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1. Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar (ycombinator.posterous.com)
344 points by pg on Nov 12, 2010 | 77 comments
2. Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday (techcrunch.com)
231 points by obilgic on Nov 12, 2010 | 207 comments
3. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (fanfiction.net)
223 points by robertk on Nov 12, 2010 | 87 comments
4. Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)
215 points by hornokplease on Nov 12, 2010 | 35 comments
5. Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X (apple.com)
200 points by cstuder on Nov 12, 2010 | 98 comments
6. How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses (techcrunch.com)
199 points by siddhant on Nov 12, 2010 | 38 comments
7. The one true REST explanation (martinfowler.com)
194 points by jipumarino on Nov 12, 2010 | 47 comments
8. Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook (techcrunch.com)
191 points by tlack on Nov 12, 2010 | 145 comments
9. Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh (code.google.com)
187 points by jhrobert on Nov 12, 2010 | 93 comments
10. Why Google can’t build Instagram (scobleizer.com)
137 points by edanm on Nov 12, 2010 | 47 comments
11. I broke textCAPTCHA with Python (textcaptchabreaker.appspot.com)
135 points by Xk on Nov 12, 2010 | 54 comments
12. Multi-tabling poker player plays 120 tables at a time, verified human (twoplustwo.com)
124 points by LiveTheDream on Nov 12, 2010 | 32 comments
13. Breakfast is Overrated (dilbert.com)
117 points by jeff18 on Nov 12, 2010 | 86 comments
14. Modern Perl, the book, is Available. (modernperlbooks.com)
111 points by dtby on Nov 12, 2010 | 15 comments
15. Google Bowls a Googly - Possible invalidation of Oracle's patents (computerworlduk.com)
108 points by bluesmoon on Nov 12, 2010 | 32 comments
16. JQuery 1.4.4 Released (jquery.com)
98 points by vladocar on Nov 12, 2010 | 16 comments
17. The Instapaper Default.png dilemma (marco.org)
84 points by mattparcher on Nov 12, 2010 | 29 comments
18. The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions (norvig.com)
83 points by albertcardona on Nov 12, 2010 | 36 comments
19. Robot wars break out on poker sites (theregister.co.uk)
83 points by mootothemax on Nov 12, 2010 | 75 comments
20. A VC: Storm Clouds (avc.com)
76 points by bjonathan on Nov 12, 2010 | 32 comments
21. Is genius simply the product of hard work? (wsj.com)
76 points by grellas on Nov 12, 2010 | 51 comments
22. Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years (dcs-media.com)
74 points by fogus on Nov 12, 2010 | 13 comments
23. Creating a Lisp Executable (stackoverflow.com)
73 points by alrex021 on Nov 12, 2010 | 20 comments
24. To code quickly, you must quit coding (whattofix.com)
68 points by DanielBMarkham on Nov 12, 2010 | 34 comments
25. Resurrecting a Village by Buying Up Main Street (nytimes.com)
59 points by davi on Nov 12, 2010 | 13 comments
26. Paper prototyping kit. (uxpin.com)
56 points by Hates_ on Nov 12, 2010 | 16 comments
27. Are Entrepreneurs Pirates? 4min Test for HN by Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely (qualtrics.com)
55 points by siglesias on Nov 12, 2010 | 69 comments
28. Pencil on Firefox (evolus.vn)
53 points by donaq on Nov 12, 2010 | 6 comments
29. Developing When Your Computer is too Fast (dustin.github.com)
52 points by gsteph22 on Nov 12, 2010 | 31 comments
30. Hiring Great Developers: The Pre-Screening (small-improvements.com)
51 points by pufuwozu on Nov 12, 2010 | 46 comments

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