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1.
Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
389 points by tossit on Nov 18, 2010 | 142 comments
2.
Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser (railsforzombies.org)
336 points by trevorturk on Nov 18, 2010 | 57 comments
3.
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet (techdirt.com)
298 points by yanw on Nov 18, 2010 | 86 comments
4.
Brave New World banned from High School curriculum (seattleweekly.com)
282 points by mfukar on Nov 18, 2010 | 160 comments
5.
Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism (daringfireball.net)
252 points by mcantelon on Nov 18, 2010 | 128 comments
6.
Ron Paul: Airport Scanners: Enough is Enough (c-spanvideo.org)
244 points by DanielBMarkham on Nov 18, 2010 | 88 comments
7.
Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web (20thingsilearned.com)
148 points by twapi on Nov 18, 2010 | 49 comments
8.
Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act (house.gov)
146 points by hornokplease on Nov 18, 2010 | 47 comments
9.
Dead Code Elimination for Beginners (blog.mozilla.com)
121 points by kinetik on Nov 18, 2010 | 57 comments
10.
The One Thousand Hour Rule (yongfook.com)
116 points by _b8r0 on Nov 18, 2010 | 37 comments
11.
How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio) (justinvincent.com)
108 points by jv22222 on Nov 18, 2010 | 28 comments
12.
Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Facebook javascript? (fbcdn.net)
108 points by party__ on Nov 18, 2010 | 39 comments
13.
Steve Wozniak: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform (engadget.com)
105 points by citizenkeys on Nov 18, 2010 | 107 comments
14.
On Refusing to Disclose Your Salary in a Job Interview (nytimes.com)
106 points by kqr2 on Nov 18, 2010 | 66 comments
15.
Steve Klabnik Quits Job to Work on Hackety Hack (steveklabnik.com)
93 points by dmix on Nov 18, 2010 | 29 comments
16.
Why wreck a blank canvas? (sivers.org)
89 points by gr366 on Nov 18, 2010 | 31 comments
17.
ClojureQL - 1.0.0 now in beta (bestinclass.dk)
91 points by aaw on Nov 18, 2010 | 22 comments
18.
Woz misquoted 'Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone' (engadget.com)
87 points by lotusleaf1987 on Nov 18, 2010 | 35 comments
19.
The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? (1000memories.com)
83 points by jonathanbgood on Nov 18, 2010 | 33 comments
20.
The Linux Programming Interface (man7.org)
83 points by fogus on Nov 18, 2010 | 19 comments
21.
Required Reading (for pythonistas) (ericholscher.com)
83 points by niels on Nov 18, 2010 | 5 comments
22.
Signups increased by 60% after actually removing the signup form (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
80 points by paraschopra on Nov 18, 2010 | 22 comments
23.
Internet blacklist bill COICA one step closer to becoming law (cnet.com)
77 points by starkness on Nov 18, 2010 | 30 comments
24.
Clojure game development wiki (clojure-games.org)
73 points by dkersten on Nov 18, 2010 | 34 comments
25.
Sweden Seeks to Detain Assange (nytimes.com)
74 points by CaptainZapp on Nov 18, 2010 | 66 comments
26.
You probably misunderstand XML (lemire.me)
71 points by msbmsb on Nov 18, 2010 | 29 comments
27.
Comparing MySQL and Postgres 9.0 Replication (theserverside.com)
65 points by rgeorge28 on Nov 18, 2010 | 20 comments
28.
Life after X: Plans for getting rid of the X server in the future (lwn.net)
65 points by eerpini on Nov 18, 2010 | 26 comments
29.
Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook (techcrunch.com)
64 points by davidedicillo on Nov 18, 2010 | 30 comments
30.
Narcissism and Creativity: Intriguing and Troubling Findings (fastcompany.com)
64 points by rblion on Nov 18, 2010 | 13 comments

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