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1.Michael Arrington: “I’m a Click-Whoring Jackass” (theangrydrunk.com)
103 points by raganwald on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
2.To HN: Looking for people to talk to... [ext]
77 points by stevenboudreau on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
3.Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending? [ext]
54 points by terpua on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 (revision3.com)
52 points by kyro on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
5.Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based Twitter clone (yarivsblog.com)
48 points by foemmel on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
6.Y Combinator Ad (ycombinator.com)
46 points by byrneseyeview on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Designing For Evil (codinghorror.com)
40 points by prakash on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
8.Where are they now? The stories of what happened to ten dot-coms from the first bubble (thestandard.com)
36 points by ilamont on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
9.Dennis Ritchie (R from K&R) explains "/* You are not expected to understand this */" (bell-labs.com)
32 points by henning on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
10. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
10.EC2 now offering "High-CPU" VM (2-8 core) instances (aws.typepad.com)
29 points by rcoder on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: What are some good biographies to read? [ext]
27 points by stevenboudreau on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
12.Ask YC: When did you start having interesting ideas? [ext]
26 points by Alex3917 on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment (cnet.com)
25 points by markbao on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
14.An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (ycombinator.com)
21 points by byrneseyeview on May 29, 2008 [ext]
15.[Ask YC] Flash vs Shockwave vs Flex for games [ext]
19 points by arjunlall on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.Ask HN: coding challenges as part of interviews: yes or no? [ext]
17 points by rtc on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
17.Using Amazon S3 As a CDN? (davidcancel.com)
16 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 29, 2008 [ext]
18.On Reddit, Digg and Hacker News (antoniocangiano.com)
15 points by acangiano on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Who Has Comment Copyright Ownership In A Disqus Era? (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
15 points by drm237 on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
20.Why PHP Sucks (Hint: It doesn't) (chipmunkninja.com)
15 points by wigglywonk on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
21.YC Rejected? Don't give up. [ext]
14 points by Jaggu on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
22. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
22.Hacking the Industrial Economy (hbsp.com)
14 points by colortone on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
23.Twitter Technology Blog: You've Got Q's, We've Got A's (dev.twitter.com)
14 points by diego on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
24.Top seven reasons "Why I love to write code" (wunki.org)
13 points by edw519 on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
25. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25. Lessons on recommendation systems (kiwitobes.com)
12 points by nickb on May 29, 2008 [ext]
26.Star Wars hologram communication now a reality | ajb{log}: learn something new each day (allanjosephbatac.com)
12 points by ajbatac on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
27."Nomic" - a game in which changing the rules is a move (earlham.edu)
11 points by michael_nielsen on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Zuckerberg: The end goal isn't to sell the company or IPO (cnet.com)
10 points by markbao on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
29.UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works (teamquest.com)
10 points by nickb on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
30.Speed Up with Wordpress and Gears (ajaxian.com)
10 points by bdfh42 on May 29, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments

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