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1.		Microsoft does away with stack ranking (zdnet.com)
		489 points by cnahr on Nov 12, 2013 \| 157 comments
2.		Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt (theguardian.com)
		409 points by sdfjkl on Nov 12, 2013 \| 267 comments
3.		Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help (wired.com)
		392 points by digital55 on Nov 12, 2013 \| 358 comments
4.		Heirloom Chemistry Set (kickstarter.com)
		346 points by fr0sty on Nov 12, 2013 \| 143 comments
5.		FTL: Advanced Edition (ftlgame.com)
		311 points by nuriaion on Nov 12, 2013 \| 142 comments
6.		How long do disk drives last? (backblaze.com)
		311 points by vayan on Nov 12, 2013 \| 158 comments
7.		End of Inception decoded [video] (sourcefed.com)
		279 points by pavanlimo on Nov 12, 2013 \| 121 comments
8.		Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (randomwire.com)
		270 points by spinningarrow on Nov 12, 2013 \| 129 comments
9.		What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming (yinwang0.wordpress.com)
		227 points by roguelynn on Nov 12, 2013 \| 142 comments
10.		Dataset: Databases for lazy people (readthedocs.org)
		204 points by ikuyamada on Nov 12, 2013 \| 49 comments
11.		How I Ate No Food for 30 Days (vice.com)
		213 points by hoov on Nov 12, 2013 \| 287 comments
12.		The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (fpgacomputing.blogspot.com)
		193 points by grinich on Nov 12, 2013 \| 85 comments
13.		Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets (theguardian.com)
		189 points by frank_boyd on Nov 12, 2013 \| 175 comments
14.		Soylent on the latest Vice piece (soylent.me)
		181 points by caublestone on Nov 12, 2013 \| 195 comments
15.		Web.go – Web applications with Go (webgo.io)
		182 points by kissgyorgy on Nov 12, 2013 \| 56 comments
16.		Portable Native Client (chromium.org)
		179 points by amaks on Nov 12, 2013 \| 135 comments
17.		Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools (hacks.mozilla.org)
		180 points by rnyman on Nov 12, 2013 \| 18 comments
18.		$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes (coindesk.com)
		175 points by chaz on Nov 12, 2013 \| 173 comments
19.		The perils of mixing open source and money (heinemeierhansson.com)
		176 points by _pius on Nov 12, 2013 \| 49 comments
20.		Benchmarking Codswallop: Node.js vs. PHP (philsturgeon.co.uk)
		163 points by there4 on Nov 12, 2013 \| 82 comments
21.		Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People (nytimes.com)
		155 points by webjunkie on Nov 12, 2013 \| 287 comments
22.		Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors (insightdatascience.com)
		148 points by jakek on Nov 12, 2013 \| 64 comments
23.		The plot against France (nytimes.com)
		140 points by galactus on Nov 12, 2013 \| 80 comments
24.		The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995) (nytimes.com)
		144 points by kitcar on Nov 12, 2013 \| 71 comments
25.		Show HN: We built our startup in 100 days (giveit100.com)
		147 points by Finbarr on Nov 12, 2013 \| 102 comments
26.		Quant turned whistle blower explains how the market is rigged [video] (cnn.com)
		147 points by gpvos on Nov 12, 2013 \| 100 comments
27.		Google launches Portable Native Client (thenextweb.com)
		125 points by hackhackhack on Nov 12, 2013 \| 111 comments
28.		CyanogenMod Installer Release (cyanogenmod.org)
		119 points by CrazedGeek on Nov 12, 2013 \| 46 comments
29.		MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmful way (use-the-index-luke.com)
		118 points by davvid on Nov 12, 2013 \| 121 comments
30.		Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum (9to5mac.com)
		118 points by iamtechaddict on Nov 12, 2013 \| 18 comments
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