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1. BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple (simple.com)
387 points by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Nov 8, 2011 | 277 comments
2. Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers (nytimes.com)
325 points by saturdaysaint on Nov 8, 2011 | 235 comments
3. The Knife Maker (thisismadebyhand.com)
315 points by rglover on Nov 8, 2011 | 192 comments
4. Take a short break in a quiet place (amitaytweeto.com)
286 points by supercopter on Nov 8, 2011 | 77 comments
5. Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3 (nimbus.io)
271 points by gglanzani on Nov 8, 2011 | 94 comments
6. Why Is The Defense Department Snooping On My Phone? (markturner.net)
267 points by mindcrime on Nov 8, 2011 | 34 comments
7. A web video company that is most likely a hoax (ihatelawyers3.github.com)
261 points by pavel_lishin on Nov 8, 2011 | 91 comments
8. Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes (openmymind.net)
252 points by latch on Nov 8, 2011 | 37 comments
9. Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV (wired.com)
251 points by d0ne on Nov 8, 2011 | 213 comments
10. Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams (readwriteweb.com)
227 points by jzb on Nov 8, 2011 | 101 comments
11. Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C (os-blog.com)
224 points by octopus on Nov 8, 2011 | 50 comments
12. Free 5 Billion Page Web Index Now Available from Common Crawl Foundation (readwriteweb.com)
201 points by pooyak on Nov 8, 2011 | 39 comments
13. Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program (cnet.com)
191 points by cubix on Nov 8, 2011 | 113 comments
14. Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk (wekeroad.com)
178 points by ghurlman on Nov 8, 2011 | 146 comments
15. Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave Away (paidcontent.org)
162 points by rpledge on Nov 8, 2011 | 95 comments
16. How to Make Wealth (paulgraham.com)
155 points by mofeeta on Nov 8, 2011 | 70 comments
17. Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize (discovermagazine.com)
146 points by jamesbritt on Nov 8, 2011 | 37 comments
18. Python 3 implementation in Haskell (haskell.org)
143 points by marshallp on Nov 8, 2011 | 22 comments
19. Firefox 8.0 is Released (mozilla.org)
141 points by evanw on Nov 8, 2011 | 74 comments
20. Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs (trevorowens.tumblr.com)
137 points by trevor99 on Nov 8, 2011 | 91 comments
21. Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100 replies (yahoo.com)
133 points by sidwyn on Nov 8, 2011 | 80 comments
22. /dev/audio (somethingemporium.com)
132 points by Ideka on Nov 8, 2011 | 38 comments
23. Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad (venturebeat.com)
118 points by pkrein on Nov 8, 2011 | 19 comments
24. Fedora 16 Released (fedoraproject.org)
113 points by Garbage on Nov 8, 2011 | 63 comments
25. Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux (azulsystems.com)
110 points by moonboots on Nov 8, 2011 | 28 comments
26. Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted (gigaom.com)
107 points by llambda on Nov 8, 2011 | 79 comments
27. Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December (zombie-storage.com)
104 points by Tsagadai on Nov 8, 2011 | 60 comments
28. Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours (wired.com)
93 points by FrojoS on Nov 8, 2011 | 16 comments
29. Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5) (html5rocks.com)
93 points by thibaut_barrere on Nov 8, 2011 | 25 comments
30. Dandelion Labs (dandelionlabs.com)
95 points by grandalf on Nov 8, 2011 | 64 comments

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