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1. Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups (fogcreek.com)
93 points by mhp on Oct 23, 2008 | 48 comments
2. CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport. (nb.io)
75 points by tzury on Oct 23, 2008 | 12 comments
3. Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities (aws.typepad.com)
55 points by jeffbarr on Oct 23, 2008 | 16 comments
4. Ask HN: Need a host with some balls, offshore maybe?
55 points by needahost on Oct 23, 2008 | 50 comments
5. The Receptionist Test (The Interview before the Interview) (thedailywtf.com)
54 points by edw519 on Oct 23, 2008 | 44 comments
6. Debian's Vim maintainer switches to Emacs (upsilon.cc)
49 points by nickb on Oct 23, 2008 | 32 comments
7. The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know (codinghorror.com)
49 points by bdotdub on Oct 23, 2008 | 33 comments
8. Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up (nytimes.com)
46 points by lnguyen on Oct 23, 2008 | 1 comment
9. New York Times Running On Fumes (alleyinsider.com)
46 points by ashishk on Oct 23, 2008 | 42 comments
10. How Derek Sivers sold CD Baby for $22M without taking VC (venturevoice.com)
45 points by vv on Oct 23, 2008 | 25 comments
11. Nassim Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Economy (pbs.org)
35 points by nir on Oct 23, 2008 | 18 comments
12. GvR's Blog (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
33 points by kirubakaran on Oct 23, 2008 | 13 comments
13. Hacking the Amazon S3 SLA (daemonology.net)
33 points by cperciva on Oct 23, 2008 | 4 comments
14. Smashing the Clock (BestBuy's "location and hours do not matter" work style and an increase in productivity it caused) (msn.com)
28 points by strlen on Oct 23, 2008 | 22 comments
15. Reddit goes 'Independent,' says more deals to come (cnet.com)
25 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 23, 2008 | 8 comments
16. The Age of Big War Has Passed (dilbert.com)
24 points by andreyf on Oct 23, 2008 | 51 comments
17. JavaScript Will Save Us All (meyerweb.com)
21 points by mojombo on Oct 23, 2008 | 6 comments
18. Is Anyone Buying the Googlephone? (nytimes.com)
19 points by _5y6p on Oct 23, 2008 | 34 comments
19. Sun melting down, and where's Java? (javaworld.com)
20 points by kenver on Oct 23, 2008 | 6 comments
20. Why you're drawn to mobile development (railspikes.com)
18 points by 100k on Oct 23, 2008 | 6 comments
21. 131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best (techcrunch.com)
18 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 23, 2008
22. Sorting a million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
18 points by astrec on Oct 23, 2008 | 7 comments
23. Linked-in: the money keeps rolling in (ft.com)
17 points by razorburn on Oct 23, 2008 | 9 comments
24. Don't know what startup to do? Try this (liftlab.com)
17 points by danw on Oct 23, 2008 | 1 comment
25. Bank of America SiteKey man-in-the-middle attack demonstration (phishcops.com)
17 points by DavidSJ on Oct 23, 2008 | 9 comments
26. Beautiful Code Roundup (particletree.com)
13 points by astrec on Oct 23, 2008
27. Hedge funds turn out not to work: average fund down 17.6% for the year (nytimes.com)
13 points by pg on Oct 23, 2008 | 43 comments
28. Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com
12 points by Markets on Oct 23, 2008 | 15 comments
29. CMU computer scientist creates problem-solving algorithm (post-gazette.com)
12 points by edw519 on Oct 23, 2008 | 13 comments
30. WSGR Lawyer Strikes Gold with iPhone Apps (techflash.com)
11 points by tix4luck2 on Oct 23, 2008 | 5 comments

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