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1. Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. (boingboing.net)
588 points by Flemlord on Nov 4, 2009 | 287 comments
2. The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X (dustincurtis.com)
323 points by arjunlall on Nov 4, 2009 | 98 comments
3. How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor (venturebeat.com)
214 points by transburgh on Nov 4, 2009 | 21 comments
4. Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino (gomockingbird.com)
166 points by boucher on Nov 4, 2009 | 52 comments
5. Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger (zoho.com)
161 points by suprgeek on Nov 4, 2009 | 55 comments
6. 40 years ago today...
150 points by pg on Nov 4, 2009 | 37 comments
7. Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? (inc.com)
140 points by johns on Nov 4, 2009 | 82 comments
8. It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests (msdn.com)
103 points by bensummers on Nov 4, 2009 | 69 comments
9. Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history (opera.com)
100 points by fogus on Nov 4, 2009 | 66 comments
10. NodeBox - beautiful visuals with Python (nodebox.net)
83 points by timf on Nov 4, 2009 | 15 comments
11. Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft (dondodge.typepad.com)
82 points by steveplace on Nov 4, 2009 | 25 comments
12. Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io (tweetrad.io)
77 points by wsbail29 on Nov 4, 2009 | 47 comments
13. Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters (alertdebugging.com)
75 points by boucher on Nov 4, 2009 | 21 comments
14. A great physicist, and how he worked (lbl.gov)
65 points by herdrick on Nov 4, 2009 | 7 comments
15. Ask HN: the road to learning useful math
59 points by Torn on Nov 4, 2009 | 32 comments
16. FatELF is no more. Linux developer community owned Ryan Gordon. (icculus.org)
59 points by jeff18 on Nov 4, 2009 | 60 comments
17. Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego (andrewlipson.com)
59 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 4, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 (nytimes.com)
57 points by robg on Nov 4, 2009 | 13 comments
19. Firefox finally passes IE6 (arstechnica.com)
56 points by newsit on Nov 4, 2009 | 45 comments
20. Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead? (bl4cksecurity.blogspot.com)
53 points by nrr on Nov 4, 2009 | 22 comments
21. Micro-documentary on "A cool tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet" (faircompanies.com)
51 points by sleepingbot on Nov 4, 2009 | 35 comments
22. Tarsnap - Why is 1 GB 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30? (tarsnap.com)
48 points by billpg on Nov 4, 2009 | 25 comments
23. Plumber vs. programmer: a face-off over an online directory (techflash.com)
47 points by chuck_taylor on Nov 4, 2009 | 42 comments
24. Linux: still better for coding (antirez.com)
44 points by r11t on Nov 4, 2009 | 32 comments
25. Why does Microsoft say Zoho is the Fake Office? (fakeoffice.org)
41 points by ashishk on Nov 4, 2009 | 22 comments
26. The 7 Survival Habits of Byzantium (foreignpolicy.com)
39 points by robg on Nov 4, 2009 | 24 comments
27. Musician makes 26.3% of his net income from just 40 hard- core fans (musicthinktank.com)
38 points by dan_sim on Nov 4, 2009 | 12 comments
28. Str0ke isn't dead yet. He's just being trolled. (twitter.com/str0ke)
37 points by ax0n on Nov 4, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Ask HN: So I quit my job to focus on my startup...
35 points by xefyr on Nov 4, 2009 | 49 comments
30. Webkit Web Inspector Updates (webkit.org)
35 points by blasdel on Nov 4, 2009 | 6 comments

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