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1.		Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT (boingboing.net)
		687 points by andrewdumont on Nov 16, 2011 \| 111 comments
2.		SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live (house.gov)
		485 points by bproper on Nov 16, 2011 \| 253 comments
3.		Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (alexmaccaw.co.uk)
		485 points by maccman on Nov 16, 2011 \| 148 comments
4.		Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe (geek.com)
		422 points by ukdm on Nov 16, 2011 \| 122 comments
5.		A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history (matthewweathers.com)
		272 points by pud on Nov 16, 2011 \| 66 comments
6.		Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100 (arstechnica.com)
		207 points by evo_9 on Nov 16, 2011 \| 122 comments
7.		Williams: Master of the "Come From" (github.com/raganwald)
		195 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 \| 40 comments
8.		What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)
		176 points by andrewvalish on Nov 16, 2011 \| 33 comments
9.		RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases (extremetech.com)
		168 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 \| 76 comments
10.		TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners (propublica.org)
		165 points by danso on Nov 16, 2011 \| 36 comments
11.		Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate by 10x (extremetech.com)
		158 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 \| 71 comments
12.		Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination. (thenextweb.com)
		157 points by soy714 on Nov 16, 2011 \| 24 comments
13.		Readability service to become free (readability.com)
		154 points by andycroll on Nov 16, 2011 \| 61 comments
14.		John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers (cycle-gap.blogspot.com)
		152 points by rams on Nov 16, 2011 \| 142 comments
15.		Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?
		144 points by Archio on Nov 16, 2011 \| 24 comments
16.		Scoble: Why I'm treating startups more critically lately (plus.google.com)
		140 points by domino on Nov 16, 2011 \| 63 comments
17.		How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (brentozar.com)
		132 points by jswinghammer on Nov 16, 2011 \| 54 comments
18.		Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service (itunes.apple.com)
		131 points by phil on Nov 16, 2011 \| 38 comments
19.		Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009) (johndcook.com)
		123 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 \| 76 comments
20.		Why we’re working our young people too hard (lkd.cc)
		124 points by ZenJosh on Nov 16, 2011 \| 109 comments
21.		Life Below 600px (iampaddy.com)
		121 points by bmaeser on Nov 16, 2011 \| 36 comments
22.		How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive (jgc.org)
		119 points by jgrahamc on Nov 16, 2011 \| 111 comments
23.		The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ (xda-developers.com)
		120 points by maqr on Nov 16, 2011 \| 20 comments
24.		Show HN: HourlyPuppy (heroku.com)
		118 points by jfi on Nov 16, 2011 \| 52 comments
25.		Why Is Payroll Hard - Ron Jeffries (c2.com)
		108 points by chrismealy on Nov 16, 2011 \| 52 comments
26.		Yipit Django Blog: Why You Need a Git Pre-Commit Hook (yipit.com)
		108 points by nantes on Nov 16, 2011 \| 19 comments
27.		Ask HN: Please stop "This."
		102 points by juiceandjuice on Nov 16, 2011 \| 71 comments
28.		Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores (nwsource.com)
		101 points by jhack on Nov 16, 2011 \| 39 comments
29.		Announcing Cappuccino 0.9.5 (cappuccino.org)
		94 points by Me1000 on Nov 16, 2011 \| 20 comments
30.		The Movie Set That Ate Itself (gq.com)
		87 points by Titanous on Nov 16, 2011 \| 12 comments
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