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1.
Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am. (nytimes.com)
95 points by kradic on Oct 17, 2008 | 58 comments
2.
Do I Look Like a CEO? (businessweek.com)
75 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 17, 2008 | 27 comments
3.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (learnyouahaskell.com)
59 points by mqt on Oct 17, 2008 | 11 comments
4.
YC Winter 2009 application is due today (Friday).
37 points by thorax on Oct 17, 2008 | 24 comments
5.
MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists - good coders code, great reuse (catonmat.net)
29 points by nreece on Oct 17, 2008 | 4 comments
6.
Arithmetic Is Hard—To Get Right (wolfram.com)
28 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 10 comments
7.
Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? (slate.com)
27 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 23 comments
8.
Paul Graham, Just Shut Your Face Already (uncov.com)
21 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 20 comments
9.
Coding Horror: Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping (codinghorror.com)
26 points by Anon84 on Oct 17, 2008 | 15 comments
10.
Ask HN: What tools and methods do you use for software testing?
24 points by anthonyrubin on Oct 17, 2008 | 26 comments
11.
"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer (dasburo.com)
23 points by psnajder on Oct 17, 2008 | 13 comments
12.
Freemium is Not a Business Model (markevanstech.com)
21 points by buckpost on Oct 17, 2008 | 33 comments
13.
Unexploded Bombs in Germany: The Lethal Legacy of World War II (spiegel.de)
21 points by ksvs on Oct 17, 2008 | 8 comments
14.
How do I lay people off? (venturehacks.com)
20 points by wheels on Oct 17, 2008 | 33 comments
15.
Alexis Ohanian at Business of Software 2008 [video] (businessofsoftware.org)
18 points by shankys on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
16.
Is Math a Young Man's Game? No (slate.com)
18 points by hhm on Oct 17, 2008 | 26 comments
17.
10 Laws of Building a Saas Company - 51 minute webcast (acrobat.com)
17 points by jkopelman on Oct 17, 2008 | 3 comments
18.
Elements of Ruby Style (pathf.com)
16 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 7 comments
19.
Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire (appleinsider.com)
16 points by echair on Oct 17, 2008 | 24 comments
20.
Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices (wired.com)
15 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 6 comments
21.
Freemium Isn’t A Business Model, It’s A Marketing And Trust Strategy (pchristensen.com)
14 points by pchristensen on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
22.
5 great things in the 2.6.27 linux kernel (computerworld.com)
14 points by nocivus on Oct 17, 2008
23.
$20 Business Plan wanted. Nice. (craigslist.org)
13 points by goofygrin on Oct 17, 2008 | 6 comments
24.
Making transistors on paper (economist.com)
12 points by davidw on Oct 17, 2008 | 5 comments
25.
10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes (docstoc.com)
12 points by psogle on Oct 17, 2008 | 4 comments
26.
An All New Rails Security Guide (railsinside.com)
12 points by brett on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
27.
Proggit challenge: Find a number N which, when Googled, yields N results (reddit.com)
11 points by iamelgringo on Oct 17, 2008 | 8 comments
28.
One year of Clojure (groups.google.com)
10 points by prakash on Oct 17, 2008
29.
Semantic Web: Making Advertising More Relevant to Consumers (readwriteweb.com)
8 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 3 comments
30.
Core i7: Your essential guide to Intel's new killer (techradar.com)
8 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 1 comment

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