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1. The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking (capricorn.org)
275 points by jamesbritt on Sept 17, 2011 | 53 comments
2. ORM is an anti-pattern (seldo.com)
232 points by ExpiredLink on Sept 17, 2011 | 128 comments
3. James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash. (nighthacks.com)
164 points by Krylez on Sept 17, 2011 | 52 comments
4. My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling (nytimes.com)
149 points by lachyg on Sept 17, 2011 | 41 comments
5. The Joy of Indexing (kylebanker.com)
141 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 17, 2011 | 11 comments
6. Firefox Now Scores 100% on Acid3 Test (browserfame.com)
141 points by twapi on Sept 17, 2011 | 47 comments
7. Show HN: We measure classroom confusion (classmetric.com)
133 points by pkrein on Sept 17, 2011 | 32 comments
8. Facebook's Newest Problem: Being Boring (theatlanticwire.com)
133 points by wavephorm on Sept 17, 2011 | 58 comments
9. I know my lack of extreme excitement can be off-putting (gabrielweinberg.com)
103 points by domino on Sept 17, 2011 | 47 comments
10. Look out for No. 1 (timharford.com)
102 points by yread on Sept 17, 2011 | 26 comments
11. Inferno on Android (9fans.net)
100 points by qrush on Sept 17, 2011 | 19 comments
12. Think in Go: Go's alternative to the multiple-inheritance mindset. (groups.google.com)
92 points by peregrine on Sept 17, 2011 | 26 comments
13. Bootstrapping / startup-life-hacks we’ve learned (so far) (maplebutter.com)
90 points by turoczy on Sept 17, 2011 | 28 comments
14. Why aren't ◎ܫ◎ and ☺ valid Javascript variable names? (stackoverflow.com)
86 points by mambodog on Sept 17, 2011 | 20 comments
15. Web Vi (code.google.com)
86 points by robertmrangel on Sept 17, 2011 | 25 comments
16. Run, Python, Run (hbfs.wordpress.com)
84 points by jemeshsu on Sept 17, 2011 | 8 comments
17. NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet prizes (nowjs.com)
80 points by sthatipamala on Sept 17, 2011 | 23 comments
18. Bitcoin days destroyed - explained (bitcoin.stackexchange.com)
76 points by sathishmanohar on Sept 17, 2011 | 17 comments
19. Deploying Django on Heroku (blog.abhiomkar.in)
76 points by abhiomkar on Sept 17, 2011 | 18 comments
20. Cocoapods: An Objective-C library package manager (github.com/alloy)
67 points by jamesjyu on Sept 17, 2011 | 21 comments
21. Will program Ruby for food
66 points by lobo_tuerto on Sept 17, 2011 | 41 comments
22. Paper: It's Time for Low Latency (stanford.edu)
63 points by necenzurat on Sept 17, 2011 | 21 comments
23. Better Volunteering for Web Geeks (atroche.org)
60 points by atroche on Sept 17, 2011 | 33 comments
24. When Kickstarter Goes Wrong (betabeat.com)
60 points by larrys on Sept 17, 2011 | 29 comments
25. Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed (anandtech.com)
53 points by yread on Sept 17, 2011 | 51 comments
26. John Sculley on Steve Jobs (fins.com)
49 points by jedwhite on Sept 17, 2011 | 11 comments
27. Customer culture (marco.org)
49 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 17, 2011 | 7 comments
28. Are you building an empire, sparking a powder keg, or starting a movement? (gabrielweinberg.com)
47 points by amirhhz on Sept 17, 2011 | 8 comments
29. Scientists discover 'hidden' code in DNA evolves more rapidly than genetic code (sciencedaily.com)
45 points by J3L2404 on Sept 17, 2011 | 14 comments
30. The Google Puzzle (thegooglepuzzle.com)
45 points by tianshuo on Sept 17, 2011 | 39 comments

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