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1.		Cracking OSX Lion passwords (defenceindepth.net)
		281 points by eis on Sept 18, 2011 \| 79 comments
2.		Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for the state of Berlin (piratenpartei.de)
		253 points by FrojoS on Sept 18, 2011 \| 65 comments
3.		Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing (worldofsu.com)
		245 points by anaisbetts on Sept 18, 2011 \| 97 comments
4.		HTML5 Map of the the World Migrations using SVG, Raphael.js and offline storage (migrationsmap.net)
		240 points by madewulf on Sept 18, 2011 \| 64 comments
5.		Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator. (moeedm.com)
		163 points by moeedm on Sept 18, 2011 \| 40 comments
6.		Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography (endtwist.github.com)
		154 points by endtwist on Sept 18, 2011 \| 30 comments
7.		Why two men committing the same crime get different chances at a parole (nytimes.com)
		144 points by sidwyn on Sept 18, 2011 \| 43 comments
8.		Gamers solve molecular puzzle (msn.com)
		137 points by sew on Sept 18, 2011 \| 27 comments
9.		Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy)
		128 points by Smrchy on Sept 18, 2011 \| 34 comments
10.		Learn REST: A Tutorial (elkstein.org)
		126 points by parenthesis on Sept 18, 2011 \| 52 comments
11.		Building a Fashion Company on the Internet? Stop. Just stop. (melanie.io)
		122 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 18, 2011 \| 90 comments
12.		Latitude doesn’t exactly mean what I thought (johndcook.com)
		111 points by wglb on Sept 18, 2011 \| 21 comments
		use it but sparingly
		103 points \| parent
14.		Notepad of all my startup ideas (myasmine.com)
		98 points by myasmine on Sept 18, 2011 \| 31 comments
15.		Obama Signs Patent ‘Reform’ Bill (wired.com)
		97 points by ubasu on Sept 18, 2011 \| 58 comments
16.		Don't Be So F*cking Strategic (sriramk.tumblr.com)
		96 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 18, 2011 \| 55 comments
17.		Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing (mysqlperformanceblog.com)
		86 points by LiveTheDream on Sept 18, 2011 \| 52 comments
18.		Arduino launches new products in maker faire (arduino.cc)
		86 points by Garbage on Sept 18, 2011 \| 21 comments
		use it frequently
		79 points \| parent
20.		Ward Cunningham on Exploratory Parsing (c2.com)
		77 points by olliesaunders on Sept 18, 2011 \| 6 comments
21.		Are you like me? Or do you have discipline? (kevinjcurtin.com)
		75 points by kcurtin on Sept 18, 2011 \| 30 comments
22.		Mulberry: A Development Framework for Mobile Apps (rmurphey.com)
		67 points by nprincigalli on Sept 18, 2011 \| 9 comments
23.		Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (fooledbyrandomness.com)
		64 points by ahalan on Sept 18, 2011 \| 28 comments
		retube on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator. Top of hacker news: a dot that.... pulses. And doesn't even work in most browsers. I mean I know it's the weekend and maybe a slow news day, but really?
		saurik on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typ... This library is misusing vendor prefixes :(... -webkit-* should be an area for WebKit to define custom CSS property, not for this library to tag things "only if using WebKit". If WebKit eventually decides to experiment with a word-color CSS property this is just going to cause problems. Instead, to fit with the standard way people define CSS properties, this library should be taking a prefix for itself, like -kerning-*, and then defining any of its extensions to CSS within that namespace: that way it is almost guaranteed to not cause problems going forward.
		wheels on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for ... Piracy has been a term for unauthorized copying of works for over 400 years [1][2]. It's not an analogy; it's just one of the meanings of the word. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Pirac... [2] http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html
27.		Israel Becomes CERN Associate Member (globes.co.il)
		60 points by wslh on Sept 18, 2011 \| 25 comments
		used it but no longer using it
		58 points \| parent
29.		South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail (hani.co.kr)
		57 points by ajdecon on Sept 18, 2011 \| 40 comments
30.		Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth (High-Res) (sugar.io)
		58 points by themichael on Sept 18, 2011 \| 12 comments
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