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61.In layman’s terms, what are the major programming languages used for? (saac.me)
7 points by OoTheNigerian on Oct 20, 2012
62.Scientist who got a Nobel Prize for finding NGF is 103 and takes it every day (wikipedia.org)
7 points by mattangriffel on Oct 20, 2012 | 3 comments
63.A Typeface Just for Dyslexics? — The Book Designer (thebookdesigner.com)
7 points by jamesbritt on Oct 20, 2012 | 2 comments
64.Urinal protocol vulnerability (xkcd.com)
7 points by ahalan on Oct 20, 2012
65.Ask HN: Any speech segmentation API's out there?
7 points by shk88 on Oct 20, 2012 | 1 comment
66.Ask HN: How do you avoid co-founder fatigue?
6 points by marketinghead on Oct 20, 2012 | 8 comments
67.Mark Zuckerberg To Speak Tomorrow At YC Startup School (techcrunch.com)
6 points by wilfra on Oct 20, 2012 | 2 comments
68.Updates from Startup School 2012 for those of us not there. (backspac.es)
6 points by SandersAK on Oct 20, 2012
69.Company creates petrol from the air (independent.co.uk)
6 points by replayzero on Oct 20, 2012
70.Ask HN: Cheapest way to process $10 credit card payments
6 points by the_cat_kittles on Oct 20, 2012 | 5 comments
71.Ask HN: Startup Disaster Recovery
5 points by bdonohue on Oct 20, 2012 | 6 comments
72.Everybody wants to be like Safari or why Apple’s browser marketshare is inflated (html5test.com)
5 points by sciwiz on Oct 20, 2012 | 1 comment
73.Startup selling itself for $800. (pagodabox.com)
5 points by mwumva on Oct 20, 2012 | 5 comments
74.U think Windows 8 has a steep learning curve? Watch a 3 yr old use it just fine (youtube.com)
5 points by Suraj-Sun on Oct 20, 2012
75.Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual (gizmodo.com)
5 points by joshfraser on Oct 20, 2012 | 1 comment
76.Security Flaws in the TSA Pre-Check System and the Boarding Pass Check System (puckinflight.wordpress.com)
5 points by 1337biz on Oct 20, 2012
77.Incident (gTar) looking for a web developer
5 points by idanb on Oct 20, 2012 | 1 comment
78.Changeset 131783 – WebKit has a native Modernizr ([at]support) (webkit.org)
5 points by cleverjake on Oct 20, 2012
79.NoobNinja: Day 1 Recap + Vision (noobninja.tumblr.com)
5 points by neon on Oct 20, 2012 | 1 comment
80.Ask PG: What is the criteria for the pre startup school dinner / reception?
4 points by juniorer on Oct 20, 2012
81.Quabel - Writing made easy. (quabel.com)
4 points by crux on Oct 20, 2012
82.Show HN: Uptyme - Monitor downtime of all your website projects in one place. (pagodabox.com)
4 points by mwumva on Oct 20, 2012
83.Mark Zuckerberg: Don't Just Start A Company, Do Something Fundamental (forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron)
4 points by tomio on Oct 20, 2012
84.Why is it Dark at Night? [video 4min] (youtube.com)
4 points by kennu on Oct 20, 2012
85.Amazon review spat: author Nicholas Nissam Taleb versus economist Herbert Gintis (amazon.com)
4 points by ChristianMarks on Oct 20, 2012
86.Show HN: Instastrm - Instagram Live Photo Stream
4 points by falseto on Oct 20, 2012 | 4 comments
87.Tractor beam built from rings of laser light (newscientist.com)
4 points by co_pl_te on Oct 20, 2012
88.The GitHub Learn Hub (learn.github.com)
4 points by FredericJ on Oct 20, 2012
89.Free MongoDB courses starting Monday the 22nd (10gen.com)
4 points by madmaze on Oct 20, 2012 | 2 comments
90.Existential Types FTW (precog.com)
4 points by fhars on Oct 20, 2012

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