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1.Amazing chat bot developed by a startup claiming to have made a significant AI breakthrough (vid) (technologyreview.com)
23 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
2.Ask News.YC: Is anyone building a desktop application? [ext]
20 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
3.Ask YC: Best way to learn CSS/UI design? [ext]
18 points by ochiba on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
4. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.... because Ruby isn't terse enough yet (raganwald.com)
17 points by mdemare on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
5.Facebook employees know what profiles you look at (valleywag.com)
15 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
6.A Vision of Students Today (youtube.com)
12 points by alaskamiller on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
7. The Leipzig judge who acquitted an innocent Jew straight into the Gestapo (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 212 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.TED: Ideas worth spreading (ted.com)
11 points by yters on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
8.Aaron Swartz on Jottit (youtube.com)
10 points by eusman on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
9.Summarizes what it's like working for most big companies (as a developer/engineer) (dilbert.com)
9 points by chaostheory on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
10. Economic arbitrage of your own career before the intelligence revolution strikes (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 3 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.BlueprintCSS 101 (blueflavor.com)
9 points by danw on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
11.Dell: Windows Vista on 512Mb: "Booting the OS, without running applications or games" (dell.com)
8 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
12.Letter to hackers frm a non-hacker: Quit your "wow" app and build us something useful. [ext]
7 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
13. Beyond the labor crisis: Managing the coming recession of subjective meaning ()
46 points by gin5806 2 days ago | hide | 47 comments
13.Google Video - GIT (video.google.com)
7 points by mcxx on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
14.Microsoft hard at work getting Windows to run on OLPC computers (reuters.com)
7 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
15.Born to Build, Not to Play: an Entrepreneur's 'Curse' (nytimes.com)
6 points by garbowza on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
16. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 611 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.Scaling early stage startups (novcrequired.com)
6 points by mudge on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
17.Django Users: i18n Security Fix Released (djangoproject.com)
6 points by jasonyan on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
18.What's your favorite Javascript framework? [ext]
6 points by andrewfong on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
19. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments
19.A New Prediction Market for the Masses (nytimes.com)
5 points by amichail on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
20.Anyone have experience getting software patents? [ext]
5 points by ratsbane on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.Is F Sharp Enough? (whattofix.com)
5 points by DanielBMarkham on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
22. Citgo, Gold Mines, and the Long Unwind of Venezuelan Expropriation (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 86 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.Godel's Thoughts on AI: Godel, Nagel, minds and machines (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
5 points by Jd on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
23.Objective-C 2.0 Overview (brush up before iPhone SDK comes out) (developer.apple.com)
4 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
24.WebShots purchased for 70 million dollars, sold for 45 (wired.com)
4 points by vlad on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
25. How the Internet Redistributes Social Capital and Unsettles Elites (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 433 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.Human race will 'split into two different species' (dailymail.co.uk)
4 points by gibsonf1 on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
26.Meetro Working to Make Forum Creation Dead Simple (techcrunch.com)
3 points by brett on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
27.DabbleDB: transitioning from database tool to data-driven app development platform (dabbledb.com)
3 points by henning on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
28. The Constitutional Case That Trump's Tariffs Are Simply Illegal (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 369 days ago | hide | 7 comments
28.OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette: Speed up your wireframing (urlgreyhot.com)
3 points by danw on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
29.Don't Keep Your Startup Idea a Secret (shelfmade.wordpress.com)
3 points by mikesabat on Oct 27, 2007 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.BusinessWeek: Slideshow of Tech Buyouts (businessweek.com)
3 points by sharpshoot on Oct 27, 2007 [ext]
31. How to Brief Executives Using Top-Down Logic and Ruthless Brevity (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 253 days ago | hide | 128 comments

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