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1.
Fuck passwords (veekun.com)
655 points by vetler on Dec 5, 2011 | 240 comments
2.
Google can be used as a graphic calculator (google.com)
400 points by bpierre on Dec 5, 2011 | 75 comments
3.
Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy (plus.google.com)
330 points by andrewmunn on Dec 5, 2011 | 115 comments
4.
I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore (hbr.org)
332 points by azazo on Dec 5, 2011 | 128 comments
5.
NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star (nasa.gov)
328 points by DonnyV on Dec 5, 2011 | 111 comments
6.
Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children (washingtonpost.com)
322 points by joejohnson on Dec 5, 2011 | 221 comments
7.
Knyle Style Sheets (warpspire.com)
267 points by fbuilesv on Dec 5, 2011 | 26 comments
8.
Ordered List is a GitHubber (github.com/blog)
249 points by tanoku on Dec 5, 2011 | 15 comments
9.
MemShrink progress report, week 23 (blog.mozilla.com)
211 points by llambda on Dec 5, 2011 | 88 comments
10.
Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India (jpl-consulting.com)
178 points by jplarson on Dec 5, 2011 | 131 comments
11.
Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees (notdot.net)
177 points by llambda on Dec 5, 2011 | 13 comments
12.
Researchers 'speak' to dolphins in their own language (wakeup-world.com)
157 points by auxbuss on Dec 5, 2011 | 34 comments
13.
How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning? (swanson.github.com)
157 points by biesnecker on Dec 5, 2011 | 67 comments
14.
Be careful what you put in an email (om.wordpress.com)
139 points by kunle on Dec 5, 2011 | 70 comments
15.
The Techcrunch Embargo (arcticstartup.com)
132 points by vilpponen on Dec 5, 2011 | 39 comments
16.
Tell HN: How to get back at your start-up husband
119 points by christeen on Dec 5, 2011 | 20 comments
17.
France starts opening its data (gouv.fr)
111 points by geoffroy on Dec 5, 2011 | 12 comments
18.
Show HN: "Programming is for Anyone" (bastardsbook.com)
105 points by danso on Dec 5, 2011 | 21 comments
19.
Appify-UI - Create the simplest possible Mac OS X apps, using HTML5 for the UI (github.com/subtlegradient)
93 points by dwynings on Dec 5, 2011 | 19 comments
20.
Show HN: Virtual Angel Investing market (built on AngelList) (angelsq.co)
97 points by railsjedi on Dec 5, 2011 | 24 comments
21.
Why Do So Many Gifted Kids Think They Don't like Math? (talentigniter.com)
91 points by tokenadult on Dec 5, 2011 | 94 comments
22.
What is INDECT? (stopp-indect.info)
87 points by stfu on Dec 5, 2011 | 20 comments
23.
Amon - web application debugging and monitoring toolkit (github.com/martinrusev)
88 points by martin_rusev on Dec 5, 2011 | 28 comments
24.
Kaspersky Dumps Anti-Piracy Group in SOPA Protest (torrentfreak.com)
84 points by bane on Dec 5, 2011 | 20 comments
25.
SQL and NoSQL are two sides of the same coin, mathematically (acm.org)
83 points by 6ren on Dec 5, 2011 | 18 comments
26.
India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content (nytimes.com)
81 points by narad on Dec 5, 2011 | 58 comments
27.
Most startups are spending money too fast. Slow it down. (humbledmba.com)
80 points by benehmke on Dec 5, 2011 | 33 comments
28.
Looking for a Job? Learn Ruby, Python and be a Team Player (infographic) (infochimps.com)
80 points by ddw on Dec 5, 2011 | 38 comments
29.
Behind RIM’s $485M Write-off (mondaynote.com)
73 points by azazo on Dec 5, 2011 | 38 comments
30.
Convert Any Webpage to an Image (linkpeek.com)
73 points by foxhop on Dec 5, 2011 | 71 comments

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