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1.I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make (reddit.com)
601 points by amirmc on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 277 comments [ext]
2.US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (arstechnica.com)
434 points by gigawatt on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
3.How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow? (stackoverflow.com)
380 points by sathyabhat on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
4. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
4."What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm (eseanews.com)
339 points by janineyoong on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
5.Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years (ftc.gov)
201 points by count_zero on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
6.Yammer moving from Scala to Java (joda.org)
187 points by Jd on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
7. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps (getspool.com)
184 points by rubyorchard on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
8.Little Printer prints you a beautiful mini-newspaper. (bergcloud.com)
181 points by steren on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
9.Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign (googleblog.blogspot.com)
179 points by sahaj on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
10. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373) (scottaaronson.com)
166 points by davepeck on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
11.Stanford Free Class: Computer Security (security-class.org)
144 points by myffical on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
12.EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language (osnews.com)
141 points by thomholwerda on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
13. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
13.Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch (getinpulse.com)
139 points by erohead on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
14.Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof (geek.com)
129 points by ukdm on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
15.Show HN: elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis) (hastebin.com)
131 points by seejohnrun on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
16. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
16.Documents Reveal TSA Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
124 points by georgecmu on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
17.Avout: Distributed State in Clojure (clojure.com)
121 points by fogus on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
18.The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum (wired.com)
113 points by cwan on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
19. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
19.Another free course: Model Thinking (modelthinker-class.org)
106 points by corey on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
20.API Half-lives (gabrielweinberg.com)
106 points by bjplink on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.Think you understand Monty Hall? Try the Tuesday boy problem. (scienceblogs.com)
106 points by ColinWright on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 9 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
22.WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds (blog.wordpress.com)
106 points by Urgo on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
23.Fuzzy string search (ntz-develop.blogspot.com)
104 points by Animus7 on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
24.Programming languages cannot be copyrighted, says senior EU court adviser (itworld.com)
98 points by abennett on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.X86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered (plus.google.com)
97 points by andrewmunn on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
26.Tornado twice as fast with PyPy 1.7 compared to Python 2.7 (groups.google.com)
85 points by peterbe on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Why Noir doesn't have controllers (groups.google.com)
83 points by Mariel on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
28. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 474 days ago | hide | 135 comments
28.Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job (theregister.co.uk)
83 points by abhishektwr on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player Now Free & Unlimited, Real-Time Stats & More (jilion.com)
81 points by aidanhornsby on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
30.Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate, A Small Experiment (alexn.org)
75 points by bad_user on Nov 29, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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