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1. 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard (the8pen.com)
286 points by UkiahSmith on Nov 1, 2010 | 123 comments
2. Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders (lbrandy.com)
230 points by amethyst on Nov 1, 2010 | 77 comments
3. The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. (steveblank.com)
228 points by speek on Nov 1, 2010 | 61 comments
4. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)
213 points by sleight42 on Nov 1, 2010 | 85 comments
5. Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions (techdirt.com)
192 points by ssclafani on Nov 1, 2010 | 59 comments
6. How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records (kalzumeus.com)
170 points by bjplink on Nov 1, 2010 | 38 comments
7. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)
157 points by bgentry on Nov 1, 2010 | 127 comments
8. Math prof challenges granting of PhD to unqualified student in court (winnipegfreepress.com)
155 points by agconway on Nov 1, 2010 | 136 comments
9. Amazon S3 Price Reduction (aws.typepad.com)
141 points by timf on Nov 1, 2010 | 37 comments
10. Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' (bbc.co.uk)
120 points by pierrefar on Nov 1, 2010 | 137 comments
11. Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging (spiegel.de)
108 points by charlief on Nov 1, 2010 | 91 comments
12. Cheezburger Network doesn't show new hires the bathroom until they check in code (scottporad.com)
111 points by danshapiro on Nov 1, 2010 | 61 comments
13. How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) His Dot Com (domainnoob.com)
107 points by AndrewWarner on Nov 1, 2010 | 22 comments
14. 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org (digitizor.com)
101 points by dkd903 on Nov 1, 2010 | 23 comments
15. Socket.IO 0.6 released (groups.google.com)
99 points by Rauchg on Nov 1, 2010 | 9 comments
16. Build your own Startup Death Clock (asmartbear.com)
94 points by grep on Nov 1, 2010 | 14 comments
17. It’s Morning in India (nytimes.com)
93 points by jesseendahl on Nov 1, 2010 | 48 comments
18. The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had (bbc.co.uk)
90 points by timtadh on Nov 1, 2010 | 53 comments
19. Google sues feds over Microsoft-centric bidding requirement (arstechnica.com)
89 points by lotusleaf1987 on Nov 1, 2010 | 24 comments
20. Clojure at BackType (sna-projects.com)
88 points by omakase on Nov 1, 2010 | 3 comments
21. Interesting Reflections of an 18 year old Programmer (wakecodesleep.com)
88 points by OoTheNigerian on Nov 1, 2010 | 16 comments
22. In Quest for a 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox the Law (wsj.com)
83 points by J3L2404 on Nov 1, 2010 | 72 comments
23. An online dating site for ugly people - welcome to reality (theuglybugball.com)
81 points by roadnottaken on Nov 1, 2010 | 58 comments
24. Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month
78 points by il on Nov 1, 2010 | 73 comments
25. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (500hats.typepad.com)
77 points by dwynings on Nov 1, 2010 | 68 comments
26. We built this to help you launch apps for the November Startup Sprint (21times.org)
76 points by ryanwaggoner on Nov 1, 2010 | 34 comments
27. Protect Your Site with a Blackhole for Bad Bots (perishablepress.com)
75 points by ScotterC on Nov 1, 2010 | 20 comments
28. No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed (theregister.co.uk)
75 points by bensummers on Nov 1, 2010 | 76 comments
29. Google bug bounties: $500-$3133.7 for security flaws in *.google.com (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
72 points by tptacek on Nov 1, 2010 | 23 comments
30. Jeff Atwood - The Sitemap Paradox (webmasters.stackexchange.com)
64 points by tzury on Nov 1, 2010 | 18 comments

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