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1.There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe (hanselman.com)
276 points by shawndumas on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
2.Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t). (washingtonpost.com)
223 points by ABR on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
3.Show HN: The users behind Hacker News (hnwho.com)
193 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
4. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released (popc64.blogspot.com)
191 points by th0ma5 on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
5.Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark (ibiblio.org)
176 points by octopus on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
6.Fibonacci Flim-Flam. (lhup.edu)
168 points by jamesbritt on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
7. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family (apache.org)
156 points by Garbage on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
8.Repairing a dented tuba with magnets (supermagnete.de)
151 points by mixmax on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
9.Thoughts on porting NumPy to PyPy (technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com)
150 points by johndcook on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.The Shen programming language (shenlanguage.org)
111 points by fogus on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
11.I want to solve the uploads problem (unfoldthat.com)
95 points by valyagolev on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
12.I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin (peebs.org)
92 points by nemesisj on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
13. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
13.The Invisible Side of Design (speakerdeck.com)
90 points by cwan on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
14.Time zone database has new home after lawsuit (ajc.com)
72 points by Garbage on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
15.Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go? [ext]
71 points by samirahmed on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.How much do Apple's factories cost? (asymco.com)
64 points by strandev on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
17.PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape Any Image on Your Website (wegraphics.net)
63 points by cwan on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
18.GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub (github.com/icefox)
60 points by icefox on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
19.Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com)
57 points by ColinWright on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
20.The Occupy Economy (wsj.com)
56 points by lambtron on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
21.Why Chef? (devopsanywhere.blogspot.com)
55 points by bryanwb on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
22. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
22.Haskell : polymorphism at value level, not method parameter level (chrisdone.com)
56 points by gtani on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
23.What is Wealth in America? (forbes.com)
50 points by SanjeevSharma on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
24.Tell PG: Thanks for the change to the "title" on each page [ext]
48 points by ColinWright on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
25. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Harry Porter's Relay Computer (pdx.edu)
43 points by 0x12 on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
26.Fix TCP slow-start without a kernel patch (for faster page load times) (pp.se)
43 points by ck2 on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Head To Head: Siri Vs. Google Voice Actions (searchengineland.com)
42 points by dell9000 on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Occupying My Mind (avc.com)
42 points by mtviewdave on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
29.A regular expression matcher in 19 lines of Clojure (plus.google.com)
40 points by decklin on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Siri, Quora, And The Future Of Search (techcrunch.com)
39 points by davidedicillo on Oct 16, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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