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1. Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone) (anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com)
451 points by Shooti on Oct 19, 2012 | 60 comments
2. Some advice from Jeff Bezos (37signals.com)
449 points by timf on Oct 19, 2012 | 137 comments
3. Small (alexmaccaw.com)
351 points by olivercameron on Oct 19, 2012 | 49 comments
4. XKCD-style charts with D3 (iel.fm)
307 points by idan on Oct 19, 2012 | 32 comments
5. Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota (slate.com)
291 points by paufernandez on Oct 19, 2012 | 150 comments
6. TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports (propublica.org)
257 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2012 | 151 comments
7. This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU (preshing.com)
239 points by octopus on Oct 19, 2012 | 39 comments
8. 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
9. Free Textbooks on Machine Learning (metaoptimize.com)
179 points by pkuhad on Oct 19, 2012 | 12 comments
10. PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup (l8security.com)
168 points by neilwillgettoit on Oct 19, 2012 | 25 comments
11. Ask HN: Learning to write good JavaScript
163 points by rcknight on Oct 19, 2012 | 49 comments
12. 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
13. Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy (melanie.io)
142 points by melanie_io on Oct 19, 2012 | 81 comments
14. Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview (wsj.com)
136 points by jellyksong on Oct 19, 2012 | 55 comments
15. Free Online Book: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (ucl.ac.uk)
134 points by EzGraphs on Oct 19, 2012 | 11 comments
16. Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler (opalrb.org)
130 points by cap10morgan on Oct 19, 2012 | 49 comments
17. JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns (doctrina.org)
123 points by bazsouthafrica on Oct 19, 2012 | 47 comments
18. 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
19. Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns? (stackoverflow.com)
114 points by tkellogg on Oct 19, 2012 | 68 comments
20. Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable) (copybar.io)
113 points by mhurwi on Oct 19, 2012 | 58 comments
21. Extend Twitter Bootstrap with these Bootstrap Form Helpers (vlamanna.github.com)
96 points by vlamanna on Oct 19, 2012 | 43 comments
22. Tesla's First 6 Superchargers Open to Public Today (treehugger.com)
91 points by MikeCapone on Oct 19, 2012 | 63 comments
23. Ideas aren't worthless (bernardi.me)
91 points by stefanobernardi on Oct 19, 2012 | 60 comments
24. Hacker News London meetup was excellent (alanhollis.com)
89 points by Alan01252 on Oct 19, 2012 | 28 comments
25. Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK (washingtonpost.com)
86 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 19, 2012 | 46 comments
26. Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized (statmilk.com)
85 points by digitalmarks on Oct 19, 2012 | 47 comments
27. Commanding your text editor (peepcode.com)
82 points by aggarwalachal on Oct 19, 2012 | 61 comments
28. 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
29. One Company Dared Compete With IBM And Macintosh Computers In 1984 (singularityhub.com)
80 points by sirteno on Oct 19, 2012 | 21 comments
30. Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive (acm.org)
76 points by Anon84 on Oct 19, 2012 | 25 comments

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