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2.		How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org)
		377 points by nl on Oct 4, 2010 \| 131 comments
3.		Where to submit your startup for some coverage (traindom.com)
		235 points by peeplaja on Oct 4, 2010 \| 60 comments
4.		The Unofficial HN FAQ (jacquesmattheij.com)
		230 points by jacquesm on Oct 4, 2010 \| 92 comments
5.		Where to See Silicon Valley (paulgraham.com)
		219 points by ssclafani on Oct 4, 2010 \| 162 comments
6.		Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight (newscientist.com)
		185 points by ph0rque on Oct 4, 2010 \| 49 comments
7.		What developers think when you say "Rock Star" (hirelite.com)
		181 points by nathanh on Oct 4, 2010 \| 85 comments
8.		I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday (cakesy.com)
		145 points by chime on Oct 4, 2010 \| 45 comments
9.		Sparrow - The New Mail for Mac (sparrowmailapp.com)
		129 points by Tawheed on Oct 4, 2010 \| 95 comments
10.		Secret Hacker Bookshelf (whattofix.com)
		129 points by jacquesm on Oct 4, 2010 \| 51 comments
11.		Stop lying on stage (startuplessonslearned.com)
		125 points by amirmc on Oct 4, 2010 \| 17 comments
12.		How many of you don't use Google CS Curriculum search? (code.google.com)
		117 points by darwinGod on Oct 4, 2010 \| 17 comments
13.		Ask HN: Am I making too much?
		115 points by notimportant on Oct 4, 2010 \| 103 comments
14.		Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Williams (techcrunch.com)
		114 points by aditya on Oct 4, 2010 \| 29 comments
15.		Ask HN: So what's new in the world of A.I.?
		107 points by dstein on Oct 4, 2010 \| 48 comments
		frossie on Oct 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: How Fake Money Saved Brazil "He said, 'Well, I've just been named the finance minister. You know I don’t know economics, so please come to meet me in Brasilia tomorrow,' " Bacha recalls. So, three things had to happen: 1. A politician had to admit his ignorance 2. Some bright spark technocrat somewhere had the right solution to a seemingly impossible problem. 3. The right politician asked for help from the right technocrat They're not kidding. It is a miracle.
17.		Ex-Mahalo contractors filing a class action lawsuit against Jason Calacanis (accentuateservices.com)
		94 points by MannyH on Oct 4, 2010 \| 14 comments
18.		New Official jQuery Plugins Provide Templating, Data Linking and Globalization (jquery.com)
		93 points by johns on Oct 4, 2010 \| 44 comments
19.		The Importance of Giving a Damn (in people and software) (danilocampos.com)
		90 points by danilocampos on Oct 4, 2010 \| 21 comments
20.		Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How will the future judge us? (post-gazette.com)
		87 points by edw519 on Oct 4, 2010 \| 203 comments
21.		The Clean Coder: The Craftsman 62, The Dark Path. (thecleancoder.blogspot.com)
		85 points by puredanger on Oct 4, 2010 \| 51 comments
22.		Java as we know it is over. Time to fork? (gregluck.com)
		83 points by auxbuss on Oct 4, 2010 \| 60 comments
23.		Spades and Men (lib.ru)
		78 points by wallflower on Oct 4, 2010 \| 24 comments
24.		The Lean Startup Bundle (appsumo.com)
		78 points by arfrank on Oct 4, 2010 \| 30 comments
25.		ShoutKey - Temporary URL Shortener by jazzychad (shoutkey.com)
		74 points by johns on Oct 4, 2010 \| 52 comments
26.		My son is mistaking a smartphone for his mother (slate.com)
		72 points by GiraffeNecktie on Oct 4, 2010 \| 26 comments
27.		Humor on the web and how to stop it (bumblebeelabs.com)
		74 points by shalmanese on Oct 4, 2010 \| 46 comments
28.		Six Metrics Every Business Should Track (rjmetrics.com)
		72 points by robertjmoore on Oct 4, 2010 \| 1 comment
		Xurinos on Oct 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: What developers think when you say "Rock Star" Whenever I hear the phrases "rock star developer" or "code ninja", I think, "Oh, they want some young fresh-out-of-college full-of-himself developer who thinks a language named after a rock is the wave of the future." Jokes aside, those phrases raise red flags in my mind. I think maybe it is that from such an employer, I would expect to see the occasional presentation with swear words ("We're all adults, here" -- "Sure, but you act like you just left your parents' house, and with your first taste of freedom, you express your naughty self."). Ah, that is the word I am looking for: professionalism. I have a hard time taking them seriously.
		edw519 on Oct 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on wee... I am never bored. In fact, I have the opposite problem: I often have trouble enjoying things that are not on my To Do List because there are too many things on my To Do List that aren't getting done.
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