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1.
Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes (greatwriting.co.uk)
219 points by aycangulez on Oct 30, 2010 | 45 comments
2.
Just fucking figure it out (scriptmag.com)
219 points by endlessvoid94 on Oct 30, 2010 | 86 comments
3.
"Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space (datenform.de)
155 points by yan on Oct 30, 2010 | 52 comments
4.
U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents (nytimes.com)
140 points by HardyLeung on Oct 30, 2010 | 36 comments
5.
Things Economists Agree On (gregmankiw.blogspot.com)
119 points by robobenjie on Oct 30, 2010 | 123 comments
6.
Github has won (jmoiron.net)
95 points by db42 on Oct 30, 2010 | 52 comments
7.
How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete (romanconcrete.com)
95 points by akkartik on Oct 30, 2010 | 35 comments
8.
Intuition has no transfer encoding (yes-no-cancel.co.uk)
93 points by martinkl on Oct 30, 2010 | 14 comments
9.
Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook (techcrunch.com)
93 points by px on Oct 30, 2010 | 29 comments
10.
GNU/Linux distro timeline (svg) (wikimedia.org)
90 points by kqr2 on Oct 30, 2010 | 17 comments
11.
Ask HN: Your Non-Glorious Startup Success
88 points by johnsto19 on Oct 30, 2010 | 15 comments
12.
Overclocking SSL (imperialviolet.org)
86 points by n-named on Oct 30, 2010 | 21 comments
13.
Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds (ciozone.com)
75 points by Mikecsi on Oct 30, 2010 | 63 comments
14.
Programming languages have to break free from the tyranny of ASCII (acm.org)
73 points by adambyrtek on Oct 30, 2010 | 116 comments
15.
Clang/LLVM using the built in assembler builds all of FreeBSD (uiuc.edu)
72 points by X-Istence on Oct 30, 2010 | 37 comments
16.
Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself (nytimes.com)
64 points by pkaler on Oct 30, 2010 | 11 comments
17.
1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google (redfin.com)
62 points by GlennKelman on Oct 30, 2010 | 33 comments
18.
Hacking an ATM: How to Make an ATM Spew out Money (technologyreview.com)
62 points by tgriesser on Oct 30, 2010 | 16 comments
19.
What I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years (fourhourworkweek.com)
61 points by da5e on Oct 30, 2010 | 28 comments
20.
VLC developer takes a stand against DRM enforcement in Apple's App Store (fsf.org)
57 points by tjr on Oct 30, 2010 | 83 comments
21.
Ask HN: Having emotional breakdown
56 points by throw999 on Oct 30, 2010 | 122 comments
22.
IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy (nytimes.com)
51 points by credo on Oct 30, 2010 | 16 comments
23.
Schneier on Security: Cargo Security (schneier.com)
49 points by stakent on Oct 30, 2010 | 19 comments
24.
Google's YouTube Founder/CEO + Google's AdMob Founder Both Step Down (wsj.com)
46 points by Scott_MacGregor on Oct 30, 2010 | 17 comments
25.
Google Homepage Circa 1997 (archive.org)
44 points by n-named on Oct 30, 2010 | 13 comments
26.
 Three Mobile-Software Rules (tbray.org)
39 points by wglb on Oct 30, 2010 | 14 comments
27.
Diaspora October Update (joindiaspora.com)
39 points by ElbertF on Oct 30, 2010 | 32 comments
28.
The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) (multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)
36 points by billswift on Oct 30, 2010 | 16 comments
29.
Pash: PowerShell open source reimplementation for Linux, Mac, & Solaris (sourceforge.net)
33 points by rayvega on Oct 30, 2010 | 15 comments
30.
Ask HN: What is so special in working for Facebook?
31 points by gsivil on Oct 30, 2010 | 33 comments

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