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1. Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose (mathoda.com)
102 points by mathoda on Oct 2, 2008 | 64 comments
2. Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist (schneier.com)
63 points by soundsop on Oct 2, 2008 | 24 comments
3. Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate (phdcomics.com)
55 points by timr on Oct 2, 2008 | 31 comments
4. Hack your anatomy: How To Whistle Loudly (natwilson.com)
49 points by eru on Oct 2, 2008 | 33 comments
5. Flickr Engineers Do It Offline (flickr.com)
48 points by joshwa on Oct 2, 2008 | 14 comments
6. How the current crisis compares to the Panic of 1873 (chronicle.com)
44 points by rglovejoy on Oct 2, 2008 | 9 comments
7. Developing for the iPhone: The Fear (daringfireball.net)
41 points by e1ven on Oct 2, 2008 | 7 comments
8. YUI 2.6.0 Released (yuiblog.com)
41 points by ajbatac on Oct 2, 2008 | 4 comments
9. 5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind (readwriteweb.com)
38 points by babyshake on Oct 2, 2008 | 22 comments
10. Why MooTools (or Why not JQuery) (juliocapote.com)
37 points by reazalun on Oct 2, 2008 | 25 comments
11. IFrames getting advantage over FBML for Facebook apps (ccheever.com)
33 points by ntoshev on Oct 2, 2008 | 10 comments
12. Ask YC: I just got laid off, and I have some startup dreams.
32 points by rtf on Oct 2, 2008 | 29 comments
13. Locale app for Android "wouldn't even be possible" on iPhone, says MIT $275K winner (xconomy.com)
31 points by waderoush on Oct 2, 2008 | 13 comments
14. Review our startup: FlowMingle - Online Dating for the Social Internet (flowmingle.com)
30 points by iloveyouocean on Oct 2, 2008 | 52 comments
15. America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role (spiegel.de)
29 points by peakok on Oct 2, 2008 | 51 comments
16. Einstein letters reveal a turmoil beyond science (boston.com)
29 points by known on Oct 2, 2008 | 25 comments
17. Gmail and Hotmail Captchas Cracked (arstechnica.com)
27 points by soundsop on Oct 2, 2008 | 28 comments
18. US consumers flock to Mac laptops (reghardware.co.uk)
24 points by nickb on Oct 2, 2008 | 33 comments
19. Low level stuff in ARM (coranac.com)
23 points by dacav on Oct 2, 2008 | 3 comments
20. Super Angel Ron Conway To Would-Be Startups: Don't Quit Your Day Jobs (alleyinsider.com)
22 points by vascoos01 on Oct 2, 2008 | 20 comments
21. Make Your Site Run 10 Times Faster (highscalability.com)
22 points by known on Oct 2, 2008 | 7 comments
22. Huge System for Skype Surveillance, Censorship Discovered in China (nytimes.com)
21 points by joshwa on Oct 2, 2008 | 14 comments
23. What will happen when Clock Speeds stop increasing? (glomek.blogspot.com)
21 points by jonnytran on Oct 2, 2008 | 25 comments
24. Senate passes financial bailout bill full of sweeteners (cnn.com)
20 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 2, 2008 | 36 comments
25. No Exits. Liquidity Dries Up Even More For VC-Backed Startups In Third Quarter (techcrunch.com)
20 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 2, 2008 | 11 comments
26. Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
20 points by browser411 on Oct 2, 2008 | 6 comments
27. Google Launches Its Own Memetracker (techcrunch.com)
19 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 2, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Blizzard to get $6 million from maker of WoW bot (bbc.co.uk)
17 points by andreyf on Oct 2, 2008 | 23 comments
29. JetBlue auctions tickets on ebay (economist.com)
17 points by soundsop on Oct 2, 2008 | 3 comments
30. GitHub Hires Scott Chacon to Help Evangelize Git (jointheconversation.org)
17 points by mojombo on Oct 2, 2008

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