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1.
My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups (gabrielweinberg.com)
316 points by taylorwc on Oct 18, 2010 | 81 comments
2.
Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized (metaoptimize.com)
274 points by bravura on Oct 18, 2010 | 36 comments
3.
Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)
232 points by kung-fu-master on Oct 18, 2010 | 192 comments
4.
Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan (expressjetpilots.com)
188 points by yread on Oct 18, 2010 | 170 comments
5.
Requiem For A Roommate (steveblank.com)
185 points by aundumla on Oct 18, 2010 | 9 comments
6.
HN-Books (hn-books.com)
182 points by jacquesm on Oct 18, 2010 | 63 comments
7.
Warren Buffett: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Was $200 Billion Blunder (yahoo.com)
166 points by px on Oct 18, 2010 | 34 comments
8.
Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours (splendidbacon.com)
161 points by ljuti on Oct 18, 2010 | 115 comments
9.
Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010.
144 points by mojombo on Oct 18, 2010 | 139 comments
10.
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (apple.com)
142 points by ugh on Oct 18, 2010 | 109 comments
11.
Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released (phusion.nl)
141 points by mickeyben on Oct 18, 2010 | 4 comments
12.
Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect (seattlepi.com)
133 points by Flemlord on Oct 18, 2010 | 90 comments
13.
How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup (jasonlbaptiste.com)
136 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 18, 2010 | 26 comments
14.
Facebook Apps transmit Personal IDs and Friends' Names to Advertisers (wsj.com)
133 points by jakarta on Oct 18, 2010 | 27 comments
15.
Programming is for Stupid People (whattofix.com)
118 points by DanielBMarkham on Oct 18, 2010 | 67 comments
16.
Is Microsoft in trouble? (fernstrategy.com)
115 points by mjfern on Oct 18, 2010 | 85 comments
17.
Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983 (bell-labs.com)
112 points by ssclafani on Oct 18, 2010 | 20 comments
18.
The Square Grid - New CSS-Grid (thesquaregrid.com)
88 points by abp on Oct 18, 2010 | 31 comments
19.
Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at (desksnear.me)
88 points by pufuwozu on Oct 18, 2010 | 76 comments
20.
Redis: under the hood (pauladamsmith.com)
84 points by paulsmith on Oct 18, 2010
21.
Tldr.it - Summarizer for RSS feeds and other web pages (built in 48 hours) (tldr.it)
85 points by jeremymcanally on Oct 18, 2010 | 43 comments
22.
Redis, from the Ground Up (mjrusso.com)
83 points by mjrusso on Oct 18, 2010 | 13 comments
23.
Napping at work. A company that gets it. (transloc.com)
79 points by aspirant on Oct 18, 2010 | 35 comments
24.
Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...
76 points by ComputerGuru on Oct 18, 2010 | 36 comments
25.
Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition (lwn.net)
75 points by corbet on Oct 18, 2010 | 35 comments
26.
Stop the Signature File Insanity (nytimes.com)
73 points by illdave on Oct 18, 2010 | 67 comments
27.
Advice for YC Applicants: Better Last-Minute than Late (ycombinator.posterous.com)
65 points by pg on Oct 18, 2010 | 53 comments
28.
Eye Tracking vs. Mouse Tracking (gazehawk.com)
67 points by bkrausz on Oct 18, 2010 | 19 comments
29.
MVC, PVC and (¬M)VC (github.com/raganwald)
66 points by raganwald on Oct 18, 2010 | 18 comments
30.
10 web start-ups (all mine) ... and why they failed (pressbin.com)
64 points by jawns on Oct 18, 2010 | 23 comments

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