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1. Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars (wired.com)
497 points by sravfeyn on Nov 2, 2012 | 148 comments
2. Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game (itunes.apple.com)
386 points by Omicron3141 on Nov 2, 2012 | 175 comments
3. Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech (nerdess.net)
369 points by nerdess on Nov 2, 2012 | 248 comments
4. Not one Microsoft product on Kaspersky’s top 10 vulnerabilities list (thenextweb.com)
326 points by tarekayna on Nov 2, 2012 | 135 comments
5. A Slower Speed of Light (gamelab.mit.edu)
284 points by po on Nov 2, 2012 | 105 comments
6. A life less posted (elezea.com)
256 points by marban on Nov 2, 2012 | 89 comments
7. Escape from Callback Hell: Callbacks are the modern goto (elm-lang.org)
247 points by wheatBread on Nov 2, 2012 | 147 comments
8. Start Something Small (joel.is)
219 points by dohertyjf on Nov 2, 2012 | 37 comments
9. More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed (google.com)
185 points by nico-roddz on Nov 2, 2012 | 166 comments
10. Nobody’s going to steal your idea (johndcook.com)
171 points by octopus on Nov 2, 2012 | 109 comments
11. Permission to Suck (kadavy.net)
166 points by rishi on Nov 2, 2012 | 44 comments
12. No Copyrights on APIs: Help Us Make The Case (eff.org)
135 points by apievangelist on Nov 2, 2012 | 25 comments
13. Apple has lost their legal claim to the iPhone name in Mexico (phonearena.com)
125 points by mun2mun on Nov 2, 2012 | 67 comments
14. Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold (extremetech.com)
124 points by 11031a on Nov 2, 2012 | 179 comments
15. Ruby 2.0.0-preview1 is out (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
115 points by tenderlove on Nov 2, 2012 | 62 comments
16. Whatever It Takes: Visualizations in E-mail with d3.js (parsely.com)
116 points by pixelmonkey on Nov 2, 2012 | 52 comments
17. Why I love everything you hate about Java (magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
114 points by of on Nov 2, 2012 | 93 comments
18. Here's the simple rule you need to know when using a foreign ATM (transferwise.com)
113 points by syc on Nov 2, 2012 | 52 comments
19. How deep learning on GPUs wins datamining contest without feature engineering (kaggle.com)
110 points by doobwa on Nov 2, 2012 | 13 comments
20. Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless (wired.com)
108 points by srathi on Nov 2, 2012 | 137 comments
21. NoSQL databases benchmark: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak (networkworld.com)
102 points by teoruiz on Nov 2, 2012 | 39 comments
22. Aerographite: six times lighter than air, conductive, and super-strong (extremetech.com)
95 points by razzaj on Nov 2, 2012 | 35 comments
23. Hey, C Is a Functional Language Too (atomicobject.com)
94 points by haileys on Nov 2, 2012 | 74 comments
24. Wiring a Generator to Your House (wattvision.com)
95 points by savrajsingh on Nov 2, 2012 | 71 comments
25. The Architecture of Datomic (infoq.com)
89 points by chillax on Nov 2, 2012 | 19 comments
26. Learn Shen (shenlanguage.org)
88 points by dmmalam on Nov 2, 2012 | 49 comments
27. How Georgia doxed a Russian hacker (and why it matters) (arstechnica.com)
86 points by shawndumas on Nov 2, 2012 | 18 comments
28. Chrome Canary for Developers (paulirish.com)
86 points by benackles on Nov 2, 2012 | 37 comments
29. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Automated Database Failover (braintreepayments.com)
81 points by michaelfairley on Nov 2, 2012 | 5 comments
30. Hacker News new logo concept (dribbble.com)
76 points by jglovier on Nov 2, 2012 | 37 comments

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