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1.
Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT (ozar.me)
361 points by magsafe on Oct 27, 2012 | 283 comments
2.
Rob Pike: Go at Google (golang.org)
268 points by jbarham on Oct 27, 2012 | 235 comments
3.
A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best (arcfn.com)
254 points by pmarin on Oct 27, 2012 | 86 comments
4.
Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake (limpet.net)
246 points by mbrubeck on Oct 27, 2012 | 51 comments
5.
An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface) (marco.org)
242 points by tnorthcutt on Oct 27, 2012 | 240 comments
6.
Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application (valvesoftware.com)
214 points by cskau on Oct 27, 2012 | 44 comments
7.
AWS outage summary (amazon.com)
161 points by tch on Oct 27, 2012 | 65 comments
8.
Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal (readwrite.com)
139 points by iProject on Oct 27, 2012 | 27 comments
9.
Give A Damn (clayallsopp.com)
132 points by 10char on Oct 27, 2012 | 37 comments
10.
General Failure: How the American military rewards failure at the highest ranks (theatlantic.com)
131 points by jseliger on Oct 27, 2012 | 51 comments
11.
An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect (porkrind.org)
115 points by __david__ on Oct 27, 2012 | 26 comments
12.
Blaze: Next Generation NumPy (speakerdeck.com)
118 points by freyrs3 on Oct 27, 2012 | 28 comments
13.
SAT: Getting the lowest score possible (colinfahey.com)
109 points by solipsist on Oct 27, 2012 | 90 comments
14.
Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording (theatlantic.com)
108 points by atlantic on Oct 27, 2012 | 25 comments
15.
How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid? (techcrunch.com)
109 points by vignesh_vs_in on Oct 27, 2012 | 162 comments
16.
Sweden imports waste from European neighbors to fuel waste-to-energy program (pri.org)
106 points by awlo on Oct 27, 2012 | 22 comments
17.
Show HN: Instrumenting and visualizing JavaScript with d3.js (latentflip.github.com)
105 points by philip_roberts on Oct 27, 2012 | 22 comments
18.
$.url() - A simple, lightweight url parser for jQuery (github.com/websanova)
98 points by rduchnik on Oct 27, 2012 | 40 comments
19.
Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books (cnn.com)
98 points by pwg on Oct 27, 2012 | 55 comments
20.
Functional programming with Python (pycon.org)
97 points by Swizec on Oct 27, 2012 | 49 comments
21.
Parallella reached $750k funding goal (kickstarter.com)
94 points by skrebbel on Oct 27, 2012 | 26 comments
22.
About today's App Engine outage (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
81 points by azylman on Oct 27, 2012 | 30 comments
23.
Attack of the week: Cross-VM timing attacks (cryptographyengineering.com)
67 points by stalled on Oct 27, 2012 | 10 comments
24.
Sales of the Galaxy S III rose following the unveiling of the iPhone 5 (cnet.com)
65 points by neya on Oct 27, 2012 | 57 comments
25.
Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp Launches BlackJet, The "Uber For Private Jets" (techcrunch.com)
63 points by kloncks on Oct 27, 2012 | 23 comments
26.
Ask PG: Why is Ben Horowitz's startup school 2012 video not available?
64 points by marcamillion on Oct 27, 2012 | 20 comments
27.
Windmills Overload East Europe’s Grid, Risking Blackout (businessweek.com)
60 points by frozenport on Oct 27, 2012 | 66 comments
28.
Product fitness (muji.net)
58 points by kirtan on Oct 27, 2012 | 12 comments
29.
Does the "Entrepreneurship Subculture" prevent big ideas? (noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)
51 points by marklabedz on Oct 27, 2012 | 25 comments
30.
Kinds of Focus (andrewbadr.com)
50 points by bdr on Oct 27, 2012 | 17 comments

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