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1. Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic (preston-werner.com)
143 points by mojombo on Oct 27, 2008 | 23 comments
2. Pixlr - the online image editor (pixlr.com)
105 points by baltoo on Oct 27, 2008 | 48 comments
3. Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free (stanford.edu)
99 points by tortilla on Oct 27, 2008 | 30 comments
4. The Young Man's Business Model (paultyma.blogspot.com)
65 points by ntoshev on Oct 27, 2008 | 14 comments
5. Career Advice For Young Developers (davybrion.com)
62 points by nreece on Oct 27, 2008 | 29 comments
6. How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster (lbrandy.com)
57 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2008 | 13 comments
7. 6 reasons why my VC funded startup failed (reposita.org)
43 points by Tachikoma on Oct 27, 2008 | 17 comments
8. Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com (windowshop.com)
41 points by wave on Oct 27, 2008 | 28 comments
9. Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku?
41 points by wynand on Oct 27, 2008 | 49 comments
10. SEO is bullshit (contrast.ie)
40 points by danw on Oct 27, 2008 | 43 comments
11. Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" (roughtype.com)
39 points by bdfh42 on Oct 27, 2008 | 62 comments
12. Kevin Rose: Start Up During A Recession (sproutly.com)
38 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2008 | 12 comments
13. How This Bear Market Compares - Interactive Graphic (nytimes.com)
36 points by bradn on Oct 27, 2008 | 4 comments
14. Brain peaks at 39 years of age and declines thereafter (ucla.edu)
33 points by nreece on Oct 27, 2008 | 25 comments
15. A Gazillion-user Comet Server With libevent, Part 0 (aleccolocco.blogspot.com)
32 points by alecco on Oct 27, 2008 | 8 comments
16. Steve Jobs: We Still Haven't Figured Out The Living Room (alleyinsider.com)
27 points by echair on Oct 27, 2008 | 19 comments
17. John Carmack's team wins XPrize's $350,000 Lunar Lander Challenge (msn.com)
27 points by bandris on Oct 27, 2008 | 3 comments
18. Google Earth Comes To The iPhone, And It’s Awesome (techcrunch.com)
25 points by ciscoriordan on Oct 27, 2008 | 2 comments
19. ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta
25 points by pwoods on Oct 27, 2008 | 19 comments
20. Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts (politico.com)
24 points by tptacek on Oct 27, 2008 | 23 comments
21. Cher Wang, the most powerful female tech executive you've never heard of (nytimes.com)
21 points by echair on Oct 27, 2008 | 17 comments
22. Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X (arstechnica.com)
20 points by habs on Oct 27, 2008 | 1 comment
23. Fred Wilson's Survival Matrix (avc.com)
18 points by lanceweatherby on Oct 27, 2008 | 12 comments
24. OCaml kicks ass on Tim Bray's Wide Finder 2 benchmark challenge. Again. (eigenclass.org)
18 points by shadytrees on Oct 27, 2008 | 9 comments
25. Cocoa with Love: Debugging tips for Objective-C programming (cocoawithlove.com)
17 points by jcwentz on Oct 27, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Obesity and (the loss of) Pleasure (scienceblogs.com)
17 points by robg on Oct 27, 2008 | 2 comments
27. Net startups slow their metabolism (nytimes.com)
17 points by amrithk on Oct 27, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Review my side project: www.recreationparks.net (recreationparks.net)
18 points by tectonic on Oct 27, 2008 | 23 comments
29. Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs (schneier.com)
15 points by saikat on Oct 27, 2008 | 8 comments
30. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crash (iphonegames.typepad.com)
14 points by Ztrain on Oct 27, 2008 | 9 comments

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