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1. Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier (amazon.com)
479 points by wave on Oct 21, 2010 | 137 comments
2. Apple deprecates Java (developer.apple.com)
386 points by tomeast on Oct 21, 2010 | 268 comments
3. After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?
379 points by exhaustedhacker on Oct 21, 2010 | 184 comments
4. The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions (businessweek.com)
285 points by petethomas on Oct 21, 2010 | 286 comments
5. The End of x86? (fernstrategy.com)
203 points by mjfern on Oct 21, 2010 | 115 comments
6. Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0 (zachholman.com)
159 points by holman on Oct 21, 2010 | 49 comments
7. Review others websites and they review yours (feedbackroulette.com)
129 points by pdx on Oct 21, 2010 | 42 comments
8. Try Arc (tryarc.org)
126 points by evanrmurphy on Oct 21, 2010 | 25 comments
9. Computing at scale, or, how Google has warped my brain (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
119 points by adambyrtek on Oct 21, 2010 | 43 comments
10. Why complex life probably evolved only once (newscientist.com)
113 points by hartror on Oct 21, 2010 | 76 comments
11. Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs (arstechnica.com)
101 points by pietrofmaggi on Oct 21, 2010 | 93 comments
12. It Gets Better: Google Employees (youtube.com)
93 points by dfield on Oct 21, 2010 | 26 comments
13. How I Snuck Into The Ivy League. And You Can Too. (crushable.com)
91 points by atestu on Oct 21, 2010 | 84 comments
14. Moon Not Only Has Water, but Lots of It (wsj.com)
88 points by charlief on Oct 21, 2010 | 58 comments
15. Ask HN: starting a career in software dev in my thirties, am I nuts?
88 points by paulnelligan on Oct 21, 2010 | 80 comments
16. Why services should offer marginal features (with apologies to 37signals) (zencoder.com)
86 points by jon_dahl on Oct 21, 2010 | 35 comments
17. Why we don't schedule deployments during off-hours (scoutapp.com)
85 points by joshuacc on Oct 21, 2010 | 54 comments
18. Jim Hugunin leaves Microsoft and IronPython (hugunin.net)
84 points by jnoller on Oct 21, 2010 | 20 comments
19. Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review (anandtech.com)
82 points by HardyLeung on Oct 21, 2010 | 35 comments
20. Graphic novel piracy on 4chan leads to massive spike in sales (geek.com)
83 points by ukdm on Oct 21, 2010 | 33 comments
21. MacRuby and the Mac App Store (rubyinside.com)
78 points by thibaut_barrere on Oct 21, 2010 | 17 comments
22. How to measure page load time with google analytics (yottaa.com)
69 points by jrosoff on Oct 21, 2010 | 16 comments
23. Calgary's new mayor: "Politics in full sentences" (theglobeandmail.com)
67 points by rfugger on Oct 21, 2010 | 19 comments
24. A Plea to Amazon: Fix Mechanical Turk (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
64 points by ananthrk on Oct 21, 2010 | 21 comments
25. MacBook Air ships without Flash (engadget.com)
62 points by jankassens on Oct 21, 2010 | 57 comments
26. "I wrote this film, and I am doing everything I can to prevent its release" (imdb.com)
62 points by fogus on Oct 21, 2010 | 12 comments
27. Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?
60 points by codedivine on Oct 21, 2010 | 52 comments
28. The language I wish Go was (stuffwithstuff.com)
59 points by dochtman on Oct 21, 2010 | 66 comments
29. Rands in Repose: How nerds and geeks parse the world (randsinrepose.com)
57 points by filament on Oct 21, 2010 | 16 comments
30. Real-time heatmap example with Javascript and HTMLCanvas (patrick-wied.at)
54 points by revorad on Oct 21, 2010 | 14 comments

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