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1. Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation? (airspacemag.com)
295 points by bfe on Nov 21, 2011 | 88 comments
2. Progress against SOPA (mattcutts.com)
279 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 21, 2011 | 61 comments
3. Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. (dashes.com)
276 points by slig on Nov 21, 2011 | 89 comments
4. How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct (shkrobius.livejournal.com)
269 points by mike_esspe on Nov 21, 2011 | 96 comments
5. Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
203 points by fezzl on Nov 21, 2011 | 100 comments
6. How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story (econlib.org)
191 points by barry-cotter on Nov 21, 2011 | 105 comments
7. GCC 4.7 adds transactional memory extensions for C/C++ (gcc.gnu.org)
178 points by randombit on Nov 21, 2011 | 32 comments
8. PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot (morepypy.blogspot.com)
160 points by kingkilr on Nov 21, 2011 | 18 comments
9. EBay acquires Hunch for $80m (uncrunched.com)
158 points by speedracr on Nov 21, 2011 | 93 comments
10. foo@bar.com is a real email address (bar.com)
153 points by acangiano on Nov 21, 2011 | 91 comments
11. The True Intent of SOPA (theagilepanda.com)
143 points by stupandaus on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
12. A crash course in UX (richoakley.com)
137 points by richoakley on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
13. Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them (sealedabstract.com)
136 points by drewcrawford on Nov 21, 2011 | 23 comments
14. Peter Thiel: "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough" (techcrunch.com)
116 points by llambda on Nov 21, 2011 | 166 comments
15. Beware the Alan Turing fetish (jgc.org)
115 points by jgrahamc on Nov 21, 2011 | 41 comments
16. Free Online Courses from Top Universities (openculture.com)
112 points by jnand on Nov 21, 2011 | 12 comments
17. What I Learned Building the Apple Store (hbr.org)
106 points by tilt on Nov 21, 2011 | 56 comments
18. Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster (stopcensorship.org)
101 points by trusche on Nov 21, 2011 | 57 comments
19. Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password (threatpost.com)
98 points by 01PH on Nov 21, 2011 | 44 comments
20. China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
97 points by bdr on Nov 21, 2011 | 45 comments
21. Burning a NeXT Magnesium Cube (simson.net)
96 points by aaronjg on Nov 21, 2011 | 20 comments
22. Randy Pausch Day (cmu.edu)
94 points by sidwyn on Nov 21, 2011 | 9 comments
23. Iterating Towards Bethlehem (rifters.com)
86 points by bane on Nov 21, 2011 | 7 comments
24. A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News. (github.com/nicksergeant)
86 points by nicksergeant on Nov 21, 2011 | 23 comments
25. Show HN: Guided Recipe Creation (recipelabs.com)
79 points by kbrower on Nov 21, 2011 | 48 comments
26. Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert (recursivity.com)
80 points by wfaler on Nov 21, 2011 | 31 comments
27. Equity Investment Simulation: Illustrating Dilution (ownyourventure.com)
79 points by snampall on Nov 21, 2011 | 13 comments
28. Your images are a virus. They are everywhere on the Internet (hanselman.com)
75 points by joeyespo on Nov 21, 2011 | 19 comments
29. Copyright isn't working, says European Commission (zdnet.co.uk)
76 points by pwg on Nov 21, 2011 | 14 comments
30. The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5 (paulirish.com)
70 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 21, 2011 | 11 comments

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