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1. printf("goodbye, Dennis"); (economist.com)
497 points by wahooligan on Oct 21, 2011 | 105 comments
2. Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. (worrydream.com)
440 points by jsavimbi on Oct 21, 2011 | 62 comments
3. Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple (appleinsider.com)
353 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 21, 2011 | 155 comments
4. Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer (arstechnica.com)
262 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 21, 2011 | 70 comments
5. The + operator has been replaced. (google.com)
261 points by hammock on Oct 21, 2011 | 165 comments
6. The Dropbox API (dropbox.com)
237 points by Uncle_Sam on Oct 21, 2011 | 45 comments
7. Who You Are (nytimes.com)
187 points by four on Oct 21, 2011 | 34 comments
8. The Greatest Hacks of My Life (wesleytansey.com)
183 points by tansey on Oct 21, 2011 | 43 comments
9. Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results
180 points by abi on Oct 21, 2011 | 71 comments
10. Walking man animation using only CSS3 (andrew-hoyer.com)
175 points by clu3 on Oct 21, 2011 | 32 comments
11. GitHub Secrets (github.com/blog)
172 points by vijaydev on Oct 21, 2011 | 13 comments
12. SICP in Python (eecs.berkeley.edu)
149 points by ahmicro on Oct 21, 2011 | 49 comments
13. If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out. (garry.posterous.com)
151 points by franze on Oct 21, 2011 | 59 comments
14. How the R-project is taking over statistical analysis software (sites.google.com)
138 points by jsavimbi on Oct 21, 2011 | 60 comments
15. Steve Jobs to Obama: “You’re headed for a one-term presidency” (9to5mac.com)
137 points by mtgred on Oct 21, 2011 | 121 comments
16. The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play (thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com)
132 points by llambda on Oct 21, 2011 | 49 comments
17. Design mistakes in mixed C/C++ and Lua projects (gmane.org)
127 points by robinhouston on Oct 21, 2011 | 28 comments
18. Duckhunt using HTML5 and Javascript (mattsurabian.com)
124 points by aqrashik on Oct 21, 2011 | 22 comments
19. Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2 (9to5mac.com)
102 points by kenjackson on Oct 21, 2011 | 44 comments
20. Python library for symbolic mathematics (code.google.com)
90 points by gmodena on Oct 21, 2011 | 10 comments
21. After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong (zdnet.com)
88 points by danilocampos on Oct 21, 2011 | 109 comments
22. BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed (torrentfreak.com)
87 points by nextparadigms on Oct 21, 2011 | 35 comments
23. Monte Carlo profiling (stackoverflow.com)
86 points by mapleoin on Oct 21, 2011 | 19 comments
24. Image manipulation library for PHP 5.3 (readthedocs.org)
83 points by avalanche123 on Oct 21, 2011 | 28 comments
25. OCZ's Octane SSD - 1TB in a Consumer Drive (anandtech.com)
75 points by peterb on Oct 21, 2011 | 14 comments
26. Contribute to the Qt Project (qt-project.org)
72 points by drgvond on Oct 21, 2011 | 14 comments
27. Apple Store App knows when you walk into an Apple Store (thenextweb.com)
72 points by FrancescoRizzi on Oct 21, 2011 | 33 comments
28. So you want to write JavaScript for a living? (nczonline.net)
72 points by taylorbuley on Oct 21, 2011 | 32 comments
29. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle (arstechnica.com)
70 points by divy on Oct 21, 2011 | 30 comments
30. Cardpool (YC W10) acquired by BlackHawk Network (cardpool.com)
69 points by Timothee on Oct 21, 2011 | 13 comments

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