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1. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs (nytimes.com)
1736 points by NaOH on Oct 30, 2011 | 121 comments
2. Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (dadgum.com)
367 points by johndcook on Oct 30, 2011 | 114 comments
3. Awesome web development productivity tools (smashingmagazine.com)
236 points by doc_larry on Oct 30, 2011 | 21 comments
4. Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston (techcrunch.com)
225 points by llambda on Oct 30, 2011 | 90 comments
5. The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency (martinfowler.com)
210 points by koevet on Oct 30, 2011 | 53 comments
6. You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends (bufr.tumblr.com)
198 points by buf on Oct 30, 2011 | 92 comments
7. Klout Is Odious (somebits.com)
192 points by wyclif on Oct 30, 2011 | 84 comments
8. Easter Island heads have bodies (seeker401.wordpress.com)
186 points by timf on Oct 30, 2011 | 88 comments
9. Ruby 1.9.3 released (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
183 points by xal on Oct 30, 2011 | 43 comments
10. All Maps in China are Transformed (wangjianshuo.com)
175 points by jann on Oct 30, 2011 | 115 comments
11. I Make Dreams Come True (github.com/raganwald)
169 points by llambda on Oct 30, 2011 | 37 comments
12. Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets (chron.com)
171 points by kaybe on Oct 30, 2011 | 40 comments
13. Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants (nytimes.com)
164 points by donohoe on Oct 30, 2011 | 58 comments
14. Experts often end up where they started as beginners (johndcook.com)
159 points by aycangulez on Oct 30, 2011 | 44 comments
15. In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks (oreilly.com)
102 points by j_baker on Oct 30, 2011 | 39 comments
16. For HN: Open access to scientific papers, a summary of the state of play
102 points by michael_nielsen on Oct 30, 2011 | 29 comments
17. Arduino Controlled Dishwasher (neonsquirt.com)
100 points by signa11 on Oct 30, 2011 | 18 comments
18. Raspberry Pi: An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte (raspberrypi.org)
99 points by ecounysis on Oct 30, 2011 | 38 comments
19. Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming (carcaddar.blogspot.com)
98 points by sedachv on Oct 30, 2011 | 57 comments
20. What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference (petdance.com)
97 points by progga on Oct 30, 2011 | 13 comments
21. 'You Are Not So Smart': Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad (theatlantic.com)
95 points by Confusion on Oct 30, 2011 | 68 comments
22. Computing Your Skill (moserware.com)
92 points by Nic0 on Oct 30, 2011 | 9 comments
23. Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work (nytimes.com)
86 points by trapexit on Oct 30, 2011 | 84 comments
24. Isaacson: The Genius of Jobs (nytimes.com)
82 points by robg on Oct 30, 2011 | 58 comments
25. A CRAP way to improve usability (userfocus.co.uk)
76 points by yusukeito on Oct 30, 2011 | 10 comments
26. New extension to Haskell -- data types and polymorphism at the type level (microsoft.com)
73 points by dons on Oct 30, 2011 | 13 comments
27. Eloquent JavaScript on GitHub (github.com/marijnh)
72 points by bergie on Oct 30, 2011 | 5 comments
28. Show HN: my one-day project, Trnsfr (trns.fr)
64 points by sahillavingia on Oct 30, 2011 | 42 comments
29. Shuttleworth: Ubuntu is heading to phones and tablets (arstechnica.com)
62 points by evo_9 on Oct 30, 2011 | 15 comments
30. Ask HN: How Can We Help Make HN a Better Online Community?
60 points by tokenadult on Oct 30, 2011 | 70 comments

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