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1.Billion laughs (wikipedia.org)
276 points by khet on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
2.Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned. (sultansolutions.com)
201 points by jjkmk on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
3.Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement (torrentfreak.com)
161 points by nsns on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.The Django Book is getting updated
158 points by tangue on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
5.Single page apps in depth (new free book) (singlepageappbook.com)
151 points by EzGraphs on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
6.Watch YC Startup School 2012 Live (startupschool.org)
146 points by dmor on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
7. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
7.FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake [ext]
136 points by abhishekdelta on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
8.SiteChat: a postmortem. Or, the rise and fall of a society. (burakkanber.com)
120 points by bkanber on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
9.Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7 (phoronix.com)
121 points by onosendai on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Why things fail (wired.com)
114 points by sbierwagen on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
11.Confusing Crypto Blobs (daeken.com)
102 points by daeken on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
12.Pastry: A distributed hash table in Go (secondbit.org)
97 points by paddyforan on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
13. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
13.A Private Bus Company Debuts in Detroit (popularmechanics.com)
93 points by kshatrea on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
14.Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy (archlinux.me)
90 points by googletron on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
15.I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets (simplexify.net)
87 points by olalonde on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
16. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
16.Who is DDOSing GitHub and why? [ext]
86 points by pootch on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
17.New Arduino released: the 32bit Due (wired.com)
81 points by zaaaaz on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
18.Texter: Drawing with text using JavaScript and Canvas (tholman.com)
77 points by tholman on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
19. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
19.Uiji.js is jQuery in reverse (aakilfernandes.com)
71 points by aakilfernandes on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
20.Drowning Good Ideas with Bloat. The tale of pkg.m4. (tirania.org)
51 points by nkurz on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
21. In origin-of-life experiment, cooperative molecules win out (arstechnica.com)
50 points by co_pl_te on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
22. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
22.Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of Kim Dotcom (wired.com)
50 points by rkudeshi on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
23.Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to plain C (kpn.nl)
48 points by flexterra on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
24.Freemium Regret on the App Store (noisytyping.com)
41 points by kranner on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
25. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Computer Generated Math Paper makes it into Peer Reviewed Journal (marginalrevolution.com)
41 points by jhull on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
26.Philip Roth: An Open Letter to Wikipedia (newyorker.com)
40 points by ezequiel-garzon on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: I travelled cross-country to Startup School only using YC apps (backspac.es)
38 points by zmitri on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
28.French tax on startups (flirtatiouslabs.com)
37 points by VSerge on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
29.Meet the man who’s beating Airbnb in Europe (gigaom.com)
36 points by iProject on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
30.Is a glossy or matte LCD screen better for long coding sessions? (stackoverflow.com)
35 points by Charles__L on Oct 20, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
31. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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