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1.
Why you should not go to medical school (law.harvard.edu)
351 points by known on Sept 24, 2011 | 173 comments
2.
White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit (technologyreview.com)
318 points by bane on Sept 24, 2011 | 70 comments
3.
SICP optimized for Kindle (github.com/jonathanpatt)
242 points by ique on Sept 24, 2011 | 40 comments
4.
Chrome Privacy (mikewest.org)
200 points by czottmann on Sept 24, 2011 | 99 comments
5.
Feynman On The Importance Of Playing (pythonwise.blogspot.com)
190 points by tebeka on Sept 24, 2011 | 25 comments
6.
37signals sent me a gift for pwning their leaderboard (bengarvey.com)
185 points by bengarvey on Sept 24, 2011 | 18 comments
7.
All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook... (realdanlyons.com)
175 points by thedoctor on Sept 24, 2011 | 69 comments
8.
Hey CS Paper writers, please show your code (jacquesmattheij.com)
140 points by octopus on Sept 24, 2011 | 53 comments
9.
OpenBSD imports nginx into tree as future apache replacement (marc.info)
137 points by b3n on Sept 24, 2011 | 37 comments
10.
How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (fourhourworkweek.com)
124 points by frankdenbow on Sept 24, 2011 | 36 comments
11.
Show HN: TweetBoard.me
124 points by jv22222 on Sept 24, 2011 | 46 comments
12.
Burnout Prevention and Recovery (the MIT stance) (evenmere.org)
101 points by wickedchicken on Sept 24, 2011 | 9 comments
13.
The Milo Criterion (ribbonfarm.com)
95 points by rheide on Sept 24, 2011 | 15 comments
14.
Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
96 points by telemachos on Sept 24, 2011 | 23 comments
15.
Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret (lifehacker.com)
83 points by parallel on Sept 24, 2011 | 37 comments
16.
Today a programmer was born. And you are my mother.
83 points by vnchr on Sept 24, 2011 | 31 comments
17.
Category Theory for Dummies [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
71 points by karlzt on Sept 24, 2011 | 23 comments
18.
MIT Startup Bootcamp [Livestream] (startupbootcamp.mit.edu)
69 points by huangm on Sept 24, 2011 | 9 comments
19.
Ask HN: What API to the physical world do you wish existed?
67 points by lemma on Sept 24, 2011 | 81 comments
20.
Tor and the BEAST SSL attack (torproject.org)
59 points by xtacy on Sept 24, 2011 | 5 comments
21.
VLC for Android (cvpcs.org)
55 points by abraham on Sept 24, 2011 | 7 comments
22.
Ask HN: Founding a startup in New York City?
54 points by sipefree on Sept 24, 2011 | 43 comments
23.
How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology (venturebeat.com)
51 points by jamesbritt on Sept 24, 2011 | 20 comments
24.
Test Driven Development? You've got to be kidding me... (writemoretests.com)
49 points by peteretep on Sept 24, 2011 | 48 comments
25.
How the Yahoo homepage predicts your clicks (theregister.co.uk)
47 points by mjfern on Sept 24, 2011 | 5 comments
26.
Richard Hughes on color management in Linux and GNOME (libregraphicsworld.org)
43 points by Garbage on Sept 24, 2011 | 2 comments
27.
Lesson: Oracle's driving MySQL to open core; don't sign contributor agreement (computerworlduk.com)
43 points by chaostheory on Sept 24, 2011 | 47 comments
28.
AVR ASM Introduction (sites.google.com)
39 points by wollw on Sept 24, 2011 | 11 comments
29.
I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing (arxiv.org)
40 points by programd on Sept 24, 2011 | 2 comments
30.
Beware the Purists, Lest They Kill Your Innovation (joshuablankenship.com)
38 points by joshuacc on Sept 24, 2011 | 10 comments

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