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1.Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data (neowin.net)
141 points by lupin_sansei on Oct 12, 2009 | 75 comments
2.Sell your product with fake screenshots (groups.google.com)
141 points by jmorin007 on Oct 12, 2009 | 57 comments
3.You should feel pain when unclear (sivers.org)
123 points by sivers on Oct 12, 2009 | 25 comments
4.Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.
105 points by vips on Oct 12, 2009 | 227 comments
5.How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005) (gusmueller.com)
100 points by thinkzig on Oct 12, 2009 | 5 comments
6.Spreadsheet of all TED talks (spreadsheets.google.com)
82 points by kirubakaran on Oct 12, 2009 | 5 comments
7.Poll: Is self-posting ok?
79 points by j_baker on Oct 12, 2009 | 32 comments
8.OSX Apps To Help You Focus & Be Productive (makeuseof.com)
75 points by abraham on Oct 12, 2009 | 26 comments
9.I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA (reddit.com)
74 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 | 19 comments
10.Changing the game with μTP (bittorrent.com)
73 points by moriarty on Oct 12, 2009 | 19 comments
11.Objective-C's niche: why it survives in a world of alternatives (cocoawithlove.com)
70 points by twampss on Oct 12, 2009 | 60 comments
12.Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care (reuters.com)
69 points by azanar on Oct 12, 2009 | 26 comments
13.The Complete History of Lemmings (dmadesign.org)
69 points by gus_massa on Oct 12, 2009 | 19 comments
14.IPhone auto-rotation: out of control (bens.me.uk)
65 points by bensummers on Oct 12, 2009 | 33 comments
15.EMemcached: an Erlang implementation of Memcached (dustin.github.com)
59 points by epall on Oct 12, 2009 | 4 comments
16.Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you (steveblank.com)
57 points by bhousel on Oct 12, 2009 | 16 comments
17.Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many people thought I should quit (businessinsider.com)
55 points by Adrock on Oct 12, 2009 | 29 comments
18.MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv) (justin.tv)
49 points by huangm on Oct 12, 2009 | 10 comments
19.Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery
48 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 | 68 comments
20.Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?
44 points by moosecake on Oct 12, 2009 | 56 comments
21.Lambda Calculus (safalra.com)
45 points by jacquesm on Oct 12, 2009 | 23 comments
22.Finding Your Co-Founders (techcrunch.com)
44 points by terpua on Oct 12, 2009 | 46 comments
23.The Xanadu Dream (codinghorror.com)
42 points by bdfh42 on Oct 12, 2009 | 15 comments
24.A Canvas Experiment (tomtheisen.com)
38 points by edw519 on Oct 12, 2009 | 8 comments
25.Music Created by Learning Computer Is Impressive (singularityhub.com)
37 points by kkleiner on Oct 12, 2009 | 16 comments
26.A C++ Challenge (matasano.com)
33 points by wheels on Oct 12, 2009 | 24 comments
27.Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data (nytimes.com)
34 points by tokenadult on Oct 12, 2009 | 8 comments
28.What Poker Can Teach Us (chronicle.com)
32 points by riffer on Oct 12, 2009 | 13 comments
29.Reservella: The shadowy company behind The Pirate Bay (arstechnica.com)
31 points by baxter on Oct 12, 2009 | 4 comments
30.Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems (ddj.com)
31 points by fogus on Oct 12, 2009 | 7 comments

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