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1.IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior (marco.org)
568 points by JeffDClark on Oct 13, 2011 | 195 comments
2.Lights (elliegoulding.com)
567 points by citricsquid on Oct 13, 2011 | 91 comments
3.RIP, dmr (muppetlabs.com)
565 points by breadbox on Oct 13, 2011 | 21 comments
4.Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie: They said it couldn't be done, & he did it (herbsutter.com)
402 points by ColinWright on Oct 13, 2011 | 34 comments
5.Ubuntu 11.10 Released (Online Tour) (ubuntu.com)
392 points by mgunes on Oct 13, 2011 | 111 comments
6.RIP, Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C (tagxedo.com)
395 points by HardyLeung on Oct 13, 2011 | 3 comments
7.The last time I saw Steve Jobs (pluckytree.org)
390 points by stevenleeg on Oct 13, 2011 | 44 comments
8.250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and No New Code) (fennb.com)
346 points by taybenlor on Oct 13, 2011 | 73 comments
9.Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain (nytimes.com)
278 points by robg on Oct 13, 2011 | 57 comments
10.Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released (ubuntu.com)
252 points by micrypt on Oct 13, 2011 | 82 comments
11.Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser (jasonlefkowitz.net)
252 points by smacktoward on Oct 13, 2011 | 203 comments
12.Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr (pastebin.com)
246 points by noufalibrahim on Oct 13, 2011 | 31 comments
13.Dennis Ritchie (wikipedia.org)
243 points by Anon84 on Oct 13, 2011 | 1 comment
14.Tim Bray on Dennis Ritchie (tbray.org)
237 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 13, 2011 | 9 comments
15.Dennis Ritchie RIP (lwn.net)
212 points by zoowar on Oct 13, 2011 | 1 comment
16.Unix's founding fathers [2004] (economist.com)
209 points by bootload on Oct 13, 2011 | 4 comments
17.Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (boingboing.net)
206 points by ecounysis on Oct 13, 2011 | 2 comments
18.Groupon tries to recruit DHH. (gist.github.com)
192 points by sahillavingia on Oct 13, 2011 | 10 comments
19.Dmr's home page (bell-labs.com)
191 points by geoka9 on Oct 13, 2011 | 3 comments
20.USV invests in Duck Duck Go (usv.com)
190 points by twidlit on Oct 13, 2011 | 57 comments
21.How to beat the CAP theorem (nathanmarz.com)
183 points by icey on Oct 13, 2011 | 77 comments
22.I take it back. Unity is cool. (lunduke.com)
181 points by swah on Oct 13, 2011 | 86 comments
23.One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad (cnet.com)
171 points by inshane on Oct 13, 2011 | 83 comments
24.Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (1981) (plus.google.com)
163 points by xd on Oct 13, 2011 | 3 comments
25.HTML5 (plugin free) web-based terminal emulator and SSH client (github.com/liftoff)
155 points by zacharysjoden on Oct 13, 2011 | 49 comments
26.DuckDuckGo is growing (gabrielweinberg.com)
147 points by fukumoto on Oct 13, 2011 | 55 comments
27.Ritchie, Stroustrup, and Gosling interview (gotw.ca)
146 points by Hitchhiker on Oct 13, 2011 | 1 comment

There are several billion people using many billions of devices every day.

From the code in your microwave to massive computing clusters, virtually all of our software can trace its ancestry back to this man's intellectual output.

I'm eternally grateful for his life and contributions to humanity.

29.Dennis Ritchie has died (pythonmeister.blogspot.com)
135 points by pythonmeister on Oct 13, 2011 | 2 comments
30.Early Ritchie Unix Talk [ca. 1972] (bell-labs.com)
125 points by BrandonM on Oct 13, 2011 | 2 comments

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