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1.Advice to Summer YC Applicants (ycombinator.com)
125 points by pg on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
2.Mystery of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder is probably solved (sciam.com)
119 points by dfranke on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
3.Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (useit.com)
115 points by henning on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
4. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
4.Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things (randsinrepose.com)
72 points by sarvesh on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
5.Sometimes having nothing to lose can be a real advantage for a startup (firstround.com)
73 points by jkopelman on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
6.Firefox New Tab Page: Cognitive Shield (labs.mozilla.com)
61 points by toni on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
7. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments
7.Ruby's Biggest Challenge for 2009 (antoniocangiano.com)
60 points by acangiano on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
8.Spell check your entire website in one go (spellr.us)
58 points by zemaj on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
9.The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing) (sethgodin.typepad.com)
55 points by peter123 on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
10. Why a Cambridge risk scholar thinks global self-destruction beats transformation (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 253 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.What is the minimum viable product? (venturehacks.com)
52 points by coglethorpe on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
11.Dave Shen: What I've Learned in Angel Investing (dshen.com)
51 points by ivankirigin on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
12.How Cash4Gold Works - From a Former Employee (complaintsboard.com)
50 points by releasedatez on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
13. Why Dollar Reserves Hit a 31-Year Low Despite Rising Treasury Holdings (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 115 days ago | hide | 68 comments
13.419 scammer chats with security company CEO (onlinearmorpersonalfirewall.blogspot.com)
48 points by bd on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
14.Seven Minute Abs - A/B testing in 7 minutes (rails) (github.com/paulmars)
41 points by socmoth on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
15.Google Image Search imgcolor= Parameter Allows Results Filtering by Color (images.google.com)
41 points by tdonia on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
16. 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
16.Rethinking rent: Maybe we should stop trying to be a nation of homeowners (boston.com)
37 points by robg on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
17.First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking (technologyreview.com)
33 points by chaostheory on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
18.Smart People Really Do Think Faster. (npr.org)
32 points by amichail on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. Why hypothesis and diagnosis will resist the coming AI wave ()
71 points by fin781 264 days ago | hide | 11 comments
19.Open Yale Courses - Game Theory (yale.edu)
31 points by Anon84 on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
20.TwitterAuth: Plugin for Near-Instant Twitter Rails Apps (intridea.com)
31 points by mbleigh on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
21.Tips for the Sophisticated Fugitive (nytimes.com)
30 points by robg on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
22. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.Failure is overrated, a redux (37signals.com)
29 points by johns on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
23.College Prestige "Lies" (overcomingbias.com)
28 points by quizbiz on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers’ Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers (techcrunch.com)
27 points by peter123 on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
25. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.Ask HN: Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? [ext]
26 points by erictobia on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
26.It’s easy to make something incredible. (unalone.tumblr.com)
26 points by dhotson on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
27.The Nasty Exploding Term Sheet (techcrunch.com)
25 points by vaksel on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
28. The dangerous delusion of high stock valuations during a Middle East war (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Do You Really Need a College Degree to Get a Programming Job? (javaworld.com)
23 points by estherschindler on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
29.Who Really Rules? (aaronsw.com)
23 points by twampss on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Ask YC: Where do you advertise online? [ext]
22 points by epi0Bauqu on March 23, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
31. The Provincial Incentive Loop: Decoding China’s Hyper-Competitive Industrial Scaling Model (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 220 days ago | hide | 175 comments

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