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1.BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple (simple.com)
387 points by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Nov 8, 2011 | 277 comments
2.Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers (nytimes.com)
325 points by saturdaysaint on Nov 8, 2011 | 235 comments
3.The Knife Maker (thisismadebyhand.com)
315 points by rglover on Nov 8, 2011 | 192 comments
4.Take a short break in a quiet place (amitaytweeto.com)
286 points by supercopter on Nov 8, 2011 | 77 comments
5.Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3 (nimbus.io)
271 points by gglanzani on Nov 8, 2011 | 94 comments
6.Why Is The Defense Department Snooping On My Phone? (markturner.net)
267 points by mindcrime on Nov 8, 2011 | 34 comments
7.A web video company that is most likely a hoax (ihatelawyers3.github.com)
261 points by pavel_lishin on Nov 8, 2011 | 91 comments
8.Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes (openmymind.net)
252 points by latch on Nov 8, 2011 | 37 comments
9.Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV (wired.com)
251 points by d0ne on Nov 8, 2011 | 213 comments
10.Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams (readwriteweb.com)
227 points by jzb on Nov 8, 2011 | 101 comments
11.Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C (os-blog.com)
224 points by octopus on Nov 8, 2011 | 50 comments
12.Free 5 Billion Page Web Index Now Available from Common Crawl Foundation (readwriteweb.com)
201 points by pooyak on Nov 8, 2011 | 39 comments
13.Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program (cnet.com)
191 points by cubix on Nov 8, 2011 | 113 comments
14.Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk (wekeroad.com)
178 points by ghurlman on Nov 8, 2011 | 146 comments
15.Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave Away (paidcontent.org)
162 points by rpledge on Nov 8, 2011 | 95 comments
16.How to Make Wealth (paulgraham.com)
155 points by mofeeta on Nov 8, 2011 | 70 comments
17.Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize (discovermagazine.com)
146 points by jamesbritt on Nov 8, 2011 | 37 comments
18.Python 3 implementation in Haskell (haskell.org)
143 points by marshallp on Nov 8, 2011 | 22 comments
19.Firefox 8.0 is Released (mozilla.org)
141 points by evanw on Nov 8, 2011 | 74 comments
20.Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs (trevorowens.tumblr.com)
137 points by trevor99 on Nov 8, 2011 | 91 comments
21.Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100 replies (yahoo.com)
133 points by sidwyn on Nov 8, 2011 | 80 comments
22./dev/audio (somethingemporium.com)
132 points by Ideka on Nov 8, 2011 | 38 comments
23.Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad (venturebeat.com)
118 points by pkrein on Nov 8, 2011 | 19 comments
24.Fedora 16 Released (fedoraproject.org)
113 points by Garbage on Nov 8, 2011 | 63 comments
25.Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux (azulsystems.com)
110 points by moonboots on Nov 8, 2011 | 28 comments
26.Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted (gigaom.com)
107 points by llambda on Nov 8, 2011 | 79 comments
27.Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December (zombie-storage.com)
104 points by Tsagadai on Nov 8, 2011 | 60 comments

The "Bank" in "BankSimple" was problematic for us. We're technically not a bank. We also don't want to be associated with the way people have approached banking, particularly in the US.

Sorry you're not crazy about the new name, but we're happy with it. It gives us a lot of room to grow.


I thought BankSimple was a great brand, because it tells you what it is and fits well with the current zeitgeist.

What is "BankSimple?" A way to bank that's simple. Sounds interesting! Everyone hates how complicated banking is, right? Let's go to the website to find out more.

What is "Simple?" Who knows. A website that has something to do with banking--or so I'm told--with yet another web 2.0 one-word "brand", a really uninspiring one too. Hey, I wonder what's on Reddit.

30.Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours (wired.com)
93 points by FrojoS on Nov 8, 2011 | 16 comments

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