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1. We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria (reuters.com)
622 points by sethbannon on Oct 19, 2011 | 138 comments
2. Signs that you are a bad programmer (yacoset.com)
450 points by okal on Oct 19, 2011 | 168 comments
3. Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years (fogus.me)
284 points by jashkenas on Oct 19, 2011 | 53 comments
4. Google AI Challenge 2011 (aichallenge.org)
275 points by philf on Oct 19, 2011 | 68 comments
5. Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking (michaelgeist.ca)
215 points by mef on Oct 19, 2011 | 38 comments
6. Lytro cameras are ready for preorder. (lytro.com)
207 points by sahillavingia on Oct 19, 2011 | 94 comments
7. Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For (giftrocket.com)
207 points by kapilkale on Oct 19, 2011 | 123 comments
8. Android 4.0 SDK Now Available (android.com)
182 points by Toddward on Oct 19, 2011 | 78 comments
9. How does the iPhone 4S camera stack up against other cameras? (campl.us)
171 points by brackin on Oct 19, 2011 | 64 comments
10. Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps (troyhunt.com)
168 points by troyhunt on Oct 19, 2011 | 57 comments
11. Unofficial Google Advanced Search (jwebnet.net)
161 points by 0x12 on Oct 19, 2011 | 15 comments
12. Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World (apple.com)
153 points by adeelarshad82 on Oct 19, 2011 | 23 comments
13. Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar (rememberthemilk.com)
150 points by hopeless on Oct 19, 2011 | 56 comments
14. Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search (google.com)
144 points by suivix on Oct 19, 2011 | 89 comments
15. Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal" (getsmokesignal.com)
143 points by mtgentry on Oct 19, 2011 | 80 comments
16. How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin (bueno.org)
137 points by aristus on Oct 19, 2011 | 47 comments
17. We Can All Become Job Creators (nytimes.com)
136 points by kennyma on Oct 19, 2011 | 93 comments
18. Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Ice Cream Sandwich (thisismynext.com)
130 points by turing on Oct 19, 2011 | 48 comments
19. IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS (apple.com)
129 points by dchest on Oct 19, 2011 | 89 comments
20. Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole? (globalpost.com)
123 points by haasted on Oct 19, 2011 | 86 comments
21. Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception (forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin)
118 points by jkuria on Oct 19, 2011 | 62 comments
22. Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars (eff.org)
111 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2011 | 29 comments
23. From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms (springwise.com)
108 points by bond on Oct 19, 2011 | 35 comments
24. Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million (techcrunch.com)
96 points by ssclafani on Oct 19, 2011 | 45 comments
25. Go Ahead, Sell My Data (kevinjcurtin.com)
91 points by granfalloon on Oct 19, 2011 | 109 comments
26. Stanford on-line Data Mining Courses ($10k for a certificate) (stanford.edu)
90 points by zeratul on Oct 19, 2011 | 36 comments
27. Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus (cnet.com)
86 points by AhtiK on Oct 19, 2011 | 130 comments
28. Andrew Ng's Classroom Lectures for ML (171.64.93.201)
82 points by dlo on Oct 19, 2011 | 13 comments
29. How to create a (fictional) language in one day (sicher.org)
81 points by sicher on Oct 19, 2011 | 19 comments
30. Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days (plus.google.com)
79 points by patrickaljord on Oct 19, 2011 | 36 comments

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