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1. Joey Hess' minimal approach (usesthis.com)
269 points by mastar2323 on Oct 31, 2012 | 120 comments
2. Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves (technologyreview.com)
229 points by ColinWright on Oct 31, 2012 | 72 comments
3. My entire entrepreneurship story in 10 minutes (justinkan.com)
216 points by mjdipietro on Oct 31, 2012 | 32 comments
4. The Next 1,000 Start-Ups (braintreepayments.com)
210 points by daniel_levine on Oct 31, 2012 | 79 comments
5. C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python (fendrich.se)
201 points by daivd on Oct 31, 2012 | 164 comments
6. 12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research (discovermagazine.com)
164 points by ColinWright on Oct 31, 2012 | 12 comments
7. The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design (folyo.me)
154 points by sgdesign on Oct 31, 2012 | 35 comments
8. Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer (circular.io)
160 points by julien_c on Oct 31, 2012 | 104 comments
9. Show HN: Introducting C+ (github.com/orangeduck)
148 points by orangeduck on Oct 31, 2012 | 47 comments
10. Show HN: Python Tools for Visual Studio (codeplex.com)
139 points by smortaz on Oct 31, 2012 | 54 comments
11. 9 Gigapixel Image of the Milky Way (eso.org)
129 points by onosendai on Oct 31, 2012 | 32 comments
12. Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language) (guillermowinkler.com)
128 points by Kopion on Oct 31, 2012 | 58 comments
13. The Mixergy Guide to Building a Recurring Revenue Business From Scratch (hackthesystem.com)
124 points by peeplaja on Oct 31, 2012 | 51 comments
14. Trello has moved to AWS (fogcreek.com)
124 points by gecko on Oct 31, 2012 | 67 comments
15. Asus says Nexus 7 sales are close to 1 million per month (slashgear.com)
124 points by xhrpost on Oct 31, 2012 | 110 comments
16. Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly (mwotton.github.com)
115 points by hamidr on Oct 31, 2012 | 142 comments
17. Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images (inria.fr)
110 points by currywurst on Oct 31, 2012 | 31 comments
18. Fusion drive on older Macs? Yes (jollyjinx.tumblr.com)
106 points by basil on Oct 31, 2012 | 52 comments
19. The Highs and Lows of Side Projects (andrewdumont.me)
106 points by andrewdumont on Oct 31, 2012 | 32 comments
20. Gmail was down (gmail.com)
102 points by saiko-chriskun on Oct 31, 2012 | 83 comments
21. Buddhist monk's brain produces highest reported level of gamma waves (nydailynews.com)
100 points by vjanma on Oct 31, 2012 | 56 comments
22. Dropbox-as-a-Database (opalang.org)
84 points by cedrics on Oct 31, 2012 | 32 comments
23. Show HN: Freelance Hacker Network (hackerlist.net)
83 points by mekarpeles on Oct 31, 2012 | 39 comments
24. Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of (turnchannel.com)
79 points by shawnjanas on Oct 31, 2012 | 76 comments
25. Zapier (YC S12) Raises $1.2M Seed Round (techcrunch.com)
82 points by WadeF on Oct 31, 2012 | 29 comments
26. Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K Nvidia GPU Cores (anandtech.com)
78 points by sciwiz on Oct 31, 2012 | 26 comments
27. Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace? (grobmeier.de)
77 points by grobmeier on Oct 31, 2012 | 61 comments
28. Halloween Bash Profile Generator (xta.github.com)
79 points by langer on Oct 31, 2012 | 26 comments
29. Interview with Robert Houdart, author of the world's strongest chess engine (chessbase.com)
74 points by mbrubeck on Oct 31, 2012 | 11 comments
30. Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS (goodfil.ms)
77 points by geelen on Oct 31, 2012 | 16 comments

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