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1.Scott Forstall leaves Apple (apple.com)
470 points by FredericJ on Oct 29, 2012 | 313 comments
2.No, I still don't want to work for Google (infotrope.net)
460 points by chris_wot on Oct 29, 2012 | 396 comments
3.North Carolina teacher's resignation letter (dianeravitch.net)
367 points by bwsewell on Oct 29, 2012 | 302 comments
4.The lactose-tolerance mutation (slate.com)
319 points by MaysonL on Oct 29, 2012 | 169 comments
5.Forstall Out; Ive Up (daringfireball.net)
245 points by rkrishnakumar on Oct 29, 2012 | 124 comments
6.Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it) (blog.mozilla.org)
243 points by spindritf on Oct 29, 2012 | 107 comments
7.Always “hover” before you click? Wrong. (frameloss.org)
220 points by zdw on Oct 29, 2012 | 101 comments
8.Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage (amazon.com)
205 points by dutchbrit on Oct 29, 2012 | 202 comments
9.Hacking language learning (rinik.net)
188 points by Void_ on Oct 29, 2012 | 52 comments
10.I Don't Have Time (swanson.github.com)
178 points by mileszs on Oct 29, 2012 | 33 comments
11.Stack Overflow's Original 99designs Logo Contest (99designs.com)
160 points by dmazin on Oct 29, 2012 | 129 comments
12.Valve: Linux More Open Than Windows 8 for Gaming (ubuntuvibes.com)
149 points by dartttt on Oct 29, 2012 | 93 comments
13.Wind Map (hint.fm)
141 points by sethbannon on Oct 29, 2012 | 23 comments
14.Show HN: we open sourced our Django drip email app (github.com/zapier)
126 points by bryanh on Oct 29, 2012 | 33 comments
15.Show HN: Propeller - Create native mobile apps, just drag and drop (usepropeller.com)
126 points by 10char on Oct 29, 2012 | 37 comments
16.AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014 (anandtech.com)
124 points by skept on Oct 29, 2012 | 35 comments
17.High Scalability - All Time Favorites (highscalability.com)
125 points by zerop on Oct 29, 2012 | 11 comments
18.RIAA Failed To Disclose Expert’s Lobbying History to “Six-Strikes” Partners (torrentfreak.com)
124 points by evo_9 on Oct 29, 2012 | 4 comments
19.Ruby Under a Microscope: Learning Ruby Internals through Experiment (patshaughnessy.net)
124 points by lest on Oct 29, 2012 | 37 comments
20.How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything (arstechnica.com)
115 points by jseliger on Oct 29, 2012 | 62 comments
21.Kort - a thumbnail preview concept (hakim.se)
107 points by thisisblurry on Oct 29, 2012 | 34 comments
22.Netflix: Post-mortem of 22 Oct AWS degradation (netflix.com)
105 points by jedberg on Oct 29, 2012 | 20 comments
23.Bootstrap Live Editor (wrapbootstrap.com)
101 points by coderdude on Oct 29, 2012 | 21 comments
24.Show HN: Userfox (YC S11) — Better Welcome Emails (userfox.com)
100 points by pclark on Oct 29, 2012 | 52 comments
25.WSJ Ignores 5 other Square co-founders (philipithomas.com)
79 points by philip1209 on Oct 29, 2012 | 40 comments
26.Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
68 points by stopachka on Oct 29, 2012 | 28 comments
27.RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi released (riscosopen.org)
65 points by zdw on Oct 29, 2012 | 28 comments
28.Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app (tommoor.github.com)
64 points by tommoor on Oct 29, 2012 | 25 comments
29.The Let's-Sell-Our-House-And-See-the-World Retirement (wsj.com)
59 points by victorology on Oct 29, 2012 | 39 comments
30.PayPal to lay off 325 employees and 120 contractors (businesswire.com)
58 points by techinsidr on Oct 29, 2012 | 23 comments

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