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1. How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products (planscope.io)
317 points by bdunn on Oct 13, 2012 | 210 comments
2. Hacking ls -l (lemis.com)
199 points by drp4929 on Oct 13, 2012 | 88 comments
3. Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery (npr.org)
166 points by iProject on Oct 13, 2012 | 78 comments
4. 0x10c (Notch's new game) (0x10c.com)
160 points by vasco on Oct 13, 2012 | 87 comments
5. More people should write (jsomers.net)
150 points by jsomers on Oct 13, 2012 | 49 comments
6. Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why? (fetzervalves.com)
150 points by jaybna on Oct 13, 2012 | 57 comments
7. Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one (bbc.co.uk)
142 points by drucken on Oct 13, 2012 | 17 comments
8. Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python (plus.google.com)
137 points by gits1225 on Oct 13, 2012 | 65 comments
9. Suicide is Cheaper (geo-geek.blogspot.com.au)
124 points by Abundnce10 on Oct 13, 2012 | 75 comments
10. Google Homepage Size Over Time (measuredmass.wordpress.com)
126 points by ISL on Oct 13, 2012 | 53 comments
11. Solving the Multicore Dilemma (flowlang.net)
102 points by tel on Oct 13, 2012 | 49 comments
12. How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World (vice.com)
101 points by robg on Oct 13, 2012 | 14 comments
13. Asshole Driven Development (scottberkun.com)
102 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 | 25 comments
14. The Three Pillars of Nokia's Strategy Have All Failed (communities-dominate.blogs.com)
101 points by wazoox on Oct 13, 2012 | 84 comments
15. Helping you select a JS MV* framework (todomvc.com)
97 points by wiradikusuma on Oct 13, 2012 | 38 comments
16. Git over FTP (github.com/resmo)
94 points by vinaykola on Oct 13, 2012 | 39 comments
17. Symbian, a post-mortem (docs.google.com)
89 points by sidcool on Oct 13, 2012 | 23 comments
18. The Marshmallow Test Revisited (washingtonpost.com)
82 points by shazad on Oct 13, 2012 | 33 comments
19. PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs (bloomberg.com)
85 points by pg on Oct 13, 2012 | 51 comments
20. AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company (semiaccurate.com)
78 points by tankenmate on Oct 13, 2012 | 41 comments
21. When Academic Disagreement Becomes Harassment and Persecution (stanford.edu)
79 points by adrianhoward on Oct 13, 2012 | 35 comments
22. Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript (jpfau.github.com)
76 points by jpfau on Oct 13, 2012 | 25 comments
23. Reasons not to buy from Amazon (stallman.org)
73 points by tchalla on Oct 13, 2012 | 77 comments
24. Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product (jayliew.com)
66 points by jayliew on Oct 13, 2012 | 9 comments
25. Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk? (stackoverflow.com)
60 points by ivoflipse on Oct 13, 2012 | 20 comments
26. What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (falkvinge.net)
60 points by zoowar on Oct 13, 2012 | 34 comments
27. In over my head. How can I work with more advanced programmers? (arstechnica.com)
59 points by chinmoy on Oct 13, 2012 | 23 comments
28. Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving (springerlink.com)
59 points by bane on Oct 13, 2012 | 8 comments
29. What the Heck Is CSS Specificity? (designshack.net)
55 points by codingthebeach on Oct 13, 2012 | 20 comments
30. Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday (eff.org)
55 points by pwg on Oct 13, 2012 | 27 comments

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