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1. Steve Jobs's Real Genius (newyorker.com)
414 points by iamclovin on Nov 7, 2011 | 145 comments
2. Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year. (enqueueapp.com)
301 points by overcyn on Nov 7, 2011 | 130 comments
3. I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords. (github.com/juuso)
227 points by aparadja on Nov 7, 2011 | 117 comments
4. One-time Secret: Share passwords etc with URIs that work only once (onetimesecret.com)
219 points by delano on Nov 7, 2011 | 104 comments
5. Something is wrong with this picture. (w3.org)
192 points by Nemmie on Nov 7, 2011 | 81 comments
6. Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital (facebook.com)
184 points by wijnglas on Nov 7, 2011 | 49 comments
7. Growl fork maintainer banned from Growl mailinglist after fixing bugs (basementcoders.com)
170 points by anon1385 on Nov 7, 2011 | 71 comments
8. Handle Incoming Emails like a Pro (Mailgun API 2.0) (mailgun.net)
159 points by old-gregg on Nov 7, 2011 | 23 comments
9. Revisiting Google App Engine's pricing changes (gregtracy.com)
155 points by southpolesteve on Nov 7, 2011 | 19 comments
10. The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network (arstechnica.com)
153 points by divy on Nov 7, 2011 | 51 comments
11. Cinder: open-source creative C++ (libcinder.org)
151 points by kenamarit on Nov 7, 2011 | 22 comments
12. Guide to Node.js (nodebeginner.org)
151 points by goatcurious on Nov 7, 2011 | 10 comments
13. Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27 (techcrunch.com)
148 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 7, 2011 | 58 comments
14. Official Release of Google+ Pages (googleblog.blogspot.com)
144 points by xpressyoo on Nov 7, 2011 | 121 comments
15. IPhone 4S against all other iPhone models (low light shooting) (campl.us)
138 points by mrpollo on Nov 7, 2011 | 43 comments
16. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine (slyphon.com)
127 points by slyphon on Nov 7, 2011 | 52 comments
17. How can I teach a bright person with no programming experience how to program? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
120 points by ekm2 on Nov 7, 2011 | 108 comments
18. MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0 (luigimontanez.com)
120 points by joshuacc on Nov 7, 2011 | 49 comments
19. Scenes from Earth on the Voyager Spacecraft (nasa.gov)
113 points by sama on Nov 7, 2011 | 61 comments
20. Hubot Play (zachholman.com)
107 points by rsenk330 on Nov 7, 2011 | 18 comments
21. Smiley Slider (glittle.org)
104 points by john_horton on Nov 7, 2011 | 12 comments
22. The Tyranny of Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
99 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 7, 2011 | 135 comments
23. MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology) (seancribbs.com)
100 points by luigi on Nov 7, 2011 | 25 comments
24. Stross: Klout violates UK privacy laws. (antipope.org)
99 points by tsellon on Nov 7, 2011 | 61 comments
25. Data-Driven Transformations in Javascript (mbostock.github.com)
95 points by sew on Nov 7, 2011 | 10 comments
26. If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame (gigaom.com)
94 points by nextparadigms on Nov 7, 2011 | 34 comments
27. Bias Lighting (codinghorror.com)
92 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 7, 2011 | 34 comments
28. Pushing the Limits of Amazon S3 Upload Performance (improve.dk)
89 points by sorenbs on Nov 7, 2011 | 17 comments
29. I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Objective-C fixed that. (red-sweater.com)
85 points by falling on Nov 7, 2011 | 79 comments
30. Barnes & Noble Officially Unveils The 7-Inch Nook Tablet (techcrunch.com)
81 points by lgv on Nov 7, 2011 | 37 comments

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