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1. For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser (arstechnica.com)
275 points by evo_9 on Nov 24, 2011 | 105 comments
2. "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996) (amasci.com)
271 points by alvivar on Nov 24, 2011 | 46 comments
3. Why do humans procrastinate? (reddit.com)
264 points by ankeshk on Nov 24, 2011 | 84 comments
4. What's In A GIF (matthewflickinger.com)
250 points by ch0wn on Nov 24, 2011 | 35 comments
5. In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
231 points by Wohlf on Nov 24, 2011 | 76 comments
6. EU Court of Justice: Censorship in Name of Copyright Violates Fundamental Rights (laquadrature.net)
216 points by yogsototh on Nov 24, 2011 | 49 comments
7. The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving (wsj.com)
162 points by brownie on Nov 24, 2011 | 105 comments
8. ECMAScript 6 looks promising (kishorelive.com)
153 points by karterk on Nov 24, 2011 | 88 comments
9. I feel like I’m living the first line of my obituary. (wikimediafoundation.org)
130 points by k3dz on Nov 24, 2011 | 69 comments
10. How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex (wired.co.uk)
131 points by fufulabs on Nov 24, 2011 | 63 comments
11. AT&T withdraws T-Mobile takeover application from FCC (theverge.com)
122 points by barredo on Nov 24, 2011 | 34 comments
12. Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine (gameinformer.com)
119 points by timknauf on Nov 24, 2011 | 89 comments
13. Fun With Numbers (daringfireball.net)
112 points by danilocampos on Nov 24, 2011 | 32 comments
14. Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make it scale up (slashdot.org)
110 points by patrickaljord on Nov 24, 2011 | 36 comments
15. Senator Joe Lieberman asks Google for a terrorist flagging button on Blogger (theverge.com)
88 points by nextparadigms on Nov 24, 2011 | 69 comments
16. New Stanford course - Anatomy (anatomy-class.org)
80 points by buddhika on Nov 24, 2011 | 41 comments
17. Education pays ... (bls.gov)
76 points by robg on Nov 24, 2011 | 50 comments
18. Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers (lifebeyondfife.com)
75 points by lifebeyondfife on Nov 24, 2011 | 34 comments
19. Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher (eff.org)
74 points by wglb on Nov 24, 2011 | 13 comments
20. CAAT a JavaScript animation toolkit (hyperandroid.com)
74 points by antichaos on Nov 24, 2011 | 10 comments
21. Lynn Margulis, 1938–2011 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
71 points by robinhouston on Nov 24, 2011 | 13 comments
22. Find A Small Problem And Build A Simple Solution. (jcamarena.com)
68 points by j_camarena on Nov 24, 2011 | 22 comments
23. Django-app-engine development halted (allbuttonspressed.com)
67 points by kennu on Nov 24, 2011 | 31 comments
24. App vs. Business (64notes.com)
67 points by kingsidharth on Nov 24, 2011 | 9 comments
25. YouTube receives HTML5 1080p playback, testing new Flash features (theverge.com)
58 points by gaoprea on Nov 24, 2011 | 17 comments
26. Nature Special: The Autism Enigma (nature.com)
55 points by tokenadult on Nov 24, 2011 | 9 comments
27. Reasons to Use HTML5 (tympanus.net)
56 points by dzejkej on Nov 24, 2011 | 20 comments
28. Belgacom ISP Can’t Be Told to Block File Sharing, EU Court Says (businessweek.com)
50 points by joeyespo on Nov 24, 2011 | 2 comments
29. Fast data processing engine written in C (github.com/x86-64)
49 points by x86_64 on Nov 24, 2011 | 24 comments
30. The coolest thing I ever made (pythonpackages.com)
48 points by aclark on Nov 24, 2011 | 13 comments

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