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1. Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support (theunderstatement.com)
450 points by estel on Oct 27, 2011 | 225 comments
2. Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license) (macosforge.org)
395 points by scorchin on Oct 27, 2011 | 177 comments
3. Starcraft 2 Automated Player (stanford.edu)
381 points by nostromo on Oct 27, 2011 | 43 comments
4. Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction (stallman.org)
356 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 27, 2011 | 391 comments
5. Why We Moved Off The Cloud (mixpanel.com)
341 points by btmorex on Oct 27, 2011 | 151 comments
6. Rent a Mac in the cloud for development (macincloud.com)
322 points by mwexler on Oct 27, 2011 | 171 comments
7. Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality (readwriteweb.com)
322 points by jonmwords on Oct 27, 2011 | 44 comments
8. RSS Rant (feliciaday.com)
278 points by hollerith on Oct 27, 2011 | 101 comments
9. Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever (eff.org)
237 points by there on Oct 27, 2011 | 20 comments
10. Google+ is now available with Google Apps (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
200 points by tomkarlo on Oct 27, 2011 | 48 comments
11. Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment (itwire.com)
198 points by darkduck on Oct 27, 2011 | 326 comments
12. Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute" (infoq.com)
181 points by puredanger on Oct 27, 2011 | 30 comments
13. The answer is 2011. The question can be brute force. (qbonnard.github.com)
156 points by qbonnard on Oct 27, 2011 | 20 comments
14. Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac (cnn.com)
155 points by pg on Oct 27, 2011 | 109 comments
15. Your DNA may carry a ‘memory’ of your living conditions in childhood (scienceblog.com)
143 points by pg on Oct 27, 2011 | 54 comments
16. You are the nth person alive on earth (bbc.co.uk)
134 points by snaveint on Oct 27, 2011 | 57 comments
17. Dropbox for Teams (dropbox.com)
120 points by tilt on Oct 27, 2011 | 64 comments
18. Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation (visualisingdata.com)
117 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2011 | 18 comments
19. ARM adopts 64-bit architecture (tgdaily.com)
113 points by codedivine on Oct 27, 2011 | 48 comments
20. DARPA: reconstruct shredded documents, win $50,000 (shredderchallenge.com)
103 points by mef on Oct 27, 2011 | 49 comments
21. Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API (arstechnica.com)
101 points by shawndumas on Oct 27, 2011 | 83 comments
22. Punchd - A Loyalty Program (from Google) (getpunchd.com)
103 points by jedc on Oct 27, 2011 | 50 comments
23. Data centers are too reliable (dmerr.tumblr.com)
93 points by dm_mongodb on Oct 27, 2011 | 25 comments
24. The Underground Guide to Press Coverage for Startups (giftrocket.com)
92 points by kapilkale on Oct 27, 2011 | 14 comments
25. Google maps usage fees (programmableweb.com)
83 points by djd on Oct 27, 2011 | 46 comments
26. All your Bayes are belong to us: fun Bayes's Theorem problems. (allendowney.blogspot.com)
80 points by AllenDowney on Oct 27, 2011 | 5 comments
27. Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder (venturebeat.com)
75 points by dabent on Oct 27, 2011 | 55 comments
28. Easy To Cancel makes it Easier to Sign Up (gettingmoreawesome.com)
75 points by hshah on Oct 27, 2011 | 13 comments
29. Lifestyle Startups Stigma (appicurious.com)
74 points by hristiank on Oct 27, 2011 | 50 comments
30. The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident (stackoverflow.com)
71 points by donohoe on Oct 27, 2011 | 6 comments

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