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1.Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only (chromium.org)
117 points by datums on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
2.Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine (garry.posterous.com)
113 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
3.The creator of Monkey Island plays and narrates his game, 20 years later. (grumpygamer.com)
104 points by shadytrees on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
4. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Next Test - Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers (nytimes.com)
65 points by peter123 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
5.Shoeshine man catches a break - and some cash (sfgate.com)
65 points by kqr2 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
6.Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine (zgarbow.posterous.com)
64 points by garbowza on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.The Myth of the Genius Programmer (code.google.com)
61 points by mlinsey on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
8.Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration (techcrunch.com)
57 points by swombat on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
9.Don't Click It (dontclick.it)
56 points by jmonegro on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.Google Wave β€œis anti-Web” (ft.com)
53 points by Anon84 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
11.Home 2009 - movie about humanity (home-2009.com)
52 points by benoitc2 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
12.Pay rent or get a permit? SF bureaucracy scuffs dream of homeless shoe shiner (sfgate.com)
51 points by jbarciauskas on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.Starting Up, One Year Later: Chasing Dragons (tom.posterous.com)
50 points by jmorin007 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
14.A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft's Bing search engine (goodexperience.com)
43 points by kqr2 on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
15.An insightful look at Google Wave's architecture (alert.sk)
41 points by artost on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
16. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
16.Ask HN: Review my project: SitesInCommon (sitesincommon.com)
40 points by natrius on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
17.Useful command-line scripts for web developers (or anyone else really) (emson.co.uk)
40 points by emson on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
18.How to succeed or fail on a frontier (unenumerated.blogspot.com)
38 points by nkurz on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.How I Got A Job From A Blog Comment (michaelyurechko.com)
34 points by mikeyur on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
20.Bill Gates urges fellow rich to share their wealth (google.com)
32 points by swombat on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
21.It's Cold Cash, Not Cold Feet, Motivating Runaway Brides in China (wsj.com)
31 points by tokenadult on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
22. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Web Performance Best Practices (code.google.com)
30 points by robg on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
23.Sessions from Google I/O 2009 (code.google.com)
28 points by geuis on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
24.Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? (techcrunch.com)
28 points by azharcs on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.The May Unemployment Numbers are Here, and Worse Than Predicted (michaelscomments.wordpress.com)
28 points by azgolfer on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
26.Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS (computerworld.com)
26 points by davidw on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
27.Two types of users - Why your startup should pay attention (mixpanel.com)
27 points by suhail on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.Jobs Ready to Return to Apple Helm (wsj.com)
24 points by kf on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
29.Google Chrome for Mac (google.com)
22 points by mshafrir on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.Python SimpleDB Library (github.com/sixapart)
22 points by mace on June 5, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
31. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments

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