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1.		Hacker News Needs Honeypots (nashcoding.com)
		450 points by tansey on Oct 28, 2011 \| 150 comments
2.		Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (wired.com)
		419 points by there on Oct 28, 2011 \| 119 comments
3.		Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet (glenelkins.com)
		234 points by glenbo on Oct 28, 2011 \| 73 comments
4.		Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today (wired.co.uk)
		230 points by ck2 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 138 comments
5.		Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		212 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 \| 121 comments
6.		How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas (startupbound.com)
		205 points by dberube on Oct 28, 2011 \| 75 comments
7.		On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector (samsaffron.com)
		183 points by sams99 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 72 comments
8.		40 Hour Work Weeks Suck (regehr.org)
		184 points by wglb on Oct 28, 2011 \| 62 comments
9.		Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated (geekwire.com)
		183 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 \| 124 comments
10.		Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
		177 points by mattmanser on Oct 28, 2011 \| 201 comments
11.		Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter (slideshare.net)
		146 points by koevet on Oct 28, 2011 \| 66 comments
12.		Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance (stanfordalumni.org)
		144 points by aroberge on Oct 28, 2011 \| 47 comments
13.		A JavaScript H.264 decoder (github.com/mbebenita)
		142 points by tnajdek on Oct 28, 2011 \| 41 comments
14.		The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users (canonical.com)
		132 points by rlpb on Oct 28, 2011 \| 45 comments
15.		Codecademy (YC S11) Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code (techcrunch.com)
		128 points by nickfrost on Oct 28, 2011 \| 39 comments
16.		Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller (businessweek.com)
		129 points by aab1d on Oct 28, 2011 \| 91 comments
		jgrahamc on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term? Perhaps, but more than that it's bloody stupid.
18.		Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels (daringfireball.net)
		113 points by dave1619 on Oct 28, 2011 \| 92 comments
		moultano on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police ... But Google's record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer's Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ... This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn't enough.
20.		The iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken (iclarified.com)
		106 points by zeratul on Oct 28, 2011 \| 106 comments
21.		Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013 (bloomberg.com)
		104 points by bane on Oct 28, 2011 \| 66 comments
		dgabriel on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term? Woman programmer here: I automatically assumed they were looking for college aged men. "Brogrammer," is not a unisex term, no matter how they try to spin it.
23.		Your FAQ could be answering 40% of support requests and save you 8 hrs/mo (uservoice.com)
		101 points by rrwhite on Oct 28, 2011 \| 34 comments
24.		Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering (phoronix.com)
		90 points by ukdm on Oct 28, 2011 \| 25 comments
25.		Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites (hackaday.com)
		89 points by profquail on Oct 28, 2011 \| 9 comments
		yanw on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police ... Let's compare Google's stats with the rest of the industry .. Oh, wait! we can't! because no one else publishes a transparency report. You can't knock Google for complying with the law and not devoting resources to fruitlessly fight every court order and removal request when the goal of their transparency effort is to highlight the problems with that law and try and change it. They're doing something unique and are trying to fix the larger problem yet some people still give them shit for it.
27.		Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye (nerdgap.com)
		84 points by wyclif on Oct 28, 2011 \| 108 comments
28.		Build a Simple Twilio Customer Support Line in 10 minutes (moocode.com)
		81 points by moomerman on Oct 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
		bh42222 on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radia... If you enjoy reading long prose articles, with plenty of human content, do not let the following tl;dr: spoil this article for you: tl;dr: A cylinder of cobalt, probably used in a medical instrument. Things like that are understandably very expensive to properly and legally dispose of. Somehow it ended up in a heap of scrap copper.
		benwerd on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term? Male programmer in his thirties here: I automatically assumed they were looking for assholes.
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