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1. Microsoft does away with stack ranking (zdnet.com)
489 points by cnahr on Nov 12, 2013 | 157 comments
2. Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt (theguardian.com)
409 points by sdfjkl on Nov 12, 2013 | 267 comments
3. Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help (wired.com)
392 points by digital55 on Nov 12, 2013 | 358 comments
4. Heirloom Chemistry Set (kickstarter.com)
346 points by fr0sty on Nov 12, 2013 | 143 comments
5. FTL: Advanced Edition (ftlgame.com)
311 points by nuriaion on Nov 12, 2013 | 142 comments
6. How long do disk drives last? (backblaze.com)
311 points by vayan on Nov 12, 2013 | 158 comments
7. End of Inception decoded [video] (sourcefed.com)
279 points by pavanlimo on Nov 12, 2013 | 121 comments
8. Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (randomwire.com)
270 points by spinningarrow on Nov 12, 2013 | 129 comments
9. What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming (yinwang0.wordpress.com)
227 points by roguelynn on Nov 12, 2013 | 142 comments
10. Dataset: Databases for lazy people (readthedocs.org)
204 points by ikuyamada on Nov 12, 2013 | 49 comments
11. How I Ate No Food for 30 Days (vice.com)
213 points by hoov on Nov 12, 2013 | 287 comments
12. The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (fpgacomputing.blogspot.com)
193 points by grinich on Nov 12, 2013 | 85 comments
13. Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets (theguardian.com)
189 points by frank_boyd on Nov 12, 2013 | 175 comments
14. Soylent on the latest Vice piece (soylent.me)
181 points by caublestone on Nov 12, 2013 | 195 comments
15. Web.go – Web applications with Go (webgo.io)
182 points by kissgyorgy on Nov 12, 2013 | 56 comments
16. Portable Native Client (chromium.org)
179 points by amaks on Nov 12, 2013 | 135 comments
17. Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools (hacks.mozilla.org)
180 points by rnyman on Nov 12, 2013 | 18 comments
18. $4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes (coindesk.com)
175 points by chaz on Nov 12, 2013 | 173 comments
19. The perils of mixing open source and money (heinemeierhansson.com)
176 points by _pius on Nov 12, 2013 | 49 comments
20. Benchmarking Codswallop: Node.js vs. PHP (philsturgeon.co.uk)
163 points by there4 on Nov 12, 2013 | 82 comments
21. Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People (nytimes.com)
155 points by webjunkie on Nov 12, 2013 | 287 comments
22. Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors (insightdatascience.com)
148 points by jakek on Nov 12, 2013 | 64 comments
23. The plot against France (nytimes.com)
140 points by galactus on Nov 12, 2013 | 80 comments
24. The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995) (nytimes.com)
144 points by kitcar on Nov 12, 2013 | 71 comments
25. Show HN: We built our startup in 100 days (giveit100.com)
147 points by Finbarr on Nov 12, 2013 | 102 comments
26. Quant turned whistle blower explains how the market is rigged [video] (cnn.com)
147 points by gpvos on Nov 12, 2013 | 100 comments
27. Google launches Portable Native Client (thenextweb.com)
125 points by hackhackhack on Nov 12, 2013 | 111 comments
28. CyanogenMod Installer Release (cyanogenmod.org)
119 points by CrazedGeek on Nov 12, 2013 | 46 comments
29. MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmful way (use-the-index-luke.com)
118 points by davvid on Nov 12, 2013 | 121 comments
30. Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum (9to5mac.com)
118 points by iamtechaddict on Nov 12, 2013 | 18 comments

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