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1.		Python for Humans (speakerdeck.com)
		256 points by ColinWright on Nov 11, 2012 \| 73 comments
2.		Show HN: RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history (rewindhn.com)
		250 points by kami8845 on Nov 11, 2012 \| 51 comments
3.		Non-hiring Practices (diiq.org)
		227 points by diiq on Nov 11, 2012 \| 127 comments
4.		Smuggling USB Sticks (shkspr.mobi)
		219 points by edent on Nov 11, 2012 \| 93 comments
5.		Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time (disappearingromney.com)
		191 points by ptrwtts on Nov 11, 2012 \| 90 comments
6.		Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon (mashable.com)
		135 points by MichaelApproved on Nov 11, 2012 \| 91 comments
7.		Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s) (scatmania.org)
		128 points by jaynate on Nov 11, 2012 \| 32 comments
8.		Fear, senseless violence, and shitty drugs (nsfwcorp.com)
		126 points by DmitDav on Nov 11, 2012 \| 69 comments
9.		There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		119 points by 001sky on Nov 11, 2012 \| 36 comments
10.		Randall Munroe Responds to Gelman's Criticism of XKCD (andrewgelman.com)
		121 points by aaronjg on Nov 11, 2012 \| 27 comments
11.		I like Gnome Shell (malexandre.fr)
		119 points by Thagor on Nov 11, 2012 \| 80 comments
		nostromo on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTi... Someone on StackOverflow suggested we think of ugly Java class names as poetry; he provided an example: `InternalFrame InternalFrame Title Pane, Internal Frame Title Pane. Maximize Button Window, Not Focused State.` http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697215/what-is-your-favo...
13.		Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API (tts-api.com)
		111 points by typeofNaN on Nov 11, 2012 \| 48 comments
14.		3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM (kotek.net)
		105 points by qwerta on Nov 11, 2012 \| 37 comments
15.		Innovation is a Fight (randsinrepose.com)
		85 points by filament on Nov 11, 2012 \| 20 comments
16.		I don't like this cartoon (andrewgelman.com)
		82 points by pav3l on Nov 11, 2012 \| 54 comments
17.		Hacker News App Comparison for Android (thomas.do)
		74 points by kjemperud on Nov 11, 2012 \| 32 comments
18.		Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM (github.com/qtile)
		72 points by tych0 on Nov 11, 2012 \| 33 comments
19.		Divshot – Interface Builder for Web Apps (divshot.com)
		66 points by robingchan on Nov 11, 2012 \| 6 comments
20.		Tweetro Slams into Twitter 100K Token Limit (windowsobserver.com)
		64 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 11, 2012 \| 15 comments
21.		Ending the cults of personality in free software (aseigo.blogspot.ch)
		64 points by Who828 on Nov 11, 2012 \| 52 comments
22.		Hitchhiking’s Time Has Come Again (nytimes.com)
		63 points by georgecmu on Nov 11, 2012 \| 37 comments
23.		World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth to Open in Japan (spoon-tamago.com)
		63 points by esolyt on Nov 11, 2012 \| 11 comments
24.		The Infinite Jukebox (echonest.com)
		63 points by brianwhitman on Nov 11, 2012 \| 5 comments
25.		The Web Can Do That? (video) (developers.google.com)
		62 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 11, 2012 \| 10 comments
26.		On the importance of gestures in public speaking (andrespagella.com)
		63 points by mapagella on Nov 11, 2012 \| 24 comments
27.		Bootstrap Designer – Generate Bootstrap Templates (bootstrapdesigner.com)
		61 points by yusw on Nov 11, 2012 \| 24 comments
		ceejayoz on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For ... > paying 21 million dollars for a clock design on your mobile OS seems to me like complete insanity Well, they're not. They're paying 21 million dollars in exchange for not getting sued for more than that.
29.		Levenshtein distance and the Triangle Inequality (richardminerich.com)
		60 points by alter8 on Nov 11, 2012 \| 8 comments
		EliRivers on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Smuggling USB Sticks This is by design; when you set up a situation where everyone is a criminal, any time you decide you want to haul someone in or stick someone in jail, you'll have no trouble finding something they're guilty of.
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