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1.Amazon: Our Most Fulfilling Web Service Yet (aws.typepad.com)
56 points by kuldeep_kap on March 20, 2008 | 10 comments
2.The world's worst toaster (sethgodin.typepad.com)
48 points by bdfh42 on March 20, 2008 | 25 comments
3.Wine 1.0 is finally coming out, 15 years after project started (thestandard.com)
47 points by ilamont on March 20, 2008 | 9 comments
4.Five reasons why a recession is a good time to start a company (thestandard.com)
40 points by ilamont on March 20, 2008 | 21 comments
5.Steady decline in burglaries because "Everybody has everything now" (npr.org)
32 points by mhb on March 20, 2008 | 35 comments
πŸ“š. The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)
7 min read | by chrisloy.dev | saved 68 days ago | 14% read | archive
6.Keeping up with the YCombinators (venturebeat.com)
31 points by rokhayakebe on March 20, 2008 | 6 comments
7.Your Ignorance Does Not Make a Programming Language Suck (coffeeghost.net)
25 points by edw519 on March 20, 2008 | 5 comments
8.Making a total hash of it (economist.com)
25 points by bootload on March 20, 2008 | 14 comments
9.Big Name Companies Using Ruby on Rails (obiefernandez.com)
22 points by raganwald on March 20, 2008 | 2 comments
10.SF JavaScript Meetup - lots of hackers, YC people, JS experts
21 points by zellunit on March 20, 2008 | 10 comments
πŸ“š. Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings (blog.wilsonl.in)
33 min read | by Wilson Lin | saved 209 days ago | 1% read | archive
11.Django’s tipping point (antoniocangiano.com)
20 points by acangiano on March 20, 2008 | 6 comments
12.You can see it coming... (kottke.org)
17 points by ivankirigin on March 20, 2008 | 12 comments
13.Mod_rails teaser video. Are they pulling our leg or is it real? (modrails.com)
17 points by wavesplash on March 20, 2008 | 3 comments
14.Pylot: a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services (pylot.org)
14 points by chaostheory on March 20, 2008
15.Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming (scribd.com)
14 points by jmorin007 on March 20, 2008 | 12 comments
πŸ“š. Which were the best eras to visit various places? (marginalrevolution.com)
3 min read | by Tyler Cowen | saved 66 days ago | archive
16.Design/code reviews in a startup
13 points by johnnyice213 on March 20, 2008 | 18 comments
17.Railslike PHP Framework: Code Igniter (codeigniter.com)
13 points by jdavid on March 20, 2008 | 33 comments
18.Hacker Foundation && Hacker Spaces (hackerfoundation.org)
13 points by jdavid on March 20, 2008
19.Scientists induce retina regeneration in mice, curing blindness (biologynews.net)
14 points by ingenium on March 20, 2008 | 4 comments
20.Visa drops $18 billion IPO, the largest ever in US history. (msn.com)
13 points by michjeanty on March 20, 2008 | 9 comments
πŸ“š. OpenAI Is Building a Banker (archive.ph)
19 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 43 days ago | archive
21.YouTube Co-Founder Starts Venture Capital Firm (mashable.com)
12 points by bootload on March 20, 2008 | 5 comments
22.Ning's business model (ning.com)
12 points by prakash on March 20, 2008 | 2 comments
23.A Web Framework for Every Language (hanselman.com)
11 points by edw519 on March 20, 2008 | 6 comments
24.FCC Confirms that Big Winner in Spectrum Auction is Verizon. So Why Is Google Smiling? (techcrunch.com)
11 points by makimaki on March 20, 2008 | 1 comment
25.By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions (sciam.com)
11 points by kf on March 20, 2008 | 2 comments
πŸ“š. Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (archive.ph)
13 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 43 days ago | archive
26.The Hyperinflation of XMLSpy (yafla.com)
11 points by prakash on March 20, 2008 | 4 comments
27.Function Currying in Scala (codecommit.com)
10 points by gongfudoi on March 20, 2008 | 1 comment
28.What a load of old rubbish: MMOs. They're doing it wrong. (parallax-rising.net)
9 points by chaostheory on March 20, 2008 | 11 comments
29.Snaptalent now lets you buy job postings on the News.YC jobs page
9 points by sharpshoot on March 20, 2008 | 8 comments
30.Yahoo's rules for web performance (yahoo.net)
9 points by iamelgringo on March 20, 2008 | 2 comments
πŸ“š. AI Will Not Make You Rich (joincolossus.com)
22 min read | by Jerry Neumann | saved 176 days ago | 89% read | archive

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