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1. Deleting my Google+ profile (support.google.com)
470 points by buro9 on Nov 17, 2013 | 89 comments
2. Google's Decline Really Bugs Me (blackhole12.blogspot.com)
411 points by blackhole on Nov 17, 2013 | 277 comments
3. Read less HN (johnmurray.io)
399 points by johnmurray_io on Nov 17, 2013 | 132 comments
4. Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
353 points by dsl on Nov 17, 2013 | 274 comments
5. Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000 (zdnet.com)
261 points by threatmodel on Nov 17, 2013 | 158 comments
6. Two million Raspberry Pi sold (raspberrypi.org)
252 points by alexandros on Nov 17, 2013 | 115 comments
7. Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide (zachorr.com)
221 points by funkenstein on Nov 17, 2013 | 40 comments
8. Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?" (groups.google.com)
207 points by St-Clock on Nov 17, 2013 | 198 comments
9. Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
182 points by fabrizioc1 on Nov 17, 2013 | 110 comments
10. Advanced R programming (had.co.nz)
173 points by iamtechaddict on Nov 17, 2013 | 40 comments
11. Alcohol without the hangover? (theguardian.com)
169 points by Fice on Nov 17, 2013 | 97 comments
12. How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system (flurdy.com)
163 points by nsomaru on Nov 17, 2013 | 81 comments
13. Show HN: A game I've been working on for the last year is out today (itunes.apple.com)
165 points by savethejets on Nov 17, 2013 | 64 comments
14. Code robots in Python. Fight other players. Climb to the top (robotgame.org)
158 points by yasyfm on Nov 17, 2013 | 44 comments
15. How statically linked programs run on Linux (thegreenplace.net)
145 points by ptype on Nov 17, 2013 | 17 comments
16. PrimeSense bought by Apple for $345M (geektime.com)
137 points by AviSchneider on Nov 17, 2013 | 82 comments
17. Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python's __slots__ (oyster.com)
135 points by benhoyt on Nov 17, 2013 | 43 comments
18. Bitcoin $500 (cloudup.com)
132 points by _hv99 on Nov 17, 2013 | 139 comments
19. When to use assert (python.org)
124 points by martinvol on Nov 17, 2013 | 41 comments
20. Amazon bares its computers (nytimes.com)
124 points by DLay on Nov 17, 2013 | 71 comments
21. Shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org)
117 points by reinhardt on Nov 17, 2013 | 34 comments
22. Hipster CEO (itunes.apple.com)
116 points by shogunmike on Nov 17, 2013 | 38 comments
23. Julia 0.2 released (github.com/julialang)
107 points by StefanKarpinski on Nov 17, 2013 | 42 comments
24. New FCC chairman tells wireless carriers to unlock cell phones (arstechnica.com)
98 points by _pius on Nov 17, 2013 | 24 comments
25. Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard (arstechnica.com)
92 points by protomyth on Nov 17, 2013 | 102 comments
26. My Favorite Database is the Network (pocoo.org)
94 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 17, 2013 | 10 comments
27. Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (2011) (cnn.com)
88 points by rst on Nov 17, 2013 | 32 comments
28. Your Phone Number Is Going To Get A Reputation Score (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
88 points by Amadou on Nov 17, 2013 | 47 comments
29. Achieving 10Gbps Line-rate Key-value Stores with FPGAs [pdf] (rackcdn.com)
84 points by kiwidrew on Nov 17, 2013 | 17 comments
30. Eben Moglen on Privacy: The Union, May it Be Preserved (snowdenandthefuture.info)
79 points by nkurz on Nov 17, 2013 | 14 comments

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