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1. Serving at the Pleasure of the King (codinghorror.com)
375 points by tmcdonald on Oct 15, 2011 | 124 comments
2. Amazon kindle source code (amazon.com)
324 points by sundar22in on Oct 15, 2011 | 40 comments
3. Who killed videogames? (insertcredit.com)
281 points by cavalcade on Oct 15, 2011 | 119 comments
4. Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes (techdirt.com)
239 points by d0ne on Oct 15, 2011 | 64 comments
5. GitLab - an open source clone of GitHub (gitlabhq.com)
228 points by basil on Oct 15, 2011 | 63 comments
6. Why Can't We Drink Sea Water? (globetrooper.com)
217 points by todsul on Oct 15, 2011 | 83 comments
7. Google Labs no more (labs.google.com)
200 points by suyash on Oct 15, 2011 | 76 comments
8. A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy (jeffwofford.com)
192 points by codebungl on Oct 15, 2011 | 35 comments
9. Dear John Carmack. (quelsolaar.com)
189 points by swah on Oct 15, 2011 | 95 comments
10. Tired of Being Tired (zenhabits.net)
186 points by Sato on Oct 15, 2011 | 100 comments
11. Poor Man's Scalability (codypowell.com)
174 points by greenshirt on Oct 15, 2011 | 61 comments
12. Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour (diveintoios.com)
163 points by sidwyn on Oct 15, 2011 | 91 comments
13. Learn How to make Angry Birds (wildbunny.co.uk)
160 points by neinsun on Oct 15, 2011 | 24 comments
14. Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid' (cnet.com)
148 points by Sato on Oct 15, 2011 | 67 comments
15. Html5 Neonflames (29a.ch)
115 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 15, 2011 | 26 comments
16. Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root (betterexplained.com)
107 points by pjin on Oct 15, 2011 | 24 comments
17. Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful (gplusglobe.com)
83 points by rkalla on Oct 15, 2011 | 23 comments
18. "That's what sold me. One slide." (avc.com)
83 points by cwan on Oct 15, 2011 | 50 comments
19. How to use epoll? A complete example in C (banu.com)
82 points by slig on Oct 15, 2011 | 30 comments
20. From C to C++: A quick reference for aging programmers (triptico.com)
82 points by angelortega on Oct 15, 2011 | 38 comments
21. Renee, the friendly rack-based framework (reneerb.com)
80 points by joshbuddy on Oct 15, 2011 | 37 comments
22. Why isn't all Internet traffic encrypted? (superuser.com)
77 points by chrisaycock on Oct 15, 2011 | 52 comments
23. What non-Google employees don't understand about Steve Yegge's post (steveobd.blogspot.com)
71 points by nextparadigms on Oct 15, 2011 | 11 comments
24. Siri in practice (kieranhealy.org)
70 points by Liu on Oct 15, 2011 | 46 comments
25. Slipping out of the Honeymoon Phase. Waking up Scared. (retickr.com)
74 points by ttruett on Oct 15, 2011 | 47 comments
26. R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 (salon.com)
67 points by RyanMcGreal on Oct 15, 2011 | 31 comments
27. Secret No More: Spy Satellite Designer Reveals Life's Work (space.com)
68 points by bdr on Oct 15, 2011 | 11 comments
28. Cracked Siri has been successfully ported to an iPhone 4 (venturebeat.com)
56 points by diegogomes on Oct 15, 2011 | 29 comments
29. DNA sequenced of woman who lived to 115 (bbc.co.uk)
47 points by sheff on Oct 15, 2011 | 19 comments
30. Why Sex? To Keep Parasites at Bay, of Course (wsj.com)
45 points by jkuria on Oct 15, 2011 | 21 comments

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