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Stories from October 25, 2012
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1.Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong (foundersatwork.com)
518 points by nswanberg on Oct 25, 2012 | 88 comments
2.Startup School 2012 Videos (startupschool.org)
284 points by kogir on Oct 25, 2012 | 59 comments
3.Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5" (talkweb.eu)
277 points by tlrobinson on Oct 25, 2012 | 95 comments
4.Career Day - A parent introduces programming at her son's school (therealkatie.net)
264 points by dhotson on Oct 25, 2012 | 60 comments
5.Windows 8 Arrives (microsoft.com)
255 points by dragonquest on Oct 25, 2012 | 213 comments
6.Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving (hackaday.com)
223 points by ari_elle on Oct 25, 2012 | 23 comments
7.BootMetro: Metro style web framework (aozora.github.com)
211 points by reg29 on Oct 25, 2012 | 85 comments
8.GitHub Game Off (github.com/blog)
199 points by remi on Oct 25, 2012 | 40 comments
9.How We Got into Y Combinator (lloyd.tc)
166 points by lloydarmbrust on Oct 25, 2012 | 81 comments
10.A Practical Optional Type System for Clojure (cloud.github.com)
164 points by swannodette on Oct 25, 2012 | 51 comments
11.A Rails 3.2 application with recurring billing using Stripe (railsapps.github.com)
152 points by DanielKehoe on Oct 25, 2012 | 22 comments
12."Ruby developers need to stop using EventMachine. It's the wrong direction." (slideshare.net)
149 points by caseorganic on Oct 25, 2012 | 70 comments
13.Why We Can't Solve Big Problems (technologyreview.com)
147 points by andrewl on Oct 25, 2012 | 120 comments
14.Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM (indiegogo.com)
132 points by nyrb on Oct 25, 2012 | 79 comments
15.Ask HN: What is this? 158268a350000000
128 points by DonnyV on Oct 25, 2012 | 67 comments
16.Travis Shrugged (pandodaily.com)
121 points by ajsharp on Oct 25, 2012 | 63 comments
17.Startup pack gives away $10k worth of tools to new businesses (startuppack.org)
122 points by jfoucher on Oct 25, 2012 | 50 comments
18.Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (arstechnica.com)
122 points by zoowar on Oct 25, 2012 | 55 comments
19.Python for Data Analysis (johndcook.com)
120 points by anotherbot on Oct 25, 2012 | 28 comments
20.Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim (phoronix.com)
115 points by ari_elle on Oct 25, 2012 | 29 comments
21.Lockitron exceeds $2,000,000 in reservations (lockitron.com)
112 points by idigit on Oct 25, 2012 | 107 comments
22.How To Develop A Basic Operating System On The Raspberry Pi (cam.ac.uk)
105 points by pepsi_can on Oct 25, 2012 | 18 comments
23.New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop (kotaku.com)
104 points by derpenxyne on Oct 25, 2012 | 84 comments
24.Siracusa on Microsoft (arstechnica.com)
103 points by tmoretti on Oct 25, 2012 | 58 comments
25.SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers (opensourcehacker.com)
102 points by miohtama on Oct 25, 2012 | 41 comments
26.Introducing the Parse Windows 8 SDK (parse.com)
97 points by depoll on Oct 25, 2012 | 15 comments
27.Enterprise Piet (leanpub.com)
99 points by raganwald on Oct 25, 2012 | 39 comments
28.Amazon Reports First Quarterly Loss in 4 Years (nytimes.com)
88 points by mermalaude on Oct 25, 2012 | 86 comments
29.The yuan is displacing the dollar as a key currency (economist.com)
81 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 25, 2012 | 86 comments

I went back and looked at their application to see what we liked about it. What we liked is that they really understood their domain. This was not random undergrads making up some idea about social shopping. These people clearly understood local newspapers.

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