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1.Why rebel groups love the Toyota Hilux (newsweek.com)
246 points by bron on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
2.World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything' (wsj.com)
191 points by grellas on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
3.Hacker Slide: HN front page over time (hackerslide.com)
165 points by franck on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
4. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
4.Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping (wattvision.com)
162 points by savrajsingh on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
5.Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP) (reddit.com)
153 points by Keyframe on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
6.Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010 Conference (kalzumeus.com)
142 points by patio11 on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
7. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.Every day I learn something new... and stupid. (jwz.livejournal.com)
127 points by acgourley on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
8.A crash course in how DOM events work (jupiterit.com)
126 points by JeffJenkins on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
9.StackOverflow launches chat (stackoverflow.com)
112 points by spolsky on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com? [ext]
104 points by jacquesm on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 352 comments [ext]
11.REST in peace, SOAP (pingdom.com)
97 points by mcgin on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
12.Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science (theatlantic.com)
82 points by jamesbritt on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
13. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains [ext]
78 points by oozcitak on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
14.Removing objects from video in real time (kurzweilai.net)
76 points by chaosmachine on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
15.Mobile sites. Not just mini versions of websites. Javascript in Freckle. (aculo.us)
75 points by thesethings on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
16. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Indian OS (schneier.com)
72 points by billswift on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: Tips for writing compelling web copy. [ext]
71 points by pmjoyce on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
18.Google App Engine update: performance improvements & new admin tools (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
71 points by mrud on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
19. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest coming to iPad by HTML and javascript (martinkool.com)
69 points by mrtnkl on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
20.Perpetually.com Aims to Keep Track of Politicians’ Promises (wsj.com)
72 points by jeremymims on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
21.Ask HN: Anyone else doing a non-software startup? [ext]
68 points by jeremymcanally on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange [ext]
65 points by yan on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
23.Linsched: Linux Scheduler Simulator (lkml.org)
61 points by xtacy on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
24.Why CPUs Aren't Getting Any Faster (technologyreview.com)
56 points by pietrofmaggi on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 12 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.The Tools You Really Need to Maintain Your Home (nytimes.com)
55 points by robg on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.Automatically Compressing Your Amazon S3 Images Using Yahoo’s Smush.it Service (yahoo.com)
54 points by drp on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
27.GitHub is making me lazy but I like it (hipchat.com)
53 points by powdahound on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
28. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.Giving Back to jQuery (sproutcore.com)
52 points by mickeyben on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
29.Ask HN: My co-founder and I are about to split, what to do? [ext]
50 points by startupdisaster on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
30.StarCraft AI Competition Results Announced (ucsc.edu)
50 points by phreeza on Oct 15, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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