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1.		Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents (wired.com)
		355 points by mtgx on Nov 1, 2012 \| 98 comments
2.		Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on front page until Dec 14th (engadget.com)
		308 points by cskau on Nov 1, 2012 \| 233 comments
3.		Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it. (danhulton.com)
		292 points by DanHulton on Nov 1, 2012 \| 122 comments
4.		Why you should take your 20's seriously (jasonevanish.com)
		235 points by jevanish on Nov 1, 2012 \| 166 comments
5.		Do You Wanna Touch (codinghorror.com)
		225 points by co_pl_te on Nov 1, 2012 \| 143 comments
6.		Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)
		222 points by whoishiring on Nov 1, 2012 \| 261 comments
7.		Programming is a Pop Culture (raganwald.posterous.com)
		220 points by raganwald on Nov 1, 2012 \| 115 comments
8.		Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong (theatlantic.com)
		200 points by ColinWright on Nov 1, 2012 \| 177 comments
9.		Mario 3 recreated with CSS3 animations and media queries (developer.mozilla.org)
		170 points by dragongraphics on Nov 1, 2012 \| 44 comments
10.		Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India (thehindu.com)
		167 points by ashray on Nov 1, 2012 \| 81 comments
11.		Goldeneye 64's inspirational startup story (alexbaldwin.com)
		163 points by alexkiwi on Nov 1, 2012 \| 74 comments
12.		Kim Dotcom's new Mega project (kim.com)
		161 points by dutchbrit on Nov 1, 2012 \| 136 comments
13.		Show HN: UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did. (github.com/jacobsevart)
		149 points by superuser2 on Nov 1, 2012 \| 57 comments
14.		George Lucas Will Use Disney $4 Billion to Fund Education (hollywoodreporter.com)
		146 points by waterlesscloud on Nov 1, 2012 \| 92 comments
15.		We're shutting down ArcticStartup - please help my team find work (arcticstartup.com)
		144 points by vilpponen on Nov 1, 2012 \| 31 comments
16.		New EC2 Standard Instances and Price Reductions (aws.typepad.com)
		129 points by jeffbarr on Nov 1, 2012 \| 66 comments
17.		Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained (arstechnica.com)
		127 points by shawndumas on Nov 1, 2012 \| 14 comments
18.		Build your own FPGA (notdot.net)
		112 points by VeXocide on Nov 1, 2012 \| 39 comments
19.		HTML5 Mythbusting (hacks.mozilla.org)
		111 points by caludio on Nov 1, 2012 \| 35 comments
20.		Warning to YC applicants: We're going to restart HN tonight
		103 points by pg on Nov 1, 2012 \| 69 comments
21.		Levels of programmers (2009) (codinghorror.com)
		100 points by napolux on Nov 1, 2012 \| 38 comments
22.		Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft (kickstarter.com)
		99 points by iamwil on Nov 1, 2012 \| 18 comments
23.		OpenBSD 5.2 released (undeadly.org)
		96 points by protomyth on Nov 1, 2012 \| 75 comments
24.		Ruby 2.0 patch that could make Rails startup 2.2x faster (ruby-lang.org)
		95 points by lest on Nov 1, 2012 \| 20 comments
25.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)
		94 points by whoishiring on Nov 1, 2012 \| 122 comments
26.		Webshell.io: the shell for scripting and combining APIs in Javascript (webshell.io)
		88 points by mehdim on Nov 1, 2012 \| 33 comments
27.		Startups that TechCrunch missed out on – October 2012 (startupplays.com)
		87 points by chehoebunj on Nov 1, 2012 \| 21 comments
28.		Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications (emergentone.com)
		85 points by kevinpfab on Nov 1, 2012 \| 31 comments
29.		The most common failure mode is failing to show up (ryanwaggoner.com)
		82 points by ryanwaggoner on Nov 1, 2012 \| 25 comments
30.		Why an Airline That Travelers Love Is Failing (time.com)
		80 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 1, 2012 \| 86 comments
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