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1. ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W (squishtech.posterous.com)
226 points by sprsquish on Nov 9, 2010 | 106 comments
2. World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
220 points by mcantelon on Nov 9, 2010 | 109 comments
3. We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace. (mixpanel.com)
203 points by suhail on Nov 9, 2010 | 174 comments
4. Wherein I help you get a good job (aaronboodman.com)
185 points by malbiniak on Nov 9, 2010 | 94 comments
5. Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
169 points by davecardwell on Nov 9, 2010 | 31 comments
6. Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds (singularityhub.com)
169 points by kkleiner on Nov 9, 2010 | 70 comments
7. Turns out, it is a river in Egypt (discovermagazine.com)
167 points by chanux on Nov 9, 2010 | 42 comments
8. When we have money we'll do X (antoniocangiano.com)
161 points by acangiano on Nov 9, 2010 | 29 comments
9. Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage (daringfireball.net)
146 points by motvbi on Nov 9, 2010 | 173 comments
10. 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number (ma.tt)
142 points by powdahound on Nov 9, 2010 | 27 comments
11. 1140px grid system. Time to scrap 960px? (cssgrid.net)
131 points by ramxpa on Nov 9, 2010 | 65 comments
12. Backbone.js adds Controllers and History (documentcloud.github.com)
125 points by raganwald on Nov 9, 2010 | 25 comments
13. What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Brain and Body (lifehacker.com)
123 points by ArturSoler on Nov 9, 2010 | 48 comments
14. Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C (liu.se)
122 points by ssp on Nov 9, 2010 | 111 comments
15. Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data (techcrunch.com)
116 points by stevederico on Nov 9, 2010 | 81 comments
16. Mystery Missile Launch Seen off California Coast (cbsnews.com)
109 points by ph0rque on Nov 9, 2010 | 85 comments
17. Your Bank Balance is at Zero (ideasonideas.com)
106 points by karjaluoto on Nov 9, 2010 | 76 comments
18. HTML5 boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com)
97 points by epo on Nov 9, 2010 | 14 comments
19. Show HN: Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this? (sourceforge.net)
97 points by nickpinkston on Nov 9, 2010 | 47 comments
20. Leading scientists say backscatter X-ray may be far more dangerous than thought (npr.org)
91 points by zacharyvoase on Nov 9, 2010 | 50 comments
21. ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate (asp.net)
71 points by bsk on Nov 9, 2010 | 44 comments
22. What do YC Founders think about working at Big Companies? (rahfeedback.posterous.com)
72 points by dayjah on Nov 9, 2010 | 40 comments
23. Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient” (techcrunch.com)
72 points by michaelhart on Nov 9, 2010 | 63 comments
24. 17% leave their job due to insufficient recognition (rypple.com)
69 points by jsatok on Nov 9, 2010 | 66 comments
25. Why 'Be Passionate' Is Awful Advice (inc.com)
68 points by frankdenbow on Nov 9, 2010 | 34 comments
26. Lisp has too many parentheses... (symbo1ics.com)
66 points by zephyrfalcon on Nov 9, 2010 | 77 comments
27. Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API (techcrunch.com)
63 points by gspyrou on Nov 9, 2010 | 35 comments
28. By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript (might.net)
62 points by budu on Nov 9, 2010 | 19 comments
29. Ask.com to refocus away from search, towards Q&A (thenextweb.com)
60 points by Stevenup7002 on Nov 9, 2010 | 30 comments
30. Why I have migrated from Ruby on Rails to Seaside (codingforhire.com)
57 points by duck on Nov 9, 2010 | 28 comments

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