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1.		Some advice from Jeff Bezos (37signals.com)
		449 points by timf on Oct 19, 2012 \| 137 comments
2.		Small (alexmaccaw.com)
		351 points by olivercameron on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
3.		XKCD-style charts with D3 (iel.fm)
		307 points by idan on Oct 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
4.		Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota (slate.com)
		291 points by paufernandez on Oct 19, 2012 \| 150 comments
5.		TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports (propublica.org)
		257 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2012 \| 151 comments
6.		This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU (preshing.com)
		239 points by octopus on Oct 19, 2012 \| 39 comments
7.		How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable (techdirt.com)
		196 points by mtgx on Oct 19, 2012 \| 106 comments
8.		Free Textbooks on Machine Learning (metaoptimize.com)
		179 points by pkuhad on Oct 19, 2012 \| 12 comments
9.		PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup (l8security.com)
		168 points by neilwillgettoit on Oct 19, 2012 \| 25 comments
10.		Ask HN: Learning to write good JavaScript
		163 points by rcknight on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
11.		How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days (theindustry.cc)
		153 points by drewwilson on Oct 19, 2012 \| 45 comments
12.		Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy (melanie.io)
		142 points by melanie_io on Oct 19, 2012 \| 81 comments
13.		Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview (wsj.com)
		136 points by jellyksong on Oct 19, 2012 \| 55 comments
14.		Free Online Book: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (ucl.ac.uk)
		134 points by EzGraphs on Oct 19, 2012 \| 11 comments
15.		Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler (opalrb.org)
		130 points by cap10morgan on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
16.		JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns (doctrina.org)
		123 points by bazsouthafrica on Oct 19, 2012 \| 47 comments
17.		Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers on OS X 10.7 and up (engadget.com)
		116 points by somethingnew on Oct 19, 2012 \| 106 comments
18.		Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns? (stackoverflow.com)
		114 points by tkellogg on Oct 19, 2012 \| 68 comments
19.		Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable) (copybar.io)
		113 points by mhurwi on Oct 19, 2012 \| 58 comments
20.		Extend Twitter Bootstrap with these Bootstrap Form Helpers (vlamanna.github.com)
		96 points by vlamanna on Oct 19, 2012 \| 43 comments
21.		Tesla's First 6 Superchargers Open to Public Today (treehugger.com)
		91 points by MikeCapone on Oct 19, 2012 \| 63 comments
22.		Ideas aren't worthless (bernardi.me)
		91 points by stefanobernardi on Oct 19, 2012 \| 60 comments
23.		Hacker News London meetup was excellent (alanhollis.com)
		89 points by Alan01252 on Oct 19, 2012 \| 28 comments
24.		Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK (washingtonpost.com)
		86 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 19, 2012 \| 46 comments
25.		Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized (statmilk.com)
		85 points by digitalmarks on Oct 19, 2012 \| 47 comments
26.		Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github (github.com/philipithomas)
		82 points by philip1209 on Oct 19, 2012 \| 84 comments
27.		Commanding your text editor (peepcode.com)
		82 points by aggarwalachal on Oct 19, 2012 \| 61 comments
28.		One Company Dared Compete With IBM And Macintosh Computers In 1984 (singularityhub.com)
		80 points by sirteno on Oct 19, 2012 \| 21 comments
29.		Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive (acm.org)
		76 points by Anon84 on Oct 19, 2012 \| 25 comments
30.		Spammers start using short .gov URLs to trick their victims (thenextweb.com)
		69 points by derpenxyne on Oct 19, 2012 \| 36 comments
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