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1.		Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win (time.com)
		75 points by sek 2 hours ago \| 25 comments
2.		Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states (plus.google.com)
		475 points by btilly 10 hours ago \| 178 comments
3.		A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance [scribd] (mit.edu)
		50 points by denzil_correa 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
4.		“Don’t buy this computer.” (marco.org)
		30 points by shawndumas 1 hour ago \| 17 comments
5.		PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective (acm.org)
		41 points by jnazario 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
6.		25 Entrepreneurs: What I Wish I knew before Founding my First Startup (davidhauser.com)
		12 points by dh 1 hour ago \| discuss
7.		Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes (coloradodaily.com)
		366 points by neverm0re 10 hours ago \| 111 comments
8.		The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision (solipsys.co.uk)
		60 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago \| 18 comments
9.		Washington voters approve legalized marijuana (mynorthwest.com)
		328 points by llambda 10 hours ago \| 69 comments
10.		Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes (thenextweb.com)
		946 points by jipumarino 21 hours ago \| 610 comments
11.		Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial (squarepoet.com)
		46 points by ronyeh 4 hours ago \| 24 comments
12.		Co-Founder Material? Join Quad As We Take on Education
		31 minutes ago
13.		Show HN : My weekend(s) project - Strapfolio (strapfolio.com)
		21 points by anujkk 3 hours ago \| 11 comments
14.		Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now Open Source (hanselman.com)
		10 points by ot 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
15.		Bountify \| Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
		34 points by redDragon 4 hours ago \| 17 comments
16.		Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda. (techcrunch.com)
		148 points by jabo 10 hours ago \| 40 comments
17.		The Biggest Changes in C++11 (and Why You Should Care) (smartbear.com)
		32 points by redDragon 4 hours ago \| 10 comments
18.		Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild (arstechnica.com)
		61 points by glymor 7 hours ago \| 17 comments
19.		Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013 (theregister.co.uk)
		50 points by esalazar 2 hours ago \| 56 comments
20.		This service lets you use Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and Rdio from any country (thenextweb.com)
		11 points by jkaljundi 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
21.		Apple fined $368 million after losing FaceTime patent lawsuit (ibtimes.co.uk)
		7 points by Suraj-Sun 1 hour ago \| 5 comments
22.		RISC OS for Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
		47 points by wiradikusuma 7 hours ago \| 21 comments
23.		How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading (jspauld.com)
		498 points by jspaulding 1 day ago \| 271 comments
24.		Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works (cloudflare.com)
		635 points by ColinWright 1 day ago \| 144 comments
25.		The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (newcriterion.com)
		107 points by cup 12 hours ago \| 54 comments
26.		Me.ga Hackers: We’re Real Pirates & We’ll Sell Dotcom’s Domain To Universal (torrentfreak.com)
		42 points by Garbage 7 hours ago \| 10 comments
27.		Four African teenagers invent a urine-powered generator (makerfaireafrica.com)
		40 points by AlexanderHektor 5 hours ago \| 6 comments
28.		Steam for Linux Beta Now Available (steampowered.com)
		261 points by mukyu 19 hours ago \| 80 comments
29.		Meet the new Light Table (chris-granger.com)
		342 points by bergie 23 hours ago \| 95 comments
30.		The perfect email (davidgcohen.com)
		149 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago \| 39 comments
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