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1. Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 (stanford.edu)
102 points by michael_dorfman on Oct 30, 2008 | 71 comments
2. Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning
93 points by chinup on Oct 30, 2008 | 45 comments
3. Ask YC: How to survive grad school?
86 points by grad_student_ on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments
4. A new approach to the sign up form (huffduffer.com)
81 points by madmotive on Oct 30, 2008 | 46 comments
5. New Ubuntu is out (ubuntu.com)
80 points by bandris on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments
6. How to make money with free software... (pythonide.blogspot.com)
75 points by prakash on Oct 30, 2008 | 12 comments
7. How We Prepare a Demo (particletree.com)
71 points by mqt on Oct 30, 2008 | 2 comments
8. Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
48 points by gruseom on Oct 30, 2008 | 59 comments
9. Why startup pitches fail (venturehacks.com)
46 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 30, 2008 | 1 comment
10. Apple Not Accepting Opera Mini on iPhone (osnews.com)
45 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 | 61 comments
11. Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public (techcrunch.com)
44 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 | 22 comments
12. The Economist endorses Barack Obama (economist.com)
42 points by jyothi on Oct 30, 2008 | 62 comments
13. 23andMe named Invention of the Year by Time (time.com)
36 points by russ on Oct 30, 2008 | 20 comments
14. Official Google Blog: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud (googleblog.blogspot.com)
32 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 | 7 comments
15. US appeals court rejects business method patents (reuters.com)
31 points by lnguyen on Oct 30, 2008 | 7 comments
16. If you applied this cycle and haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder
19 points by pg on Oct 30, 2008 | 9 comments
17. Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki (wikiring.com)
23 points by nickb on Oct 30, 2008 | 6 comments
18. Stumbled upon this XLS of all the hacker news user names and what they do...WTF (breckyunits.com)
20 points by matthewer on Oct 30, 2008 | 14 comments
19. Accept credit card payments from your iPhone (arstechnica.com)
19 points by ashishk on Oct 30, 2008 | 2 comments
20. Giving Up for Effectiveness (heroku.com)
19 points by ph0rque on Oct 30, 2008 | 4 comments
21. World's Best Rails Rails Hiring Process (learnhub.com)
22 points by jpg on Oct 30, 2008 | 31 comments
22. Ask YC: Who is Nickb and what is his start-up?
19 points by demandred on Oct 30, 2008 | 16 comments
23. Great Business idea #2: Managed MySQL or PostgreSQL on SliceHost and EC2 (stakeventures.com)
16 points by pelle on Oct 30, 2008 | 6 comments
24. How to setup lighter, faster & minimal Ubuntu (ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com)
16 points by known on Oct 30, 2008 | 6 comments
25. How Yahoo Blew It (Story behind Inktomi and Overture acquisitions, Project Panama) (wired.com)
16 points by lemonysnicket on Oct 30, 2008 | 3 comments
26. John Doerr: Ten Ways Not To Lose Your Shirt (alleyinsider.com)
15 points by lanceweatherby on Oct 30, 2008 | 3 comments
27. Official Google Blog: A picture of a thousand words? (googleblog.blogspot.com)
14 points by qhoxie on Oct 30, 2008 | 4 comments
28. The Thrush (raganwald) (github.com/raganwald)
14 points by bdfh42 on Oct 30, 2008 | 2 comments
29. The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID (sitepoint.com)
14 points by nickb on Oct 30, 2008 | 5 comments
30. Come out and get accepted or rejected with us: irc.gnome.org #candyisdandy
13 points by mcu on Oct 30, 2008 | 13 comments

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