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1.		Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 (stanford.edu)
		102 points by michael_dorfman on Oct 30, 2008 \| 71 comments
2.		Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning
		93 points by chinup on Oct 30, 2008 \| 45 comments
3.		Ask YC: How to survive grad school?
		86 points by grad_student_ on Oct 30, 2008 \| 50 comments
4.		A new approach to the sign up form (huffduffer.com)
		81 points by madmotive on Oct 30, 2008 \| 46 comments
5.		New Ubuntu is out (ubuntu.com)
		80 points by bandris on Oct 30, 2008 \| 50 comments
6.		How to make money with free software... (pythonide.blogspot.com)
		75 points by prakash on Oct 30, 2008 \| 12 comments
7.		How We Prepare a Demo (particletree.com)
		71 points by mqt on Oct 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
8.		Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
		48 points by gruseom on Oct 30, 2008 \| 59 comments
9.		Why startup pitches fail (venturehacks.com)
		46 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 30, 2008 \| 1 comment
10.		Apple Not Accepting Opera Mini on iPhone (osnews.com)
		45 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 \| 61 comments
11.		Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 \| 22 comments
12.		The Economist endorses Barack Obama (economist.com)
		42 points by jyothi on Oct 30, 2008 \| 62 comments
13.		23andMe named Invention of the Year by Time (time.com)
		36 points by russ on Oct 30, 2008 \| 20 comments
14.		Official Google Blog: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		32 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 \| 7 comments
15.		US appeals court rejects business method patents (reuters.com)
		31 points by lnguyen on Oct 30, 2008 \| 7 comments
16.		If you applied this cycle and haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder
		19 points by pg on Oct 30, 2008 \| 9 comments
17.		Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki (wikiring.com)
		23 points by nickb on Oct 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
18.		Stumbled upon this XLS of all the hacker news user names and what they do...WTF (breckyunits.com)
		20 points by matthewer on Oct 30, 2008 \| 14 comments
19.		Accept credit card payments from your iPhone (arstechnica.com)
		19 points by ashishk on Oct 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
20.		Giving Up for Effectiveness (heroku.com)
		19 points by ph0rque on Oct 30, 2008 \| 4 comments
21.		World's Best Rails Rails Hiring Process (learnhub.com)
		22 points by jpg on Oct 30, 2008 \| 31 comments
22.		Ask YC: Who is Nickb and what is his start-up?
		19 points by demandred on Oct 30, 2008 \| 16 comments
23.		Great Business idea #2: Managed MySQL or PostgreSQL on SliceHost and EC2 (stakeventures.com)
		16 points by pelle on Oct 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
24.		How to setup lighter, faster & minimal Ubuntu (ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com)
		16 points by known on Oct 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
25.		How Yahoo Blew It (Story behind Inktomi and Overture acquisitions, Project Panama) (wired.com)
		16 points by lemonysnicket on Oct 30, 2008 \| 3 comments
26.		John Doerr: Ten Ways Not To Lose Your Shirt (alleyinsider.com)
		15 points by lanceweatherby on Oct 30, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		The Thrush (raganwald) (github.com/raganwald)
		14 points by bdfh42 on Oct 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
28.		Official Google Blog: A picture of a thousand words? (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		14 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 \| 4 comments
29.		The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID (sitepoint.com)
		14 points by nickb on Oct 30, 2008 \| 5 comments
30.		Come out and get accepted or rejected with us: irc.gnome.org #candyisdandy
		13 points by mcu on Oct 30, 2008 \| 13 comments
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