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1.Hacker News Needs Honeypots (nashcoding.com)
450 points by tansey on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
2.Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (wired.com)
419 points by there on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
3.Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet (glenelkins.com)
234 points by glenbo on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
4. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
4.Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today (wired.co.uk)
230 points by ck2 on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
5.Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
212 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
6.How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas (startupbound.com)
205 points by dberube on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
7. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
7.On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector (samsaffron.com)
183 points by sams99 on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
8. 40 Hour Work Weeks Suck (regehr.org)
184 points by wglb on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
9.Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated (geekwire.com)
183 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
10. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term? [ext]
177 points by mattmanser on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
11.Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter (slideshare.net)
146 points by koevet on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
12.Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance (stanfordalumni.org)
144 points by aroberge on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
13. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.A JavaScript H.264 decoder (github.com/mbebenita)
142 points by tnajdek on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
14.The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users (canonical.com)
132 points by rlpb on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
15.Codecademy (YC S11) Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code (techcrunch.com)
128 points by nickfrost on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
16. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 17 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
16.Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller (businessweek.com)
129 points by aab1d on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
17.Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels (daringfireball.net)
113 points by dave1619 on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
18.The iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken (iclarified.com)
106 points by zeratul on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
19. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
19.Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013 (bloomberg.com)
104 points by bane on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
20.Your FAQ could be answering 40% of support requests and save you 8 hrs/mo (uservoice.com)
101 points by rrwhite on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
21.Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering (phoronix.com)
90 points by ukdm on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
22. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites (hackaday.com)
89 points by profquail on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
23.Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye (nerdgap.com)
84 points by wyclif on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
24.Build a Simple Twilio Customer Support Line in 10 minutes (moocode.com)
81 points by moomerman on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.2D Game Art for Programmers: Part 3 (gamasutra.com)
76 points by Impossible on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
26.Ridejoy (YC S11): Make Some Dough On Your Next Roadtrip (techcrunch.com)
74 points by llambda on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
27.Brain-like, massively parallel computer made from organic molecules (extremetech.com)
74 points by mrsebastian on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
28. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
28.Do It Now (stevepavlina.com)
71 points by 16BitTons on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
29.Copyright troll Righthaven ordered to pay $120k in attorney fees (lasvegassun.com)
71 points by wayneyeager on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.Show HN: iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on (itunes.apple.com)
69 points by mmackh on Oct 28, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
31. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments

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