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1. Spark (github.com/holman)
568 points by lrvick on Nov 15, 2011 | 95 comments
2. How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code (nathanbarry.com)
498 points by nathanbarry on Nov 15, 2011 | 137 comments
3. US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America (theagilepanda.com)
429 points by stupandaus on Nov 15, 2011 | 73 comments
4. This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years (sfgate.com)
427 points by olegious on Nov 15, 2011 | 257 comments
5. Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't (danshapiro.com)
390 points by randfish on Nov 15, 2011 | 98 comments
6. Modern Web Applications are Here (pocoo.org)
262 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 15, 2011 | 108 comments
7. Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
263 points by Matt_Cutts on Nov 15, 2011 | 162 comments
8. Fail Upwards (cstthegate.com)
191 points by bennesvig on Nov 15, 2011 | 18 comments
9. "Build something people want" is not enough (avichal.wordpress.com)
195 points by avichal on Nov 15, 2011 | 57 comments
10. Stanford releases latest iOS 5 programming class (itunes.apple.com)
183 points by MaxGabriel on Nov 15, 2011 | 8 comments
11. Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript (feval.info)
184 points by triptych on Nov 15, 2011 | 27 comments
12. Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded” (techcrunch.com)
171 points by llambda on Nov 15, 2011 | 128 comments
13. The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth (extendny.com)
165 points by kikibobo69 on Nov 15, 2011 | 50 comments
14. How Google makes Google(+) fast (plus.google.com)
157 points by jvandenbroeck on Nov 15, 2011 | 32 comments
15. The plumber programmer (johndcook.com)
125 points by ColinWright on Nov 15, 2011 | 42 comments
16. What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem (boingboing.net)
110 points by danshapiro on Nov 15, 2011 | 98 comments
17. High IQ linked to drug use (cnn.com)
111 points by orky56 on Nov 15, 2011 | 84 comments
18. Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC (geek.com)
109 points by ukdm on Nov 15, 2011 | 82 comments
19. Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required" (usajobs.gov)
105 points by anonymoustrolol on Nov 15, 2011 | 50 comments
20. NodeQuery is a realtime server-side DOM API (github.com/tblobaum)
104 points by funthree on Nov 15, 2011 | 24 comments
21. My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework (mulqueeny.wordpress.com)
104 points by robinhouston on Nov 15, 2011 | 112 comments
22. Facebook Tells Salman Rushdie He Has to Go By His Given Name, Ahmed Rushdie (theatlantic.com)
103 points by jamesbritt on Nov 15, 2011 | 40 comments
23. House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Industry Concerns About SOPA (techdirt.com)
99 points by d0ne on Nov 15, 2011 | 35 comments
24. WeekendHacker (weekendhacker.net)
98 points by heelhook on Nov 15, 2011 | 25 comments
25. Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation (infoq.com)
80 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 15, 2011 | 40 comments
26. Steve Jobs biography -- Isaacson blew it (daringfireball.net)
73 points by pmattos on Nov 15, 2011 | 103 comments
27. Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (nytimes.com)
73 points by gopi on Nov 15, 2011 | 85 comments
28. 2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S. (fastcompany.com)
72 points by kul on Nov 15, 2011 | 32 comments
29. Finding a Technical Cofounder (alexeymk.com)
71 points by jorde on Nov 15, 2011 | 53 comments
30. Pulse will come pre-installed on the Kindle Fire (pulse.me)
66 points by ebabchick on Nov 15, 2011 | 14 comments

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