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Stories from October 12, 2011
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1. I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
745 points by mannicken on Oct 12, 2011 | 325 comments
2. Google Wave and the mythical man month (rethrick.com)
398 points by michaelneale on Oct 12, 2011 | 103 comments
3. Stop asking me for my phone number (spottedsun.com)
246 points by veb on Oct 12, 2011 | 80 comments
4. Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter) (jobstractor.com)
220 points by robinwarren on Oct 12, 2011 | 63 comments
5. Why The 99% Should Protest Against Y Combinator (nickoneill.com)
191 points by biznickman on Oct 12, 2011 | 107 comments
6. Steve Yegge on Steve Yegge's Amazon Google post (plus.google.com)
185 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 12, 2011 | 43 comments
7. Siri says some weird things (thisismynext.com)
186 points by Toddward on Oct 12, 2011 | 61 comments
8. Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S (daringfireball.net)
180 points by mcobrien on Oct 12, 2011 | 141 comments
9. One heck of a bio (worrydream.com)
173 points by Hitchhiker on Oct 12, 2011 | 26 comments
10. Cringely predicts the second coming of Java (cringely.com)
169 points by keveman on Oct 12, 2011 | 129 comments
11. Google Page Speed Online (developers.google.com)
135 points by ot on Oct 12, 2011 | 15 comments
12. How My Lifestyle Business Became a Startup (faso.com)
134 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 12, 2011 | 30 comments
13. Akamai close to being acquired by Google (reuters.com)
129 points by scommab on Oct 12, 2011 | 43 comments
14. Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics (cloudant.com)
130 points by cloudant on Oct 12, 2011 | 252 comments
15. University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes (insidehighered.com)
126 points by cwan on Oct 12, 2011 | 63 comments
16. Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (techcrunch.com)
125 points by llambda on Oct 12, 2011 | 82 comments
17. Github's new look: The Code Tab (github.com/blog)
127 points by latch on Oct 12, 2011 | 23 comments
18. Siri: Apple's trojan horse (fabiandesimone.com)
121 points by fabiandesimone on Oct 12, 2011 | 44 comments
19. Coding Horror: The Gamification (codinghorror.com)
115 points by Anon84 on Oct 12, 2011 | 28 comments
20. Google not acquiring Akamai (bloomberg.com)
101 points by tatsuke95 on Oct 12, 2011 | 33 comments
21. The Spider of Doom (thedailywtf.com)
94 points by powertower on Oct 12, 2011 | 21 comments
22. PyPy: NumPy funding and status update (morepypy.blogspot.com)
92 points by kingkilr on Oct 12, 2011 | 17 comments
23. What Is Wrong About 17259 Lines Of Code? (webreflection.blogspot.com)
90 points by necrodome on Oct 12, 2011 | 20 comments
24. Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data for US Firms (econerdfood.blogspot.com)
78 points by phoyd on Oct 12, 2011 | 12 comments
25. Wolfram Alpha's Secure Password Service (wolframalpha.com)
77 points by shawndumas on Oct 12, 2011 | 37 comments
26. Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Intellectual Property' (techdirt.com)
76 points by nextparadigms on Oct 12, 2011 | 24 comments
27. 2 is a code smell (puredanger.com)
73 points by puredanger on Oct 12, 2011 | 30 comments
28. The Speaker (Or: why the iPhone's speaker is on the bottom of the phone) (dcurt.is)
69 points by chrysb on Oct 12, 2011 | 46 comments
29. Google+ gets hashtag support and real-time search (plus.google.com)
69 points by mindcrime on Oct 12, 2011 | 13 comments
30. An End to Negativity in the Tech Community (jsconf.eu)
66 points by cramforce on Oct 12, 2011 | 14 comments

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