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1.Zed Shaw's Free Hackers Union (freehackersunion.org)
74 points by smanek on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
2.Richard Feynman’s Modest Science (and fake teaching) (duartes.org)
49 points by aaco on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
3.Massive RedHat Perl performance issue (vipul.net)
46 points by aditya on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
4. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
4.Join us at Hacker News Coffee, Palo Alto, Tuesday at 8:30am [ext]
47 points by markbao on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
5.Firebug 1.2 Released (ejohn.org)
42 points by soundsop on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
6.What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (modernmechanix.com)
40 points by pg on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP (symworld.com)
39 points by aggieben on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
8.7 "must read" Linux tutorials (linuxscrew.com)
38 points by Anon84 on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
9.Join us at Hacker News Coffee, San Francisco, Tuesday at 9:15am [ext]
31 points by bdr on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.Ask YC: Feedback on PolishMyWriting.com (polishmywriting.com)
28 points by raffi on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
11.Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next? [ext]
27 points by prakash on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
12.Benchmarks: LLVM, gcc (cocoageek.com)
25 points by gtani on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
13. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
13.Disqus: comments can now be blog posts (disqus.net)
23 points by herdrick on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
14.Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget (engadget.com)
21 points by edawerd on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
15.Deadlocked (codinghorror.com)
22 points by Anon84 on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
16. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
16.Enhancing Multitasking to Enhance our Minds (einfall.wordpress.com)
22 points by DaniFong on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.Detailed review of MIT's "Introduction to Algorithms" course. Part three: Sorting (catonmat.net)
21 points by yoyo on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
18.Iron Scheme: Scheme implementation running on .NET (codeplex.com)
21 points by iamelgringo on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
19. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
19.A Java Syntax Quirk (uncommons.org)
21 points by raganwald on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
20.Ask PG: Is the [dead] tool algorithmic or moderated or both? [ext]
21 points by iamelgringo on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
21.Build One to Throw Away (tbray.org)
20 points by astrec on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
22. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
22.Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away (avc.com)
19 points by nickb on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
23.How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World (wired.com)
19 points by nreece on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
24.Using the Zillow API for New York Times Coverage (rememberthisguy.com)
18 points by auston on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.The Traffic Guru (wilsoncenter.org)
17 points by rglovejoy on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
26.My Life With Tim (aaronsw.com)
16 points by hhm on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Will Google’s Android Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone? (roughlydrafted.com)
16 points by raganwald on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
28.Haskell: Batteries Included (unsw.edu.au)
15 points by iamelgringo on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
29.Ask YC: Feedback on BreakkUp.com (breakkup.com)
15 points by pxlpshr on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
30.Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive (rosettaproject.org)
15 points by alexwg on Aug 25, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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