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1.
Amit Gupta needs you (amitguptaneedsyou.com)
886 points by mattangriffel on Oct 24, 2011 | 143 comments
2.
Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy (childsown.com)
536 points by latch on Oct 24, 2011 | 76 comments
3.
Jeff Atwood On Parenthood (codinghorror.com)
334 points by mootothemax on Oct 24, 2011 | 165 comments
4.
Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage (chrisharrison.net)
308 points by dholowiski on Oct 24, 2011 | 28 comments
5.
The Roots of Lisp (paulgraham.com)
296 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 24, 2011 | 56 comments
6.
Ixoth (ixoth.com)
242 points by kevinburke on Oct 24, 2011 | 43 comments
7.
John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby (stanford.edu)
234 points by bootload on Oct 24, 2011 | 9 comments
8.
What I learned from raising venture capital (gabrielweinberg.com)
211 points by danthompson on Oct 24, 2011 | 30 comments
9.
Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%) (cnn.com)
199 points by mikexstudios on Oct 24, 2011 | 186 comments
10.
Wikileaks Is Running Out Of Cash (techcrunch.com)
179 points by llambda on Oct 24, 2011 | 126 comments
11.
Economics in One Lesson (steshaw.org)
175 points by falava on Oct 24, 2011 | 86 comments
12.
Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788% (thestartuptoolkit.com)
168 points by robfitz on Oct 24, 2011 | 34 comments
13.
The Economics of Bike Lanes (economicsintelligence.com)
171 points by marbu on Oct 24, 2011 | 193 comments
14.
Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (stanford.edu)
165 points by pg on Oct 24, 2011 | 4 comments
15.
It's Never Really About Dropping Out (ihany.com)
155 points by kloncks on Oct 24, 2011 | 68 comments
16.
GoodData threatens our student startup with lawsuit (start2cloud.com)
152 points by vilda on Oct 24, 2011 | 38 comments
17.
The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes (macrumors.com)
147 points by sachitgupta on Oct 24, 2011 | 62 comments
18.
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009) (infoq.com)
132 points by jaredsohn on Oct 24, 2011 | 3 comments
19.
Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language (neverworkintheory.org)
131 points by j_baker on Oct 24, 2011 | 53 comments
20.
Badass JS is back (badassjs.com)
130 points by devongovett on Oct 24, 2011 | 5 comments
21.
Assault by GC (marcgravell.blogspot.com)
129 points by lnmx on Oct 24, 2011 | 68 comments
22.
Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity (grist.org)
125 points by ph0rque on Oct 24, 2011 | 102 comments
23.
Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing (catonmat.net)
125 points by cleverjake on Oct 24, 2011 | 28 comments
24.
I hate cut-and-paste (jacquesmattheij.com)
120 points by emwa on Oct 24, 2011 | 66 comments
25.
Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine. (github.com/krig)
120 points by krig on Oct 24, 2011 | 50 comments
26.
Slide Design for Developers (zachholman.com)
121 points by holman on Oct 24, 2011 | 16 comments
27.
John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future (stanford.edu)
115 points by protagonist_h on Oct 24, 2011 | 1 comment
28.
Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access (svpow.wordpress.com)
114 points by MikeTaylor on Oct 24, 2011 | 26 comments
29.
Proposed law allows federal government to lie about public records' existence (propublica.org)
115 points by danso on Oct 24, 2011 | 20 comments
30.
Closed access means people die (cam.ac.uk)
105 points by ivoflipse on Oct 24, 2011 | 17 comments

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