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1.		Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		344 points by pg on Nov 12, 2010 \| 77 comments
2.		Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday (techcrunch.com)
		231 points by obilgic on Nov 12, 2010 \| 207 comments
3.		Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (fanfiction.net)
		223 points by robertk on Nov 12, 2010 \| 87 comments
4.		Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)
		215 points by hornokplease on Nov 12, 2010 \| 35 comments
5.		Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X (apple.com)
		200 points by cstuder on Nov 12, 2010 \| 98 comments
6.		How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses (techcrunch.com)
		199 points by siddhant on Nov 12, 2010 \| 38 comments
7.		The one true REST explanation (martinfowler.com)
		194 points by jipumarino on Nov 12, 2010 \| 47 comments
8.		Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook (techcrunch.com)
		191 points by tlack on Nov 12, 2010 \| 145 comments
9.		Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh (code.google.com)
		187 points by jhrobert on Nov 12, 2010 \| 93 comments
		trotsky on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming ... If facebook can really deliver a rock solid web mail client, I think they will really be a company to watch in the rest of 1996 and 1997. If they play their cards right they may get snapped up by an industry powerhouse like yahoo or excite@home for eight figures.
11.		Why Google can’t build Instagram (scobleizer.com)
		137 points by edanm on Nov 12, 2010 \| 47 comments
12.		I broke textCAPTCHA with Python (textcaptchabreaker.appspot.com)
		135 points by Xk on Nov 12, 2010 \| 54 comments
13.		Multi-tabling poker player plays 120 tables at a time, verified human (twoplustwo.com)
		124 points by LiveTheDream on Nov 12, 2010 \| 32 comments
14.		Breakfast is Overrated (dilbert.com)
		117 points by jeff18 on Nov 12, 2010 \| 86 comments
15.		Modern Perl, the book, is Available. (modernperlbooks.com)
		111 points by dtby on Nov 12, 2010 \| 15 comments
16.		Google Bowls a Googly - Possible invalidation of Oracle's patents (computerworlduk.com)
		108 points by bluesmoon on Nov 12, 2010 \| 32 comments
		mrshoe on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Face... Sounds like a good way for Google to guarantee that every one of their engineers will apply for a job at Facebook, just for the chance of getting an offer.
18.		JQuery 1.4.4 Released (jquery.com)
		98 points by vladocar on Nov 12, 2010 \| 16 comments
19.		Heroku is Hiring
		on Nov 12, 2010
20.		The Instapaper Default.png dilemma (marco.org)
		84 points by mattparcher on Nov 12, 2010 \| 29 comments
21.		Robot wars break out on poker sites (theregister.co.uk)
		83 points by mootothemax on Nov 12, 2010 \| 75 comments
22.		The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions (norvig.com)
		83 points by albertcardona on Nov 12, 2010 \| 36 comments
		Tyrannosaurs on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming ... Zuckerberg is absolutely the man I want to trust with my e-mail.
		ericflo on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming ... That's the scariest thing I've read so far today.
25.		A VC: Storm Clouds (avc.com)
		76 points by bjonathan on Nov 12, 2010 \| 32 comments
26.		Is genius simply the product of hard work? (wsj.com)
		76 points by grellas on Nov 12, 2010 \| 51 comments
27.		Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years (dcs-media.com)
		74 points by fogus on Nov 12, 2010 \| 13 comments
28.		Creating a Lisp Executable (stackoverflow.com)
		73 points by alrex021 on Nov 12, 2010 \| 20 comments
		milkshakes on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler th... gotta love the url http://code.google.com/p/anic/
30.		To code quickly, you must quit coding (whattofix.com)
		68 points by DanielBMarkham on Nov 12, 2010 \| 34 comments
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