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1. Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (telegraph.co.uk)
199 points by Flemlord on Oct 13, 2009 | 71 comments
2. A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style (andyswan.com)
164 points by icodemyownshit on Oct 13, 2009 | 26 comments
3. How I knew I was done with my company (sivers.org)
144 points by sivers on Oct 13, 2009 | 17 comments
4. Introducing Google Building Maker (googleblog.blogspot.com)
134 points by fogus on Oct 13, 2009 | 46 comments
5. Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
125 points by idlewords on Oct 13, 2009 | 114 comments
6. Damn the torpedoes (jgc.org)
115 points by jgrahamc on Oct 13, 2009 | 21 comments
7. British Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously. (spectator.co.uk)
93 points by Zarkonnen on Oct 13, 2009 | 37 comments
8. James Dyson's newest creation: the Dyson Air Multiplier (without Fan Blades) (unplggd.com)
88 points by cwan on Oct 13, 2009 | 48 comments
9. What non-geeks hear when you speak techie (newyorker.com)
86 points by petewarden on Oct 13, 2009 | 27 comments
10. Ask HN: Tell me why a room-and-board-and-bandwidth incubator is a stupid idea
83 points by Vivtek on Oct 13, 2009 | 81 comments
11. Why are Facebook, Digg and Twitter So Hard To Scale? (highscalability.com)
84 points by yarapavan on Oct 13, 2009 | 49 comments
12. Octopart releases free API for developers (octopart.com)
73 points by andres on Oct 13, 2009 | 15 comments
13. App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well] (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
65 points by skant on Oct 13, 2009 | 26 comments
14. Plan to write big software - and you have already lost (olabini.com)
63 points by bensummers on Oct 13, 2009 | 49 comments
15. Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive (textfiles.com)
58 points by dlnovell on Oct 13, 2009 | 26 comments
16. Release Late, Release Rarely (2006) (aaronsw.com)
55 points by alexandros on Oct 13, 2009 | 32 comments
17. And now, some smoking guns (or “part two of angels that charge”) (calacanis.com)
54 points by malvosenior on Oct 13, 2009 | 32 comments
18. A Simple Survival Guide for your Inner Child (dotgnu.info)
53 points by spo0nman on Oct 13, 2009 | 16 comments
19. Final Startup School Speaker List (Evan and Biz now coming) (startupschool.org)
48 points by pg on Oct 13, 2009 | 18 comments
20. There’s nowhere to hide if your name trends on Twitter. Is there, Trafigura? (techcrunch.com)
45 points by alexandros on Oct 13, 2009 | 29 comments
21. Experimenting with a Neural Network-based Poker Bot (mattmazur.com)
39 points by matt1 on Oct 13, 2009 | 25 comments
22. James Randi: The King of Debunking (sfweekly.com)
38 points by adamhowell on Oct 13, 2009 | 5 comments
23. Dreamhost is down. All of it. (dreamhoststatus.com)
33 points by tlrobinson on Oct 13, 2009 | 33 comments
24. Gmail Labs: Got the wrong Bob? (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
32 points by raghus on Oct 13, 2009 | 14 comments
25. Tell HN: Atlassian now offers $10 licenses for most products. (for small teams) (atlassian.com)
31 points by Timothee on Oct 13, 2009 | 19 comments
26. Wikipedia In Your Pocket for $99 (thewikireader.com)
29 points by edw519 on Oct 13, 2009 | 29 comments
27. Nuclear Plants Cautiously Phase Out Dial-Up Modems (wired.com)
28 points by jwb119 on Oct 13, 2009 | 13 comments
28. Grand Central Dispatch internals and FreeBSD port [pdf] (freebsd.org)
28 points by wmf on Oct 13, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists (powazek.com)
28 points by blasdel on Oct 13, 2009 | 16 comments
30. Chicago HN'ers: I made an iPhone/Android version of Metra's train schedules (jcs.org)
28 points by there on Oct 13, 2009 | 43 comments

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