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1.		10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse (10gui.com)
		171 points by zain on Oct 12, 2009 \| 103 comments
2.		Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data (neowin.net)
		141 points by lupin_sansei on Oct 12, 2009 \| 75 comments
3.		Sell your product with fake screenshots (groups.google.com)
		141 points by jmorin007 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 57 comments
4.		You should feel pain when unclear (sivers.org)
		123 points by sivers on Oct 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
5.		Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.
		105 points by vips on Oct 12, 2009 \| 227 comments
6.		How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005) (gusmueller.com)
		100 points by thinkzig on Oct 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
7.		Spreadsheet of all TED talks (spreadsheets.google.com)
		82 points by kirubakaran on Oct 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
8.		Poll: Is self-posting ok?
		79 points by j_baker on Oct 12, 2009 \| 32 comments
9.		OSX Apps To Help You Focus & Be Productive (makeuseof.com)
		75 points by abraham on Oct 12, 2009 \| 26 comments
10.		I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA (reddit.com)
		74 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
11.		Changing the game with μTP (bittorrent.com)
		73 points by moriarty on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Objective-C's niche: why it survives in a world of alternatives (cocoawithlove.com)
		70 points by twampss on Oct 12, 2009 \| 60 comments
13.		The Complete History of Lemmings (dmadesign.org)
		69 points by gus_massa on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care (reuters.com)
		69 points by azanar on Oct 12, 2009 \| 26 comments
15.		IPhone auto-rotation: out of control (bens.me.uk)
		65 points by bensummers on Oct 12, 2009 \| 33 comments
16.		EMemcached: an Erlang implementation of Memcached (dustin.github.com)
		59 points by epall on Oct 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
17.		Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you (steveblank.com)
		57 points by bhousel on Oct 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
		breck on Oct 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many peop... Remember the good old days when the internet was text and it took 3 minutes to read an article versus 30 minutes to watch it? Can someone link to a transcript?
19.		Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many people thought I should quit (businessinsider.com)
		55 points by Adrock on Oct 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
20.		MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv) (justin.tv)
		49 points by huangm on Oct 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
		zackattack on Oct 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery For many years, jamba juice was running a promotion: buy a $25 gift card, get a free jamba juice. So one day I bought a gift card, got my free razmatazz, and was about to head out on my way when I doubled back. Me: "I'd like another $25 gift card please." Cashier: "That will be $25. What is your free smoothie?" Me: "Peach pleasure." And then I would pay with the previously purchased gift card, creating an infinite loop with a sunk cost of $25. I was only once refused. I netted at least 50 jamba juices for me and friends..I hope to incorporate this into a screenplay some day.
22.		Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery
		48 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 \| 68 comments
23.		Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?
		44 points by moosecake on Oct 12, 2009 \| 56 comments
24.		Lambda Calculus (safalra.com)
		45 points by jacquesm on Oct 12, 2009 \| 23 comments
25.		Finding Your Co-Founders (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by terpua on Oct 12, 2009 \| 46 comments
		dbul on Oct 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: You should feel pain when unclear For the email situation, why wouldn't you just send it out to 100 customers to get a sample of confusion? Reply to the 10 people who were confused, fix the problems, repeat. Same goes for websites. People send in "HN please review my site" all the time.
27.		The Xanadu Dream (codinghorror.com)
		42 points by bdfh42 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
		thesnark on Oct 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery I made a portrait of my girlfriend out of dice. http://www.elusivesnark.com/2008/11/carolines-dice-portrait....
29.		A Canvas Experiment (tomtheisen.com)
		38 points by edw519 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
		Darmani on Oct 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Poll: Is self-posting ok? Why would it not be okay to get karma for sharing something you produced, but okay to get karma for sharing something someone else produced?
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