments
16.		Applying the Unix Philosophy to Object-Oriented Design (codeclimate.com)
		135 points by sudonim on Nov 28, 2012 \| 58 comments
17.		Scrub values in JavaScript live (nornagon.github.com)
		128 points by nornagon on Nov 28, 2012 \| 27 comments
18.		Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (readwrite.com)
		127 points by capdiz on Nov 28, 2012 \| 50 comments
19.		GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep (jlebar.com)
		122 points by jlebar on Nov 28, 2012 \| 65 comments
20.		Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? (nytimes.com)
		119 points by mhb on Nov 28, 2012 \| 42 comments
21.		Amazon Maps API (amazon.com)
		118 points by taylorbuley on Nov 28, 2012 \| 25 comments
22.		Would the economy be better off without MBA students? (economist.com)
		112 points by calpaterson on Nov 28, 2012 \| 80 comments
23.		Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage by 20% (techcrunch.com)
		110 points by pajju on Nov 28, 2012 \| 28 comments
24.		Facebook Makes It Official: You Have No Say (dashes.com)
		106 points by phwd on Nov 28, 2012 \| 51 comments
25.		Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe (gethelium.com)
		109 points by nick007 on Nov 28, 2012 \| 78 comments
26.		The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? (pandodaily.com)
		105 points by sethbannon on Nov 28, 2012 \| 52 comments
27.		How to record audio in Chrome with native HTML5 APIs (codeartists.com)
		93 points by rokgregoric on Nov 28, 2012 \| 35 comments
28.		Mathematica 9 Is Released Today (stephenwolfram.com)
		93 points by lispython on Nov 28, 2012 \| 82 comments
29.		DeadDrops - anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing (deaddrops.com)
		79 points by rubyron on Nov 28, 2012 \| 35 comments
30.		Ramp - Rapid Machine Learning prototyping in Python (github.com/kvh)
		77 points by krat0sprakhar on Nov 28, 2012 \| 4 comments
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