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1.		Signs that you are a bad programmer (yacoset.com)
		450 points by okal on Oct 19, 2011 \| 168 comments
2.		Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years (fogus.me)
		284 points by jashkenas on Oct 19, 2011 \| 53 comments
3.		Google AI Challenge 2011 (aichallenge.org)
		275 points by philf on Oct 19, 2011 \| 68 comments
4.		Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking (michaelgeist.ca)
		215 points by mef on Oct 19, 2011 \| 38 comments
5.		Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For (giftrocket.com)
		207 points by kapilkale on Oct 19, 2011 \| 123 comments
6.		Lytro cameras are ready for preorder. (lytro.com)
		207 points by sahillavingia on Oct 19, 2011 \| 94 comments
7.		Android 4.0 SDK Now Available (android.com)
		182 points by Toddward on Oct 19, 2011 \| 78 comments
8.		How does the iPhone 4S camera stack up against other cameras? (campl.us)
		171 points by brackin on Oct 19, 2011 \| 64 comments
9.		Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps (troyhunt.com)
		168 points by troyhunt on Oct 19, 2011 \| 57 comments
10.		Unofficial Google Advanced Search (jwebnet.net)
		161 points by 0x12 on Oct 19, 2011 \| 15 comments
11.		Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World (apple.com)
		153 points by adeelarshad82 on Oct 19, 2011 \| 23 comments
12.		Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar (rememberthemilk.com)
		150 points by hopeless on Oct 19, 2011 \| 56 comments
13.		Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search (google.com)
		144 points by suivix on Oct 19, 2011 \| 89 comments
14.		Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal" (getsmokesignal.com)
		143 points by mtgentry on Oct 19, 2011 \| 80 comments
15.		How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin (bueno.org)
		137 points by aristus on Oct 19, 2011 \| 47 comments
16.		We Can All Become Job Creators (nytimes.com)
		136 points by kennyma on Oct 19, 2011 \| 93 comments
17.		Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Ice Cream Sandwich (thisismynext.com)
		130 points by turing on Oct 19, 2011 \| 48 comments
18.		IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS (apple.com)
		129 points by dchest on Oct 19, 2011 \| 89 comments
19.		Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole? (globalpost.com)
		123 points by haasted on Oct 19, 2011 \| 86 comments
20.		Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception (forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin)
		118 points by jkuria on Oct 19, 2011 \| 62 comments
21.		Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars (eff.org)
		111 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2011 \| 29 comments
22.		From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms (springwise.com)
		108 points by bond on Oct 19, 2011 \| 35 comments
23.		Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million (techcrunch.com)
		96 points by ssclafani on Oct 19, 2011 \| 45 comments
24.		Go Ahead, Sell My Data (kevinjcurtin.com)
		91 points by granfalloon on Oct 19, 2011 \| 109 comments
25.		Stanford on-line Data Mining Courses ($10k for a certificate) (stanford.edu)
		90 points by zeratul on Oct 19, 2011 \| 36 comments
26.		Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus (cnet.com)
		86 points by AhtiK on Oct 19, 2011 \| 130 comments
27.		Andrew Ng's Classroom Lectures for ML (171.64.93.201)
		82 points by dlo on Oct 19, 2011 \| 13 comments
28.		How to create a (fictional) language in one day (sicher.org)
		81 points by sicher on Oct 19, 2011 \| 19 comments
29.		Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days (plus.google.com)
		79 points by patrickaljord on Oct 19, 2011 \| 36 comments
30.		Work has started on Ruby 2.0 (github.com/ruby)
		80 points by ben_hall on Oct 19, 2011 \| 61 comments
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