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1.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars (metro.co.uk)
321 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 | 107 comments
2.Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago (snmaynard.com)
316 points by beastmcbeast on Oct 17, 2012 | 108 comments
3.The Pirate Bay in the cloud (thepiratebay.se)
279 points by ponyous on Oct 17, 2012 | 68 comments
4.Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center (wired.com)
270 points by Hurdy on Oct 17, 2012 | 96 comments
5.Meteor releases authentication, accounts system, and new screencast (meteor.com)
269 points by debergalis on Oct 17, 2012 | 65 comments
6.Google's data centers are guarded by stormtroopers (maps.google.com)
257 points by jeffisageek on Oct 17, 2012 | 51 comments
7.Making Yourself a CEO (bhorowitz.com)
221 points by FilterJoe on Oct 17, 2012 | 33 comments
8.EC2 I/O (scalyr.com)
220 points by snewman on Oct 17, 2012 | 26 comments
9.International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners (ioccc.org)
182 points by lelf on Oct 17, 2012 | 37 comments
10.Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof (torrentfreak.com)
148 points by anons2011 on Oct 17, 2012 | 71 comments
11.Android 4.2 to include SE Linux and other security features (androidpolice.com)
145 points by mtgx on Oct 17, 2012 | 23 comments
12.The Courage To Say ‘I Don’t Know’ (wbur.org)
141 points by jordanmueller on Oct 17, 2012 | 86 comments
13.Jack Dorsey: Let's Reconsider Our "Users" (jacks.tumblr.com)
142 points by hornokplease on Oct 17, 2012 | 99 comments
14.SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket (flightglobal.com)
117 points by someperson on Oct 17, 2012 | 49 comments
15.How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup (virool.com)
112 points by adebelov on Oct 17, 2012 | 65 comments
16.PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea (theunraveler.com)
104 points by theunraveler on Oct 17, 2012 | 122 comments
17.Run SQL on MongoDB (citusdata.com)
103 points by ozgune on Oct 17, 2012 | 34 comments

#1 Lesson from all of this: Instead of talking about your product to your prospect, talk about something your prospect cares deeply about to your prospect.

I had no idea what you did and didn't really care until you used it in context of something I did care about: Hacker News. Now I know what you do, understand how it applies to me, and best of all, I'm starting to visualize how else I could use it.

We should all approach our prospects like you just did here. Nice job!

19.Exoplanet found right next door in Alpha Centauri (arstechnica.com)
102 points by iProject on Oct 17, 2012 | 36 comments
20.Do the police give more tickets at the end of the month to meet quotas? (robert.io)
104 points by rpicard on Oct 17, 2012 | 89 comments
21.GOV.UK: new government site built with open source software, £70 million cheaper (cabinetoffice.gov.uk)
100 points by bfirsh on Oct 17, 2012 | 44 comments
22.Django security releases issued (djangoproject.com)
95 points by jacobian on Oct 17, 2012 | 17 comments
23.Windows System Exploit (megafrock.com)
92 points by maxdeliso on Oct 17, 2012 | 45 comments
24.Bountify - Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
92 points by danabramov on Oct 17, 2012 | 57 comments
25.My son's flashcard routine (bentilly.blogspot.com)
91 points by btilly on Oct 17, 2012 | 56 comments
26.Patent #7028023: Linked List (google.com)
90 points by yen223 on Oct 17, 2012 | 62 comments
27.Python socket programming tutorial (binarytides.com)
88 points by silv3r_m00n on Oct 17, 2012 | 20 comments
28.Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models (codeclimate.com)
85 points by lest on Oct 17, 2012 | 20 comments
29.Software development final exam answers: Algorithms and Data Structures (daemonology.net)
90 points by cperciva on Oct 17, 2012 | 36 comments

  When people arrived, they sat down, opened an envelope and read,
  “Don’t Have $100k to spend on seeding a viral video? Try Virool.
  We do the same thing as X company, but better, faster and cheaper!”
I find this unethical.

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