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1. Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit" (jwz.org)
438 points by Uhhrrr on Oct 20, 2011 | 168 comments
2. List.js (listjs.com)
441 points by bloodberet on Oct 20, 2011 | 83 comments
3. New HTTP Codes (ietf.org)
360 points by alcuadrado on Oct 20, 2011 | 80 comments
4. Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video] (infoq.com)
356 points by puredanger on Oct 20, 2011 | 99 comments
5. Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend. (finishweekend.com)
315 points by bryckbost on Oct 20, 2011 | 69 comments
6. 2D Game Art for Programmers (gamasutra.com)
282 points by Impossible on Oct 20, 2011 | 38 comments
7. What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report (npr.org)
237 points by joelhaus on Oct 20, 2011 | 220 comments
8. The coffeeshop fallacy (thestartuptoolkit.com)
233 points by robfitz on Oct 20, 2011 | 96 comments
9. TechStars, Lies & Videotape (melanie.io)
234 points by PStamatiou on Oct 20, 2011 | 100 comments
10. DuckDuckGo included in Opera (duck.co)
189 points by exterm on Oct 20, 2011 | 44 comments
11. Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations (github.com/daneden)
166 points by tilt on Oct 20, 2011 | 28 comments
12. 65k Open TCP Ports (zorinaq.com)
164 points by mrb on Oct 20, 2011 | 27 comments
13. Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet (ddeville.com)
165 points by zackbelow on Oct 20, 2011 | 54 comments
14. Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages" (cnet.com)
161 points by dporan on Oct 20, 2011 | 146 comments
15. The Styrofoam Cube In This Letter Serves A Bureaucratic Purpose (consumerist.com)
158 points by ubasu on Oct 20, 2011 | 44 comments
16. Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas (tenthcave.com)
151 points by deadmansshoes on Oct 20, 2011 | 174 comments
17. CNN, NYTimes, Mashable all vulnerable to XSS (davidlynch.org)
154 points by kemayo on Oct 20, 2011 | 68 comments
18. An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez (github.com/antirez)
145 points by smn on Oct 20, 2011 | 57 comments
19. Google Reader cutting internal social features, integrating into Google+ (googlereader.blogspot.com)
140 points by heydenberk on Oct 20, 2011 | 101 comments
20. Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery (cbsnews.com)
126 points by MichaelApproved on Oct 20, 2011 | 108 comments
21. I Hate My Smartphone (rs.io)
120 points by adbge on Oct 20, 2011 | 121 comments
22. Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions (zurb.com)
118 points by audionerd on Oct 20, 2011 | 22 comments
23. Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose (msn.com)
107 points by pitdesi on Oct 20, 2011 | 119 comments
24. Kurzweil's rebuttal to Paul Allen (technologyreview.com)
102 points by ca98am79 on Oct 20, 2011 | 121 comments
25. Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 (amazon.com)
96 points by mikecane on Oct 20, 2011 | 34 comments
26. Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say (nytimes.com)
95 points by frankiewarren on Oct 20, 2011 | 88 comments
27. Real world Clojure (puredanger.com)
97 points by puredanger on Oct 20, 2011 | 34 comments
28. Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source (thinq.co.uk)
93 points by twapi on Oct 20, 2011 | 79 comments
29. Steve Jobs Worked on Apple Until His Last Day (pcmag.com)
90 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 20, 2011 | 56 comments
30. The case for piracy (abc.net.au)
88 points by cubicle67 on Oct 20, 2011 | 60 comments

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