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1.Jgrowl (stanlemon.net)
68 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
2.Pothead Ph.D. - This is most definitely not a cautionary tale (chronicle.com)
66 points by robg on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
3.Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG (idlewords.com)
62 points by smanek on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App (balsamiq.com)
62 points by tortilla on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
5.Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
57 points by enomar on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
6.See Twitter's SQL. (twitter.com/dpn)
49 points by ptm on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
7. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
7.How to Say Nothing in 500 Words (baylor.edu)
44 points by imgabe on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
8.The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities (anarchogeek.com)
37 points by rabble on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
9.The End of Bugs? (heroku.com)
35 points by sant0sk1 on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
10. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Richard Feynman on The Value of Science (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
37 points by mqt on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
11.Twitter to buy Summize.com (joshchandlerblog.blogspot.com)
34 points by joshchandler on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
12.Recommended Flaw: 31% of Digg Homepage submitted by 10 Users (popfail.com)
26 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
13. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
13.The Facebooker Who Friended Obama (nytimes.com)
21 points by timr on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
14.As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier (louisgray.com)
28 points by tomh on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
15.Economics of Software (sun.com)
25 points by gaika on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
16. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
16.A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next? (alleyinsider.com)
15 points by pakafka on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.An Apple User Tries Ubuntu (earthweb.com)
24 points by rams on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.PostgreSQL Gets Religion About Replication (scale-out-blog.blogspot.com)
23 points by iamelgringo on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
19. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
19.Rails employee expected to spend 50% of his time doing what he desires (jamesgolick.com)
23 points by cawel on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
20.YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source (github.com/jcnetdev)
23 points by nickb on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
21.Google has trained us all to think like marketers (firewatching.com)
22 points by extantproject on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.200 Highest Paying Search Terms (cwire.org)
22 points by tlrobinson on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
23.LLVM and running C as well as Python in the browser (ajaxian.com)
21 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
24.Economics of a POW Camp (classic paper) (albany.edu)
20 points by smanek on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
25. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
25.Monitor Access to Your Gmail Account (techcrunch.com)
19 points by enomar on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
26.Top 20 resources to increase Web site traffic (ocinnovationvault.com)
18 points by OCInnovationVlt on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
27.Don't Quit Your Day Job (forbes.com)
17 points by aceregen on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Understand YSlow: What Matters; What Doesn't (hostscope.com)
16 points by jrrl on July 7, 2008 [ext]
29.Ask YC: Would you sign this if you were me? [ext]
15 points by PStamatiou on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
30.German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac (9to5mac.com)
13 points by cmcginnis on July 7, 2008 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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