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1.Spark (github.com/holman)
568 points by lrvick on Nov 15, 2011 | 95 comments
2.How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code (nathanbarry.com)
498 points by nathanbarry on Nov 15, 2011 | 137 comments
3.US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America (theagilepanda.com)
429 points by stupandaus on Nov 15, 2011 | 73 comments
4.This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years (sfgate.com)
427 points by olegious on Nov 15, 2011 | 257 comments
5.Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't (danshapiro.com)
390 points by randfish on Nov 15, 2011 | 98 comments
6.Modern Web Applications are Here (pocoo.org)
262 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 15, 2011 | 108 comments
7.Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
263 points by Matt_Cutts on Nov 15, 2011 | 162 comments

Reminds me, I should write my own story of how I made $190 on the App Store while exercising 15 years of coding experience.
9.Fail Upwards (cstthegate.com)
191 points by bennesvig on Nov 15, 2011 | 18 comments
10."Build something people want" is not enough (avichal.wordpress.com)
195 points by avichal on Nov 15, 2011 | 57 comments
11.Stanford releases latest iOS 5 programming class (itunes.apple.com)
183 points by MaxGabriel on Nov 15, 2011 | 8 comments
12.Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript (feval.info)
184 points by triptych on Nov 15, 2011 | 27 comments
13.Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded” (techcrunch.com)
171 points by llambda on Nov 15, 2011 | 128 comments
14.The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth (extendny.com)
165 points by kikibobo69 on Nov 15, 2011 | 50 comments
15.How Google makes Google(+) fast (plus.google.com)
157 points by jvandenbroeck on Nov 15, 2011 | 32 comments
16.The plumber programmer (johndcook.com)
125 points by ColinWright on Nov 15, 2011 | 42 comments
17.What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem (boingboing.net)
110 points by danshapiro on Nov 15, 2011 | 98 comments
18.High IQ linked to drug use (cnn.com)
111 points by orky56 on Nov 15, 2011 | 84 comments
19.Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC (geek.com)
109 points by ukdm on Nov 15, 2011 | 82 comments
20.Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required" (usajobs.gov)
105 points by anonymoustrolol on Nov 15, 2011 | 50 comments
21.NodeQuery is a realtime server-side DOM API (github.com/tblobaum)
104 points by funthree on Nov 15, 2011 | 24 comments
22.My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework (mulqueeny.wordpress.com)
104 points by robinhouston on Nov 15, 2011 | 112 comments
23.Facebook Tells Salman Rushdie He Has to Go By His Given Name, Ahmed Rushdie (theatlantic.com)
103 points by jamesbritt on Nov 15, 2011 | 40 comments

"At the time, the only way to donate marrow was to basically have someone drill holes in your bones and drain your skeleton, which kind of terrified me. Nowadays, of course, most donations require nothing more than sitting still for a few hours with an IV watching television."

That actually isn't really true. Marrow donations still require anesthesia and a surgical procedure. In the interest of providing full information:

http://marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQs.as...

http://marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQs.as...

(Edit: c'mon folks...why in the world would you vote this down? It's important information to know if you're going to be a donor.)

25.House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Industry Concerns About SOPA (techdirt.com)
99 points by d0ne on Nov 15, 2011 | 35 comments
26.WeekendHacker (weekendhacker.net)
98 points by heelhook on Nov 15, 2011 | 25 comments
27.Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation (infoq.com)
80 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 15, 2011 | 40 comments
28.Steve Jobs biography -- Isaacson blew it (daringfireball.net)
73 points by pmattos on Nov 15, 2011 | 103 comments
29.Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (nytimes.com)
73 points by gopi on Nov 15, 2011 | 85 comments
30.2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S. (fastcompany.com)
72 points by kul on Nov 15, 2011 | 32 comments

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