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Stories from October 3, 2011
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1. The State of the Art is Terrible (zackarymorris.tumblr.com)
462 points by zackmorris on Oct 3, 2011 | 228 comments
2. FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post (feefighters.com)
455 points by LiveTheDream on Oct 3, 2011 | 78 comments
3. Homemade GPS Receiver (demon.co.uk)
329 points by samlittlewood on Oct 3, 2011 | 13 comments
4. An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe (handcraft.com)
292 points by primigenus on Oct 3, 2011 | 94 comments
5. Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro (railscasts.com)
233 points by illdave on Oct 3, 2011 | 61 comments
6. I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help (reddit.com)
227 points by pagliara on Oct 3, 2011 | 74 comments
7. Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage' (techdirt.com)
220 points by profitbaron on Oct 3, 2011 | 94 comments
8. Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server (github.com/glenjamin)
194 points by dchest on Oct 3, 2011 | 118 comments
9. Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan (torrentfreak.com)
192 points by nextparadigms on Oct 3, 2011 | 30 comments
10. How to get into Y Combinator (samaltman.com)
182 points by sama on Oct 3, 2011 | 53 comments
11. Adobe acquires Typekit (typekit.com)
179 points by jcsalterego on Oct 3, 2011 | 35 comments
12. Is Haskell the Cure? (mathias-biilmann.net)
175 points by bobfunk on Oct 3, 2011 | 89 comments
13. When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices (arstechnica.com)
163 points by llambda on Oct 3, 2011 | 86 comments
14. Node.js cures cancer (brianbeck.com)
156 points by kfalter on Oct 3, 2011 | 89 comments
15. Goodbye to the Yakuza (theatlanticwire.com)
148 points by genieyclo on Oct 3, 2011 | 51 comments
16. I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA
132 points by kberger on Oct 3, 2011 | 66 comments
17. Diggnation to End in December (nytimes.com)
131 points by ssclafani on Oct 3, 2011 | 38 comments
18. Scala on Heroku (heroku.com)
126 points by adamwiggins on Oct 3, 2011 | 20 comments
19. Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap) (nitobi.com)
121 points by kgutteridge on Oct 3, 2011 | 18 comments
20. How to Procrastinate and still get things done (chronicle.com)
120 points by saroz on Oct 3, 2011 | 24 comments
21. Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read (jacquesmattheij.com)
117 points by ColinWright on Oct 3, 2011 | 113 comments
22. Meeting People (hangger.com)
115 points by ziadbc on Oct 3, 2011 | 36 comments
23. What it costs to live in Japan (bemmu.posterous.com)
112 points by bemmu on Oct 3, 2011 | 70 comments
24. The Fans Are All Right (blog.pinboard.in)
109 points by phil on Oct 3, 2011 | 16 comments
25. Git-dude: desktop notifications for git (github.com/sickill)
96 points by bmaeser on Oct 3, 2011 | 7 comments
26. Oracle on why you shouldn't use NOSQL (PDF) (docs.google.com)
95 points by omaranto on Oct 3, 2011 | 98 comments
27. Sprint to 'Bet the Company' on iPhone (wsj.com)
95 points by nicksergeant on Oct 3, 2011 | 99 comments
28. 25% of Yale goes to Consulting, Finance (yaledailynews.com)
94 points by jrosenblatt on Oct 3, 2011 | 76 comments
29. Dropbox is my publish button (joehewitt.com)
90 points by siglesias on Oct 3, 2011 | 66 comments
30. Patent Troll suing coffee shops, restaurants or hotels for offering Wifi (patentexaminer.org)
89 points by mikeocool on Oct 3, 2011 | 20 comments

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