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1.		Some advice from Jeff Bezos (37signals.com)
		449 points by timf on Oct 19, 2012 \| 137 comments
2.		Small (alexmaccaw.com)
		351 points by olivercameron on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
3.		XKCD-style charts with D3 (iel.fm)
		307 points by idan on Oct 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
4.		Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota (slate.com)
		291 points by paufernandez on Oct 19, 2012 \| 150 comments
5.		TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports (propublica.org)
		257 points by hornokplease on Oct 19, 2012 \| 151 comments
6.		This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU (preshing.com)
		239 points by octopus on Oct 19, 2012 \| 39 comments
7.		How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable (techdirt.com)
		196 points by mtgx on Oct 19, 2012 \| 106 comments
8.		Free Textbooks on Machine Learning (metaoptimize.com)
		179 points by pkuhad on Oct 19, 2012 \| 12 comments
9.		PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup (l8security.com)
		168 points by neilwillgettoit on Oct 19, 2012 \| 25 comments
10.		Ask HN: Learning to write good JavaScript
		163 points by rcknight on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
11.		How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days (theindustry.cc)
		153 points by drewwilson on Oct 19, 2012 \| 45 comments
12.		Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy (melanie.io)
		142 points by melanie_io on Oct 19, 2012 \| 81 comments
13.		Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview (wsj.com)
		136 points by jellyksong on Oct 19, 2012 \| 55 comments
14.		Free Online Book: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (ucl.ac.uk)
		134 points by EzGraphs on Oct 19, 2012 \| 11 comments
15.		Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler (opalrb.org)
		130 points by cap10morgan on Oct 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
16.		JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns (doctrina.org)
		123 points by bazsouthafrica on Oct 19, 2012 \| 47 comments
		rsingel on Oct 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from br... If you care about good journalism, follow the source. This is Engadget aggregating an Ars Technica story. That's fine -- there are good reasons for aggregation -- but if you are going to share on social networks, take the time to click to the original and reward the real reporting -- in this case from Dan Goodin. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/apple-removes-java-from...
18.		Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers on OS X 10.7 and up (engadget.com)
		116 points by somethingnew on Oct 19, 2012 \| 106 comments
19.		Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns? (stackoverflow.com)
		114 points by tkellogg on Oct 19, 2012 \| 68 comments
20.		Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable) (copybar.io)
		113 points by mhurwi on Oct 19, 2012 \| 58 comments
21.		Extend Twitter Bootstrap with these Bootstrap Form Helpers (vlamanna.github.com)
		96 points by vlamanna on Oct 19, 2012 \| 43 comments
22.		Tesla's First 6 Superchargers Open to Public Today (treehugger.com)
		91 points by MikeCapone on Oct 19, 2012 \| 63 comments
23.		Ideas aren't worthless (bernardi.me)
		91 points by stefanobernardi on Oct 19, 2012 \| 60 comments
24.		Hacker News London meetup was excellent (alanhollis.com)
		89 points by Alan01252 on Oct 19, 2012 \| 28 comments
		edw519 on Oct 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Some advice from Jeff Bezos If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time. This works both ways. If someone can't get more than one level below the surface and understand the details that form the whole, they’re also often wrong much of the time. Just ask any boss I've ever had.
26.		Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK (washingtonpost.com)
		86 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 19, 2012 \| 46 comments
27.		Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized (statmilk.com)
		85 points by digitalmarks on Oct 19, 2012 \| 47 comments
		meritt on Oct 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup A lovely information leak on Paypal's front-page is if you attempt to login with a banned account, and any password whatsoever, it gives you a nice error message saying that account is banned (therefore confirming the account exists, info leak #1) and also gives the current account balance (info leak #2). I know this because my account is banned. Why's my account banned? Because in 2006 I received an unsolicited phone call from somewhere in Nebraska claiming to be Paypal and informing me they needed to verify my account credentials. I played along with the obvious phishing attempt for a few minutes until they demanded the email and mailing address on my account to "verify I was the account holder". I told the woman on the other end to go fuck herself and hung up. Turns out it was Paypal and they banned me for failing account verification. Fuck Paypal.
29.		Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github (github.com/philipithomas)
		82 points by philip1209 on Oct 19, 2012 \| 84 comments
30.		Commanding your text editor (peepcode.com)
		82 points by aggarwalachal on Oct 19, 2012 \| 61 comments
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