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1.The Website Is Down (Hilarious 10 Minute Video) (thewebsiteisdown.com)
81 points by edw519 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
2.Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords (launchsplash.com)
72 points by ruperp on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
3.100 Vim commands every programmer should know (catswhocode.com)
57 points by nickb on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
4. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
4.Auto-Scaling Web Sites Using Amazon EC2 and Scalr (amazonwebservices.com)
40 points by iamelgringo on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
5.I have finally seen the Emacs light [ext]
38 points by globalrev on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
6. Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how (thinkvitamin.com)
36 points by adamhowell on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.8 Golden Rules of Interface Design (washington.edu)
36 points by nreece on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
8.Once Nearly Invisible To Search Engines, Flash Files Can Now Be Found And Indexed (techcrunch.com)
35 points by nickb on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
9.Comet Breakthrough: Socket for JavaScript in the Browser (cometdaily.com)
34 points by jacobolus on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
10. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
10.Ask Hacker News: What do you think of this shopping cart on my new startup that just launched? (200nipples.com)
30 points by wmeredith on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
11.Features are a one-way street. (37signals.com)
27 points by craigbellot on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
12.Array Indices: Start from 0 or 1? (xkcd.com)
26 points by pbnaidu on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Ustream.tv Just Got a Redesign, But Justin.tv Is Still Beating Its Pants Off (techcrunch.com)
21 points by immad on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
14.Ok, Now It’s Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset (techcrunch.com)
25 points by jmorin007 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
15.Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share (arstechnica.com)
24 points by parenthesis on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Scale Cheaply - Sharding (codebetter.com)
22 points by dhotson on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
17.Ask YC: Links in submission text? [ext]
23 points by bprater on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
18.Why Exceptions Suck (ckwop.me.uk)
21 points by edw519 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
19. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
19.The “Crisis” In Venture Capital (techcrunch.com)
20 points by drm237 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
20.4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). [ext]
18 points by agentbleu on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
21.LinkedIn Architecture (hurvitz.org)
18 points by dhotson on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Godel's letter to Von Neumann: Computational Complexity years before its time (fortnow.com)
16 points by smanek on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
23.Extreme Programming Explained (yosefk.com)
16 points by ivank on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
24.What If... It Was Easy to Write Firefox Extensions? (azarask.in)
15 points by DaniFong on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.Parallel Computing: Why the Future Is Non-Algorithmic (rebelscience.blogspot.com)
15 points by Mapou on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
26.Results of our Ruby development survey (devver.net)
14 points by wastedbrains on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
27.Hulu a consumer success but still a small business: Est. $12.5-25mm net revs (alleyinsider.com)
12 points by fromedome on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
28. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
28.The difference between a developer and a programmer. (metaphorcrash.blogspot.com)
12 points by edw519 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
29.How Twitter could be worth nothing in a year (cnet.com)
12 points by edw519 on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
30.Dangerous New Chris Anderson Theory: We No Longer Need Logic (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
12 points by nickb on July 1, 2008 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
31. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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