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1. Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity (technologyreview.com)
361 points by dhimes on Oct 14, 2011 | 108 comments
2. How I live on $7,000 per year (earlyretirementextreme.com)
341 points by jfoucher on Oct 14, 2011 | 214 comments
3. Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search (googleblog.blogspot.com)
318 points by thisisblurry on Oct 14, 2011 | 144 comments
4. It takes three years to build a business (jacquesmattheij.com)
291 points by swombat on Oct 14, 2011 | 72 comments
5. TopCoder: Algorithm Tutorials (topcoder.com)
258 points by sayemm on Oct 14, 2011 | 26 comments
6. Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On (wired.com)
225 points by duck on Oct 14, 2011 | 43 comments
7. Throwable 360 degree Panoramic Ball Camera (jonaspfeil.de)
204 points by kachhalimbu on Oct 14, 2011 | 49 comments
8. BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public (biocurious.posterous.com)
196 points by minouye on Oct 14, 2011 | 57 comments
9. Metroid Source Code Expanded (romhacking.net)
182 points by rograndom on Oct 14, 2011 | 59 comments
10. How to Draw a Circle (banu.com)
180 points by hendi_ on Oct 14, 2011 | 50 comments
11. How Siri Works (jeffwofford.com)
152 points by J3L2404 on Oct 14, 2011 | 72 comments
12. Rob Pike on the legacy of Dennis Ritchie, C & Unix (plus.google.com)
148 points by cenuij on Oct 14, 2011
13. Show HN: Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi (timekiwi.com)
145 points by mihar on Oct 14, 2011 | 48 comments
14. What is your favourite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com)
137 points by asto on Oct 14, 2011 | 144 comments
15. The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants (theatlantic.com)
133 points by mshafrir on Oct 14, 2011 | 44 comments
16. How to Make Easy & Flexible Star Ratings (airbnb.com)
129 points by Airbnb-Nerds on Oct 14, 2011 | 34 comments
17. Andreessen Horowitz Joins The Start Fund To Seed YC Companies (techcrunch.com)
123 points by joetyson on Oct 14, 2011 | 49 comments
18. The tribesman who Facebook friended me (salon.com)
119 points by wallflower on Oct 14, 2011 | 11 comments
19. Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages (postmarkapp.com)
104 points by alexknowshtml on Oct 14, 2011 | 39 comments
20. Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development (backbonetutorials.com)
107 points by thomasdavis on Oct 14, 2011 | 9 comments
21. Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70 (nytimes.com)
103 points by nydev on Oct 14, 2011 | 8 comments
22. Git 1.7.7 changes affecting the everyday developer (johnkary.net)
103 points by johnkary on Oct 14, 2011 | 45 comments
23. Money.js is a tiny (1kb) JavaScript currency conversion library for web & nodeJS (josscrowcroft.github.com)
96 points by josscrowcroft on Oct 14, 2011 | 34 comments
24. Weird World War II Security Puzzle (jgc.org)
93 points by jgrahamc on Oct 14, 2011 | 45 comments
25. Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor (nytimes.com)
91 points by jmonegro on Oct 14, 2011 | 24 comments
26. Why I’m scared of the post-PC era. (sahillavingia.com)
90 points by hunterowens on Oct 14, 2011 | 111 comments
27. An open letter to Peter Thiel (washingtonpost.com)
81 points by jaybol on Oct 14, 2011 | 84 comments
28. Columbus blamed for Little Ice Age (sciencenews.org)
77 points by pwg on Oct 14, 2011 | 42 comments
29. Video: Hacker creates Super Mario game in a cardboard box (wired.co.uk)
76 points by progga on Oct 14, 2011 | 7 comments
30. Science Code Manifesto (sciencecodemanifesto.org)
77 points by michael_nielsen on Oct 14, 2011 | 20 comments

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