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1.John Carmack on government (armadilloaerospace.com)
192 points by hunterjrj on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 303 comments [ext]
2.How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)
185 points by rayvega on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
3.A White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped (daringfireball.net)
160 points by ghiculescu on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
4. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.Icing PayPal: How We Did It (wepay.com)
160 points by sophmonroe on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
5.Why ReadyForZero (YC S10) Started A Company to Eliminate Credit Card Debt (readyforzero.com)
132 points by ryanmickle on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
6.How to Create a Hit Sitcom (chucklorre.com)
131 points by niyazpk on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
7. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
7.Test driven development at Transloadit (debuggable.com)
133 points by felixge on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
8.Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One (msdn.com)
126 points by pauldino on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
9.A Hidden Genius at the Apple Store (duncandavidson.com)
120 points by glhaynes on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Ask HN: What's the best way for foreigners to incorporate in the States? [ext]
110 points by tpinto on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: "Is that work?" [ext]
83 points by throwaway_burn on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
12.Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup? [ext]
80 points by raheemm on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
13. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
13.Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1 (onehub.com)
77 points by texel on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
14.Confessions of a solo founder (cleverkoala.com)
72 points by conesus on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
15.Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue (seattlepi.com)
72 points by arst on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn (colinsteele.org)
71 points by fogus on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
17.Offer HN: I'll help you learn Python [ext]
68 points by jdunck on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
18.Ask HN: I made $1.01 yesterday. What next? [ext]
69 points by AlexC04 on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
19. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
19.The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) (theamericanscholar.org)
69 points by zaveri on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
20.License to Print Money (cringely.com)
66 points by rfreytag on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
21.Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating (okcupid.com)
66 points by DeusExMachina on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
22. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Ask HN: What is (is there something) wrong with me? [ext]
61 points by throwaway9778 on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
23.Ask HN: What to do in Portland? [ext]
61 points by rgrieselhuber on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
24.Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law (npr.org)
60 points by jadence on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.Offer HN: Grab lunch with the photos team at Facebook [ext]
57 points by Sam_Odio on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
26.Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code (computerworld.com)
54 points by cshekhar on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
27.A Hacker's Story: Let me tell you just how easily I can steal your personal data (techvibes.com)
50 points by thomasyale on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
28. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.Are Google and Samsung Announcing a "Nexus Two?" (readwriteweb.com)
50 points by Garbage on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
29.Computer Scientists Make Progress on Math Puzzle (utdallas.edu)
49 points by J3L2404 on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
30.MintData Shows Real-Time Spending Trends for U.S. Cities and Merchants (mint.com)
49 points by ssclafani on Oct 28, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
31. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments

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