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1. Man hand-builds Lamborghini Countach, from scratch, in his own basement (carscoop.blogspot.com)
89 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2008 | 42 comments
2. John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983) (fourmilab.ch)
75 points by bigmac on Oct 31, 2008 | 17 comments
3. The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort (blogmaverick.com)
64 points by hhm on Oct 31, 2008 | 23 comments
4. Review of Intel's New X25M SSD (same one Torvalds has) in a new MacBook Pro (paulstamatiou.com)
63 points by PStamatiou on Oct 31, 2008 | 28 comments
5. Gabor is looking for a technical cofounder (gaborcselle.com)
56 points by immad on Oct 31, 2008 | 20 comments
6. RepRap: Open Source, $500 3-D Printer (And Self-Replicates) (reprap.org)
51 points by notdarkyet on Oct 31, 2008 | 25 comments
7. Things I wish I’d known when I was younger (lifehack.org)
50 points by hhm on Oct 31, 2008 | 21 comments
8. Zed follows up on the search for Matt (zedshaw.com)
42 points by astrec on Oct 31, 2008 | 33 comments
9. The $8 an hour shuttle driver behind a Nobel Prize (cnet.com)
41 points by troystribling on Oct 31, 2008 | 12 comments
10. Don MacAskill: Now is the time to build (smugmug.com)
33 points by mattjaynes on Oct 31, 2008 | 11 comments
11. Standalone Applications with CouchDB (mfdz.com)
31 points by davidw on Oct 31, 2008 | 3 comments
12. A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people. (slate.com)
29 points by fmanjoo on Oct 31, 2008 | 39 comments
13. Joel Spolsky admits he was being over-cautious all along (inc.com)
29 points by andygeers on Oct 31, 2008 | 2 comments
14. E-mail error ends up on road sign (bbc.co.uk)
29 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 31, 2008 | 12 comments
15. Happy halloween everyone (.mpg) (anybots.com)
26 points by Sam_Odio on Oct 31, 2008 | 15 comments
16. Ask YC: How come spammers are not attacking YC News?
27 points by adityakothadiya on Oct 31, 2008 | 19 comments
17. Entrepreneurs: 1; Patent Trolls: 0 (avc.com)
24 points by astrec on Oct 31, 2008 | 8 comments
18. Poll: Allow stories about the election?
23 points by pg on Oct 31, 2008 | 37 comments
19. The Call of Cthubuntu (arstechnica.com)
23 points by makimaki on Oct 31, 2008 | 4 comments
20. Jeff Atwood is trying to kill me (ifdefined.com)
22 points by bdfh42 on Oct 31, 2008 | 6 comments
21. Facebook Hemorrhaging Cash, Runs To Dubai For Money (alleyinsider.com)
22 points by jmorin007 on Oct 31, 2008 | 45 comments
22. Check how fast it takes to brute force your password (hackosis.com)
19 points by linhir on Oct 31, 2008 | 16 comments
23. SIMILE Project (simile.mit.edu)
17 points by iamwil on Oct 31, 2008 | 3 comments
24. OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind
17 points by mielles on Oct 31, 2008 | 9 comments
25. Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. (techcrunch.com)
16 points by qhoxie on Oct 31, 2008 | 15 comments
26. Ask YC: Feedback on our new app. (facebook.com)
15 points by mattmaroon on Oct 31, 2008 | 16 comments
27. I, Cringely: Azure Blues (pbs.org)
14 points by notdarkyet on Oct 31, 2008 | 5 comments
28. Virtual Heist Nets 500,000+ Bank, Credit Accounts (washingtonpost.com)
13 points by NewWorldOrder on Oct 31, 2008 | 1 comment
29. Over 80, It's Anyone's Race (wsj.com)
13 points by gcheong on Oct 31, 2008
30. Morris Worm Turning 20 (networkworld.com)
12 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2008 | 1 comment

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