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1.The State of the Art is Terrible (zackarymorris.tumblr.com)
462 points by zackmorris on Oct 3, 2011 | 228 comments
2.FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post (feefighters.com)
455 points by LiveTheDream on Oct 3, 2011 | 78 comments
3.Homemade GPS Receiver (demon.co.uk)
329 points by samlittlewood on Oct 3, 2011 | 13 comments
4.An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe (handcraft.com)
292 points by primigenus on Oct 3, 2011 | 94 comments
5.Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro (railscasts.com)
233 points by illdave on Oct 3, 2011 | 61 comments
6.I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help (reddit.com)
227 points by pagliara on Oct 3, 2011 | 74 comments
7.Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage' (techdirt.com)
220 points by profitbaron on Oct 3, 2011 | 94 comments
8.Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server (github.com/glenjamin)
194 points by dchest on Oct 3, 2011 | 118 comments
9.Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan (torrentfreak.com)
192 points by nextparadigms on Oct 3, 2011 | 30 comments
10.How to get into Y Combinator (samaltman.com)
182 points by sama on Oct 3, 2011 | 53 comments
11.Adobe acquires Typekit (typekit.com)
179 points by jcsalterego on Oct 3, 2011 | 35 comments
12.Is Haskell the Cure? (mathias-biilmann.net)
175 points by bobfunk on Oct 3, 2011 | 89 comments
13.When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices (arstechnica.com)
163 points by llambda on Oct 3, 2011 | 86 comments
14.Node.js cures cancer (brianbeck.com)
156 points by kfalter on Oct 3, 2011 | 89 comments
15.Goodbye to the Yakuza (theatlanticwire.com)
148 points by genieyclo on Oct 3, 2011 | 51 comments
16.I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA
132 points by kberger on Oct 3, 2011 | 66 comments
17.Diggnation to End in December (nytimes.com)
131 points by ssclafani on Oct 3, 2011 | 38 comments
18.Scala on Heroku (heroku.com)
126 points by adamwiggins on Oct 3, 2011 | 20 comments
19.Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap) (nitobi.com)
121 points by kgutteridge on Oct 3, 2011 | 18 comments
20.How to Procrastinate and still get things done (chronicle.com)
120 points by saroz on Oct 3, 2011 | 24 comments
21.Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read (jacquesmattheij.com)
117 points by ColinWright on Oct 3, 2011 | 113 comments
22.Meeting People (hangger.com)
115 points by ziadbc on Oct 3, 2011 | 36 comments
23.What it costs to live in Japan (bemmu.posterous.com)
112 points by bemmu on Oct 3, 2011 | 70 comments

So tone deaf. A PR coup for FeeFighters. A total PR debacle for BBB. FeeFighters could in fact give a fuck about their actual accreditation, so they had nothing to lose. BBB meanwhile looks petty, out of touch, and defensive.

You didn't need to be a chess grandmaster to see how this will play out. You barely even need to see one move ahead. What moron at BBB OK'd this? How incompetent is the rest of their organization?

25.The Fans Are All Right (blog.pinboard.in)
109 points by phil on Oct 3, 2011 | 16 comments

Note to self: Starting immediately, all raganwald projects will have a “Is it any good?” section in the readme, and the answer shall be “yes."
27.Git-dude: desktop notifications for git (github.com/sickill)
96 points by bmaeser on Oct 3, 2011 | 7 comments
28.Oracle on why you shouldn't use NOSQL (PDF) (docs.google.com)
95 points by omaranto on Oct 3, 2011 | 98 comments
29.Sprint to 'Bet the Company' on iPhone (wsj.com)
95 points by nicksergeant on Oct 3, 2011 | 99 comments
30.25% of Yale goes to Consulting, Finance (yaledailynews.com)
94 points by jrosenblatt on Oct 3, 2011 | 76 comments

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