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1. Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am. (nytimes.com)
95 points by kradic on Oct 17, 2008 | 58 comments
2. Do I Look Like a CEO? (businessweek.com)
75 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 17, 2008 | 27 comments
3. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (learnyouahaskell.com)
59 points by mqt on Oct 17, 2008 | 11 comments
4. YC Winter 2009 application is due today (Friday).
37 points by thorax on Oct 17, 2008 | 24 comments
5. MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists - good coders code, great reuse (catonmat.net)
29 points by nreece on Oct 17, 2008 | 4 comments
6. Arithmetic Is Hard—To Get Right (wolfram.com)
28 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 10 comments
7. Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? (slate.com)
27 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 23 comments
8. Paul Graham, Just Shut Your Face Already (uncov.com)
21 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 20 comments
9. Coding Horror: Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping (codinghorror.com)
26 points by Anon84 on Oct 17, 2008 | 15 comments
10. Ask HN: What tools and methods do you use for software testing?
24 points by anthonyrubin on Oct 17, 2008 | 26 comments
11. "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer (dasburo.com)
23 points by psnajder on Oct 17, 2008 | 13 comments
12. Freemium is Not a Business Model (markevanstech.com)
21 points by buckpost on Oct 17, 2008 | 33 comments
13. Unexploded Bombs in Germany: The Lethal Legacy of World War II (spiegel.de)
21 points by ksvs on Oct 17, 2008 | 8 comments
14. How do I lay people off? (venturehacks.com)
20 points by wheels on Oct 17, 2008 | 33 comments
15. Is Math a Young Man's Game? No (slate.com)
18 points by hhm on Oct 17, 2008 | 26 comments
16. Alexis Ohanian at Business of Software 2008 [video] (businessofsoftware.org)
18 points by shankys on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
17. 10 Laws of Building a Saas Company - 51 minute webcast (acrobat.com)
17 points by jkopelman on Oct 17, 2008 | 3 comments
18. Elements of Ruby Style (pathf.com)
16 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 7 comments
19. Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire (appleinsider.com)
16 points by echair on Oct 17, 2008 | 24 comments
20. Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices (wired.com)
15 points by nickb on Oct 17, 2008 | 6 comments
21. Freemium Isn’t A Business Model, It’s A Marketing And Trust Strategy (pchristensen.com)
14 points by pchristensen on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
22. 5 great things in the 2.6.27 linux kernel (computerworld.com)
14 points by nocivus on Oct 17, 2008
23. $20 Business Plan wanted. Nice. (craigslist.org)
13 points by goofygrin on Oct 17, 2008 | 6 comments
24. 10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes (docstoc.com)
12 points by psogle on Oct 17, 2008 | 4 comments
25. Making transistors on paper (economist.com)
12 points by davidw on Oct 17, 2008 | 5 comments
26. An All New Rails Security Guide (railsinside.com)
12 points by brett on Oct 17, 2008 | 2 comments
27. Proggit challenge: Find a number N which, when Googled, yields N results (reddit.com)
11 points by iamelgringo on Oct 17, 2008 | 8 comments
28. One year of Clojure (groups.google.com)
10 points by prakash on Oct 17, 2008
29. Core i7: Your essential guide to Intel's new killer (techradar.com)
8 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 1 comment
30. Semantic Web: Making Advertising More Relevant to Consumers (readwriteweb.com)
8 points by qhoxie on Oct 17, 2008 | 3 comments

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