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1.		I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make (reddit.com)
		601 points by amirmc on Nov 29, 2011 \| 277 comments
2.		US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (arstechnica.com)
		434 points by gigawatt on Nov 29, 2011 \| 216 comments
3.		How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow? (stackoverflow.com)
		380 points by sathyabhat on Nov 29, 2011 \| 74 comments
4.		"What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm (eseanews.com)
		339 points by janineyoong on Nov 29, 2011 \| 101 comments
5.		Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years (ftc.gov)
		201 points by count_zero on Nov 29, 2011 \| 131 comments
6.		Yammer moving from Scala to Java (joda.org)
		187 points by Jd on Nov 29, 2011 \| 86 comments
7.		Realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps (getspool.com)
		184 points by rubyorchard on Nov 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
8.		Little Printer prints you a beautiful mini-newspaper. (bergcloud.com)
		181 points by steren on Nov 29, 2011 \| 78 comments
9.		Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		179 points by sahaj on Nov 29, 2011 \| 118 comments
10.		Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373) (scottaaronson.com)
		166 points by davepeck on Nov 29, 2011 \| 52 comments
11.		Stanford Free Class: Computer Security (security-class.org)
		144 points by myffical on Nov 29, 2011 \| 16 comments
12.		EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language (osnews.com)
		141 points by thomholwerda on Nov 29, 2011 \| 14 comments
13.		Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch (getinpulse.com)
		139 points by erohead on Nov 29, 2011 \| 63 comments
14.		Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof (geek.com)
		129 points by ukdm on Nov 29, 2011 \| 33 comments
15.		Show HN: elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis) (hastebin.com)
		131 points by seejohnrun on Nov 29, 2011 \| 68 comments
16.		Documents Reveal TSA Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		124 points by georgecmu on Nov 29, 2011 \| 43 comments
17.		Avout: Distributed State in Clojure (clojure.com)
		121 points by fogus on Nov 29, 2011 \| 5 comments
18.		The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum (wired.com)
		113 points by cwan on Nov 29, 2011 \| 29 comments
19.		Another free course: Model Thinking (modelthinker-class.org)
		106 points by corey on Nov 29, 2011 \| 22 comments
20.		API Half-lives (gabrielweinberg.com)
		106 points by bjplink on Nov 29, 2011 \| 44 comments
21.		Think you understand Monty Hall? Try the Tuesday boy problem. (scienceblogs.com)
		106 points by ColinWright on Nov 29, 2011 \| 141 comments
22.		WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds (blog.wordpress.com)
		106 points by Urgo on Nov 29, 2011 \| 28 comments
23.		Fuzzy string search (ntz-develop.blogspot.com)
		104 points by Animus7 on Nov 29, 2011 \| 9 comments
24.		Programming languages cannot be copyrighted, says senior EU court adviser (itworld.com)
		98 points by abennett on Nov 29, 2011 \| 15 comments
25.		X86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered (plus.google.com)
		97 points by andrewmunn on Nov 29, 2011 \| 78 comments
26.		Tornado twice as fast with PyPy 1.7 compared to Python 2.7 (groups.google.com)
		85 points by peterbe on Nov 29, 2011 \| 22 comments
27.		Why Noir doesn't have controllers (groups.google.com)
		83 points by Mariel on Nov 29, 2011 \| 23 comments
28.		Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job (theregister.co.uk)
		83 points by abhishektwr on Nov 29, 2011 \| 17 comments
29.		SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player Now Free & Unlimited, Real-Time Stats & More (jilion.com)
		81 points by aidanhornsby on Nov 29, 2011 \| 18 comments
30.		Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate, A Small Experiment (alexn.org)
		75 points by bad_user on Nov 29, 2011 \| 43 comments
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