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1.
Don't Give Your Users Shit Work (zachholman.com)
410 points by vijaydev on Nov 2, 2011 | 112 comments
2.
College has been oversold (marginalrevolution.com)
299 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 2, 2011 | 239 comments
3.
Dark Sky - Weather Prediction, Reinvented (kickstarter.com)
254 points by huhtenberg on Nov 2, 2011 | 79 comments
4.
The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case (slate.com)
245 points by qxb on Nov 2, 2011 | 133 comments
5.
Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20 (webmonkey.com)
241 points by pdelgallego on Nov 2, 2011 | 38 comments
6.
The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage (arstechnica.com)
238 points by llambda on Nov 2, 2011 | 89 comments
7.
Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal (engadget.com)
220 points by barredo on Nov 2, 2011 | 90 comments
8.
How Khan Academy is using machine learning to assess student mastery (david-hu.com)
224 points by divad12 on Nov 2, 2011 | 46 comments
9.
Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary (arstechnica.com)
210 points by evo_9 on Nov 2, 2011 | 52 comments
10.
Ring Counter Clock: still running after 40 years (jameco.com)
208 points by sp332 on Nov 2, 2011 | 33 comments
11.
Underrated Features of PostgreSQL (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)
185 points by ceyhunkazel on Nov 2, 2011 | 49 comments
12.
Evercube (evercu.be)
175 points by cientifico on Nov 2, 2011 | 61 comments
13.
Meet Korma, a SQL DSL for Clojure (sqlkorma.com)
173 points by ibdknox on Nov 2, 2011 | 44 comments
14.
Yahoo releases nodejs framework (yahoo.com)
155 points by bitsweet on Nov 2, 2011 | 19 comments
15.
Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking. (resume.io)
156 points by jacobbijani on Nov 2, 2011 | 61 comments
16.
Bootstrapping Design (bootstrappingdesign.com)
153 points by timf on Nov 2, 2011 | 68 comments
17.
Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
141 points by Pewpewarrows on Nov 2, 2011 | 116 comments
18.
Be nice. It's a fscking gift (turnkeylinux.org)
137 points by hachiya on Nov 2, 2011 | 37 comments
19.
Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released (sublimetext.com)
132 points by tswicegood on Nov 2, 2011 | 56 comments
20.
Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout (brianshih.com)
127 points by suivix on Nov 2, 2011 | 58 comments
21.
Taking C Seriously (subfurther.com)
127 points by tomh on Nov 2, 2011 | 58 comments
22.
Obliterate Startup Depression (humbledmba.com)
119 points by jaf12duke on Nov 2, 2011 | 11 comments
23.
Asteroid set to come closer to the Earth than the moon Nov. 8 (nasa.gov)
116 points by mccooscoos on Nov 2, 2011 | 72 comments
24.
Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together (asana.com)
118 points by philfreo on Nov 2, 2011 | 60 comments
25.
Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India (nainomics.blogspot.com)
111 points by akarambir on Nov 2, 2011 | 39 comments
26.
Cell-Aging Hack Opens Longevity Research Frontier (wired.com)
103 points by ph0rque on Nov 2, 2011 | 26 comments
27.
Immigrant entrepreneur creates 9 jobs, get kicked out of US (digg.com)
101 points by forgingahead on Nov 2, 2011 | 63 comments
28.
Clojure/West conference has launched (clojurewest.org)
91 points by puredanger on Nov 2, 2011 | 20 comments
29.
Googler: "we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail" (plus.google.com)
85 points by mmastrac on Nov 2, 2011 | 69 comments
30.
Army of 'Socialbots' Steal Gigabytes of Facebook User Data (theregister.co.uk)
85 points by goldins on Nov 2, 2011 | 53 comments

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