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1.Signs that you are a bad programmer (yacoset.com)
450 points by okal on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 168 comments [ext]
2.Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years (fogus.me)
284 points by jashkenas on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
3.Google AI Challenge 2011 (aichallenge.org)
275 points by philf on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking (michaelgeist.ca)
215 points by mef on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
5.Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For (giftrocket.com)
207 points by kapilkale on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
6.Lytro cameras are ready for preorder. (lytro.com)
207 points by sahillavingia on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
7. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Android 4.0 SDK Now Available (android.com)
182 points by Toddward on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
8.How does the iPhone 4S camera stack up against other cameras? (campl.us)
171 points by brackin on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps (troyhunt.com)
168 points by troyhunt on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
10. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.Unofficial Google Advanced Search (jwebnet.net)
161 points by 0x12 on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
11.Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World (apple.com)
153 points by adeelarshad82 on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
12.Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar (rememberthemilk.com)
150 points by hopeless on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
13. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
13.Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search (google.com)
144 points by suivix on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
14.Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal" (getsmokesignal.com)
143 points by mtgentry on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
15.How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin (bueno.org)
137 points by aristus on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.We Can All Become Job Creators (nytimes.com)
136 points by kennyma on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
17.Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Ice Cream Sandwich (thisismynext.com)
130 points by turing on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
18.IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS (apple.com)
129 points by dchest on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
19. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole? (globalpost.com)
123 points by haasted on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
20.Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception (forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin)
118 points by jkuria on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
21.Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars (eff.org)
111 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
22.From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms (springwise.com)
108 points by bond on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
23.Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million (techcrunch.com)
96 points by ssclafani on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
24.Go Ahead, Sell My Data (kevinjcurtin.com)
91 points by granfalloon on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
25. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
25.Stanford on-line Data Mining Courses ($10k for a certificate) (stanford.edu)
90 points by zeratul on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus (cnet.com)
86 points by AhtiK on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
27.Andrew Ng's Classroom Lectures for ML (171.64.93.201)
82 points by dlo on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.How to create a (fictional) language in one day (sicher.org)
81 points by sicher on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days (plus.google.com)
79 points by patrickaljord on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
30.Work has started on Ruby 2.0 (github.com/ruby)
80 points by ben_hall on Oct 19, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
31. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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