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1. I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make (reddit.com)
601 points by amirmc on Nov 29, 2011 | 277 comments
2. US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (arstechnica.com)
434 points by gigawatt on Nov 29, 2011 | 216 comments
3. How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow? (stackoverflow.com)
380 points by sathyabhat on Nov 29, 2011 | 74 comments
4. "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm (eseanews.com)
339 points by janineyoong on Nov 29, 2011 | 101 comments
5. Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years (ftc.gov)
201 points by count_zero on Nov 29, 2011 | 131 comments
6. Yammer moving from Scala to Java (joda.org)
187 points by Jd on Nov 29, 2011 | 86 comments
7. Realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps (getspool.com)
184 points by rubyorchard on Nov 29, 2011 | 19 comments
8. Little Printer prints you a beautiful mini-newspaper. (bergcloud.com)
181 points by steren on Nov 29, 2011 | 78 comments
9. Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign (googleblog.blogspot.com)
179 points by sahaj on Nov 29, 2011 | 118 comments
10. Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373) (scottaaronson.com)
166 points by davepeck on Nov 29, 2011 | 52 comments
11. Stanford Free Class: Computer Security (security-class.org)
144 points by myffical on Nov 29, 2011 | 16 comments
12. EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language (osnews.com)
141 points by thomholwerda on Nov 29, 2011 | 14 comments
13. Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch (getinpulse.com)
139 points by erohead on Nov 29, 2011 | 63 comments
14. Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof (geek.com)
129 points by ukdm on Nov 29, 2011 | 33 comments
15. Show HN: elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis) (hastebin.com)
131 points by seejohnrun on Nov 29, 2011 | 68 comments
16. Documents Reveal TSA Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
124 points by georgecmu on Nov 29, 2011 | 43 comments
17. Avout: Distributed State in Clojure (clojure.com)
121 points by fogus on Nov 29, 2011 | 5 comments
18. The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum (wired.com)
113 points by cwan on Nov 29, 2011 | 29 comments
19. API Half-lives (gabrielweinberg.com)
106 points by bjplink on Nov 29, 2011 | 44 comments
20. Another free course: Model Thinking (modelthinker-class.org)
106 points by corey on Nov 29, 2011 | 22 comments
21. Think you understand Monty Hall? Try the Tuesday boy problem. (scienceblogs.com)
106 points by ColinWright on Nov 29, 2011 | 141 comments
22. WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds (blog.wordpress.com)
106 points by Urgo on Nov 29, 2011 | 28 comments
23. Fuzzy string search (ntz-develop.blogspot.com)
104 points by Animus7 on Nov 29, 2011 | 9 comments
24. Programming languages cannot be copyrighted, says senior EU court adviser (itworld.com)
98 points by abennett on Nov 29, 2011 | 15 comments
25. X86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered (plus.google.com)
97 points by andrewmunn on Nov 29, 2011 | 78 comments
26. Tornado twice as fast with PyPy 1.7 compared to Python 2.7 (groups.google.com)
85 points by peterbe on Nov 29, 2011 | 22 comments
27. Why Noir doesn't have controllers (groups.google.com)
83 points by Mariel on Nov 29, 2011 | 23 comments
28. Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job (theregister.co.uk)
83 points by abhishektwr on Nov 29, 2011 | 17 comments
29. SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player Now Free & Unlimited, Real-Time Stats & More (jilion.com)
81 points by aidanhornsby on Nov 29, 2011 | 18 comments
30. Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate, A Small Experiment (alexn.org)
75 points by bad_user on Nov 29, 2011 | 43 comments

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