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1.Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT (boingboing.net)
687 points by andrewdumont on Nov 16, 2011 | 111 comments
2.SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live (house.gov)
485 points by bproper on Nov 16, 2011 | 253 comments
3.Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (alexmaccaw.co.uk)
485 points by maccman on Nov 16, 2011 | 148 comments
4.Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe (geek.com)
422 points by ukdm on Nov 16, 2011 | 122 comments
5.A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history (matthewweathers.com)
272 points by pud on Nov 16, 2011 | 66 comments
6.Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100 (arstechnica.com)
207 points by evo_9 on Nov 16, 2011 | 122 comments
7.Williams: Master of the "Come From" (github.com/raganwald)
195 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 | 40 comments
8.What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)
176 points by andrewvalish on Nov 16, 2011 | 33 comments
9.RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases (extremetech.com)
168 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 | 76 comments
10.TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners (propublica.org)
165 points by danso on Nov 16, 2011 | 36 comments
11.Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate by 10x (extremetech.com)
158 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 | 71 comments
12.Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination. (thenextweb.com)
157 points by soy714 on Nov 16, 2011 | 24 comments
13.Readability service to become free (readability.com)
154 points by andycroll on Nov 16, 2011 | 61 comments
14.John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers (cycle-gap.blogspot.com)
152 points by rams on Nov 16, 2011 | 142 comments
15.Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?
144 points by Archio on Nov 16, 2011 | 24 comments
16.Scoble: Why I'm treating startups more critically lately (plus.google.com)
140 points by domino on Nov 16, 2011 | 63 comments
17.How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (brentozar.com)
132 points by jswinghammer on Nov 16, 2011 | 54 comments
18.Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service (itunes.apple.com)
131 points by phil on Nov 16, 2011 | 38 comments
19.Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009) (johndcook.com)
123 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 | 76 comments
20.Why we’re working our young people too hard (lkd.cc)
124 points by ZenJosh on Nov 16, 2011 | 109 comments
21.Life Below 600px (iampaddy.com)
121 points by bmaeser on Nov 16, 2011 | 36 comments
22.How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive (jgc.org)
119 points by jgrahamc on Nov 16, 2011 | 111 comments
23.The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ (xda-developers.com)
120 points by maqr on Nov 16, 2011 | 20 comments
24.Show HN: HourlyPuppy (heroku.com)
118 points by jfi on Nov 16, 2011 | 52 comments
25.Why Is Payroll Hard - Ron Jeffries (c2.com)
108 points by chrismealy on Nov 16, 2011 | 52 comments
26.Yipit Django Blog: Why You Need a Git Pre-Commit Hook (yipit.com)
108 points by nantes on Nov 16, 2011 | 19 comments
27.Ask HN: Please stop "This."
102 points by juiceandjuice on Nov 16, 2011 | 71 comments
28.Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores (nwsource.com)
101 points by jhack on Nov 16, 2011 | 39 comments
29.Announcing Cappuccino 0.9.5 (cappuccino.org)
94 points by Me1000 on Nov 16, 2011 | 20 comments
30.The Movie Set That Ate Itself (gq.com)
87 points by Titanous on Nov 16, 2011 | 12 comments

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