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1.		The Hardware Renaissance (paulgraham.com)
		455 points by nqureshi on Oct 23, 2012 \| 206 comments
2.		The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company (asmartbear.com)
		360 points by yannickmahe on Oct 23, 2012 \| 129 comments
3.		GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0 (gitlabhq.com)
		328 points by georgebashi on Oct 23, 2012 \| 100 comments
4.		How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others (wired.com)
		317 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 23, 2012 \| 103 comments
5.		Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account (translate.google.com)
		293 points by EwanToo on Oct 23, 2012 \| 150 comments
6.		If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down (joyent.com)
		289 points by chillax on Oct 23, 2012 \| 164 comments
7.		Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7 (extremetech.com)
		274 points by evo_9 on Oct 23, 2012 \| 179 comments
8.		iPad mini (apple.com)
		262 points by k33l0r on Oct 23, 2012 \| 343 comments
9.		USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung (appleinsider.com)
		216 points by srathi on Oct 23, 2012 \| 85 comments
10.		Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5 (talkweb.eu)
		182 points by dbcooper on Oct 23, 2012 \| 106 comments
11.		Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released (phoronix.com)
		176 points by Garbage on Oct 23, 2012 \| 91 comments
12.		Redis 2.6.0 Released (redis.io)
		174 points by johns on Oct 23, 2012 \| 24 comments
13.		Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient (idonethis.com)
		161 points by mikesun on Oct 23, 2012 \| 42 comments
14.		Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor (rubular.com)
		161 points by arb99 on Oct 23, 2012 \| 36 comments
15.		Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra (extremetech.com)
		153 points by o1iver on Oct 23, 2012 \| 42 comments
16.		Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm (torrentfreak.com)
		141 points by evo_9 on Oct 23, 2012 \| 34 comments
17.		New theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago (discovermagazine.com)
		136 points by suprgeek on Oct 23, 2012 \| 33 comments
18.		Don’t mess with IBM (cringely.com)
		135 points by Toshio on Oct 23, 2012 \| 96 comments
19.		On facing two years for protesting Stop-and-Frisk (theneoprogressive.com)
		102 points by cgarvis on Oct 23, 2012 \| 15 comments
20.		Google Drive desktop client requests login credentials only once (h-online.com)
		100 points by vectorbunny on Oct 23, 2012 \| 23 comments
21.		Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.' (h4ck.in)
		96 points by laumars on Oct 23, 2012 \| 36 comments
22.		The maths that made Voyager possible (bbc.co.uk)
		96 points by nekojima on Oct 23, 2012 \| 27 comments
23.		Memoto Lifelogging Camera (kickstarter.com)
		83 points by hising on Oct 23, 2012 \| 86 comments
24.		Italy Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didn’t Warn of Deadly Earthquake (nytimes.com)
		81 points by japhyr on Oct 23, 2012 \| 18 comments
25.		Brazil enacts new forest code (greenwood-management.com)
		80 points by tigger on Oct 23, 2012 \| 9 comments
26.		Bandwidth breakthrough promises to boost bandwidth tenfold (technologyreview.com)
		79 points by cpeterso on Oct 23, 2012 \| 17 comments
27.		Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT. (apple.com)
		77 points by macuenca on Oct 23, 2012 \| 52 comments
28.		Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Return to TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by ry0ohki on Oct 23, 2012 \| 51 comments
29.		Has AMD's Clock Run Out? (thirdyearmba.com)
		72 points by dlevine on Oct 23, 2012 \| 59 comments
30.		Cloud Block Storage Now In Unlimited Availability (rackspace.com)
		77 points by bretpiatt on Oct 23, 2012 \| 33 comments
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