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1.Founder Stories (trevorblackwell.com)
85 points by pogos on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
2.How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier) (wired.com)
76 points by bdfh42 on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
3.About the origins of the equals sign (plover.com)
66 points by marketer on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
4. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
4.A thorough investigation into why old computers turn yellow (vintagecomputing.com)
44 points by marketer on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
5.Disco: mapReduce in Erlang, submit jobs in Python (discoproject.org)
42 points by gtani on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
6.The second browser war (economist.com)
42 points by prakash on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
7. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 475 days ago | hide | 135 comments
7.V8 under the hood (offthelip.org)
37 points by davidw on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
8.Chrome, multicore and embarrassing parallelism (luckycal.com)
37 points by sanj on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
9.Apple now rejecting iPhone Apps for "limited utility." (macrumors.com)
35 points by tstegart on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.Mythbusters RFID episode axed after 'pressure' from credit card firms (theregister.co.uk)
35 points by astrec on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
11.Popcuts (YC summer 08) on CNN.com (cnn.com)
29 points by ryan on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
12.MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 7, 8: Hashing (catonmat.net)
32 points by gtani on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class (techcrunch.com)
31 points by brm on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
14.One Of The Coolest Homepages I've Seen (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
29 points by bdfh42 on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
15.Slow motion lightning video is mindblowing [video] (gizmodo.com)
27 points by alexwg on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
16. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
16.Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper (techcrunch.com)
23 points by danw on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
17.10 inspiring admin interfaces (nemetral.net)
25 points by jmorin007 on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? [ext]
24 points by cadalac on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
19. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
19.Scons - an autotools replacement and chrome's build tool (scons.org)
23 points by senthil_rajasek on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
20.'MythBusters' co-host backpedals on RFID kerfuffle (cnet.com)
20 points by nickb on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.Bulk Vote for Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News (ejohn.org)
20 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
22. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
22.Slinkset (YC summer 08) downplays custom reddits, announces anonymous functionality (thestandard.com)
19 points by jmorin007 on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
23.How to Chrome Your Industry (hbsp.com)
18 points by colortone on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
24.Letter From a VC: Seeking Feedback (thefunded.com)
17 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
25. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
25.Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory (nytimes.com)
16 points by gopalakrishnans on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.Using Google Analytics - New Snippet Code for AJAX (jtame05.wordpress.com)
16 points by jmtame on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
27.Google Chrome's Sandbox not your average (chromium.org)
16 points by tuukkah on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Tesla's Tower of Power (damninteresting.com)
15 points by nickb on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
29.OpenBTS Black Rock City Field Test (sourceforge.net)
13 points by davidw on Sept 4, 2008 [ext]
30.How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight (webmonkey.com)
13 points by bootload on Sept 4, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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