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1. Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer (mint.com)
672 points by punkrobby on Dec 7, 2011 | 149 comments
2. Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses (cbslocal.com)
496 points by viggity on Dec 7, 2011 | 298 comments
3. You've Probably Read Enough (bennesvig.com)
410 points by bennesvig on Dec 7, 2011 | 72 comments
4. Thoughts on Python 3 (pocoo.org)
302 points by michaelty on Dec 7, 2011 | 118 comments
5. Please Donate to the Internet Archive (archive.org)
293 points by cleverjake on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
6. Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
217 points by wave on Dec 7, 2011 | 185 comments
7. Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page (hanselman.com)
200 points by joeyespo on Dec 7, 2011 | 38 comments
8. CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads (insecure.org)
192 points by skitzzo on Dec 7, 2011 | 74 comments
9. What I suspect Google is up to with Native Client (hackerspews.com)
187 points by forgotusername on Dec 7, 2011 | 89 comments
10. Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub (haacked.com)
181 points by misterbwong on Dec 7, 2011 | 124 comments
11. Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998. (github.com/welaika)
165 points by steffoz on Dec 7, 2011 | 85 comments
12. Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd) (deadmemes.net)
156 points by robinhouston on Dec 7, 2011 | 85 comments
13. After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, We’ve Lost Confidence In PayPal (techcrunch.com)
149 points by dolphenstein on Dec 7, 2011 | 81 comments
14. Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents (arstechnica.com)
144 points by evo_9 on Dec 7, 2011 | 55 comments
15. Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second. (dougaitken.tumblr.com)
139 points by dougaitken on Dec 7, 2011 | 29 comments
16. Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino (appleinsider.com)
137 points by davidedicillo on Dec 7, 2011 | 53 comments
17. Google Android: The Accidental Empire (nikcub.appspot.com)
133 points by nikcub on Dec 7, 2011 | 115 comments
18. Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript (elm-lang.org)
132 points by Rusky on Dec 7, 2011 | 50 comments
19. Can your REPL do this? (whalliburton.github.com)
119 points by whalliburton on Dec 7, 2011 | 35 comments
20. Five-minute Multimethods in Python (artima.com)
113 points by llambda on Dec 7, 2011 | 48 comments
21. A better search for visually similar images (cmu.edu)
108 points by pitdesi on Dec 7, 2011 | 11 comments
22. Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
107 points by gnosis on Dec 7, 2011 | 203 comments
23. Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images. (microsoft.com)
103 points by aashu_dwivedi on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
24. Scala's version fragility makes the enterprise argument near impossible (lift.la)
99 points by LiveTheDream on Dec 7, 2011 | 46 comments
25. Windows Store Revenue Split (daringfireball.net)
96 points by llambda on Dec 7, 2011 | 47 comments
26. Bill Gates, China talking about jointly developing nuclear reactor (cbc.ca)
89 points by tilt on Dec 7, 2011 | 40 comments
27. IntelliJ IDEA 11 is Out (jetbrains.com)
89 points by Garbage on Dec 7, 2011 | 37 comments
28. How to Add Django Database Caching in 5 Minutes (yipit.com)
87 points by Toddward on Dec 7, 2011 | 13 comments
29. Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C To Expand Abroad (techcrunch.com)
95 points by coloneltcb on Dec 7, 2011 | 37 comments
30. If you want to be truly intimidating... (jhnmyr.tumblr.com)
72 points by wallflower on Dec 7, 2011 | 11 comments

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