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1. The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19 (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
311 points by paul on Oct 29, 2010 | 228 comments
2. How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers? (npr.org)
292 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 29, 2010 | 151 comments
3. For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance (theatlantic.com)
259 points by timf on Oct 29, 2010 | 226 comments
4. Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps (zdnet.com)
179 points by moxiemk1 on Oct 29, 2010 | 146 comments
5. Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this. (ryanwaggoner.com)
169 points by ryanwaggoner on Oct 29, 2010 | 62 comments
6. Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana (techcrunch.com)
168 points by Mistone on Oct 29, 2010 | 95 comments
7. Facebook Acquires Drop.io (drop.io)
151 points by whyleym on Oct 29, 2010 | 49 comments
8. The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers (marco.org)
146 points by bjplink on Oct 29, 2010 | 52 comments
9. HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
142 points by tptacek on Oct 29, 2010 | 48 comments
10. How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids (codusoperandi.com)
134 points by jayro on Oct 29, 2010 | 37 comments
11. Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care? (technologysufficientlyadvanced.blogspot....)
131 points by gloshuertos on Oct 29, 2010 | 145 comments
12. MIT Student-designed CNC mill you can build for less than $100 (makeyourbot.org)
118 points by candeira on Oct 29, 2010 | 12 comments
13. Ask HN: Anyone been acquired by Google who can talk about it?
114 points by chuhnk on Oct 29, 2010 | 29 comments
14. Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery (andyet.net)
103 points by ericflo on Oct 29, 2010 | 19 comments
15. Using the Cython Compiler to write fast Python code (behnel.de)
99 points by kqr2 on Oct 29, 2010 | 47 comments
16. mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python (yelp.com)
101 points by pretz on Oct 29, 2010 | 13 comments
17. Dev Diary: John Carmack on RAGE for iOS (bethblog.com)
94 points by turtlesoup on Oct 29, 2010 | 38 comments
18. Disneyland with the Death Penalty (wired.com)
94 points by nikcub on Oct 29, 2010 | 66 comments
19. 0.30000000000000004 (google.com)
91 points by nixy on Oct 29, 2010 | 128 comments
20. National Rail Have Killed My UK Train Times App (mocko.org.uk)
86 points by mocko on Oct 29, 2010 | 26 comments
21. Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?
84 points by mxmpawn on Oct 29, 2010 | 64 comments
22. Stack Overflow results now included in MSDN Search (stackoverflow.com)
81 points by mwsherman on Oct 29, 2010 | 13 comments
23. NoSQL Took Away The Relational Model And Gave Nothing Back (highscalability.com)
77 points by ArturSoler on Oct 29, 2010 | 89 comments
24. Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone (wired.com)
77 points by olefoo on Oct 29, 2010 | 50 comments
25. Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen) (hawkhost.com)
75 points by rryyan on Oct 29, 2010 | 23 comments
26. Paper Toss dev makes $500k per month with ads (develop-online.net)
74 points by scrrr on Oct 29, 2010 | 37 comments
27. eBay Tosses MCM to the Curb Like a Bad Sofa (stewf.tumblr.com)
72 points by karipatila on Oct 29, 2010 | 18 comments
28. Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News: Updated & Expanded (jeffmiller.github.com)
72 points by fukumoto on Oct 29, 2010 | 19 comments
29. The Fallacy Of Bimodal Returns (avc.com)
71 points by xaverius on Oct 29, 2010 | 20 comments
30. Paul Graham is right (using AVC’s data) (zachaysan.tumblr.com)
69 points by 3pt14159 on Oct 29, 2010 | 26 comments

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