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Stories from October 8, 2010
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1. Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
620 points by needmoney on Oct 8, 2010 | 114 comments
2. Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now
306 points by rarestblog on Oct 8, 2010 | 73 comments
3. Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
237 points by jayliew on Oct 8, 2010 | 147 comments
4. Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
229 points by SomeoneAtHN on Oct 8, 2010 | 155 comments
5. Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge (greplin.com)
220 points by rwalker on Oct 8, 2010 | 156 comments
6. Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?
187 points by secos on Oct 8, 2010 | 173 comments
7. Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back (wired.com)
184 points by lotusleaf1987 on Oct 8, 2010 | 158 comments
8. So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it (hitlerhops.com)
179 points by cnlwsu on Oct 8, 2010 | 142 comments
9. Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged (jgc.org)
153 points by jgrahamc on Oct 8, 2010 | 68 comments
10. Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3 (41latitude.com)
149 points by ugh on Oct 8, 2010 | 25 comments
11. Some clients are evil and their work is toxic (hossgifford.com)
144 points by j4mie on Oct 8, 2010 | 56 comments
12. The Duct Tape Architect (cubeia.com)
134 points by Feeble on Oct 8, 2010 | 25 comments
13. AsmXml: a fast XML parser/decoder in pure x86 assembler (tibleiz.net)
132 points by gmac on Oct 8, 2010 | 46 comments
14. Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
118 points by SomeoneAtHN on Oct 8, 2010 | 80 comments
15. NIC.LY statement regarding the decision to block vb.ly (nic.ly)
99 points by glenngillen on Oct 8, 2010 | 81 comments
16. 2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo (nobelprize.org)
91 points by razin on Oct 8, 2010 | 42 comments
17. Ways Your Startup Needs To Be Getting Customers (jasonlbaptiste.com)
83 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 8, 2010 | 10 comments
18. The Power of Gratitude (jgc.org)
81 points by jgrahamc on Oct 8, 2010 | 7 comments
19. Ask HN: Help me understand online payment gateways
70 points by pcidss-clueless on Oct 8, 2010 | 27 comments
20. Goodbye to an old friend: 1-800-GOOG-411 (googleblog.blogspot.com)
70 points by fogus on Oct 8, 2010 | 52 comments
21. Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled
66 points by SomeoneAtHN on Oct 8, 2010 | 68 comments
22. In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at HP (bhorowitz.com)
64 points by jayliew on Oct 8, 2010 | 8 comments
23. Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with HTML5 (37signals.com)
55 points by jsm386 on Oct 8, 2010 | 9 comments
24. Costco - Food for a whole year - $799 Awesome (costco.com)
53 points by pitdesi on Oct 8, 2010 | 50 comments
25. Android is Google's Agent Smith (techvibes.com)
55 points by roblewis on Oct 8, 2010 | 43 comments
26. Kindle gets text-based adventure games (wired.co.uk)
53 points by pietrofmaggi on Oct 8, 2010 | 37 comments
27. MySQL price hikes (theregister.co.uk)
51 points by olefoo on Oct 8, 2010 | 34 comments
28. Who are North Korea’s 13 Twitter friends? (reviewmylife.co.uk)
49 points by nbsymr on Oct 8, 2010 | 14 comments
29. Classic: Rubber Duck debugging (ethernal.org)
49 points by jaybol on Oct 8, 2010 | 20 comments
30. Tell HN: Starting a search startup, please review our project
49 points by lkozma on Oct 8, 2010 | 35 comments

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