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1.		Storage Space, The Final Frontier: Amazon EC2 adds persistent disks (aws.typepad.com)
		82 points by RyanGWU82 on April 14, 2008 \| 16 comments
2.		The Young Man's Business Model (paultyma.blogspot.com)
		67 points by zinxq on April 14, 2008 \| 17 comments
3.		Interview with reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (mentalfloss.com)
		58 points by Sam_Odio on April 14, 2008 \| 9 comments
4.		Donald Knuth's letter about teaching O notation in calculus classes (micromath.wordpress.com)
		50 points by plinkplonk on April 14, 2008 \| 25 comments
5.		I built it but they wouldn't come!
		44 points by hashbucket on April 14, 2008 \| 72 comments
6.		Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?
		32 points by dangoldin on April 14, 2008 \| 56 comments
7.		The Internet, a collection of computer networks that already has hundreds of thousands of users. (nytimes.com)
		28 points by Sam_Odio on April 14, 2008 \| 14 comments
8.		Urgency is poisonous? (37signals.com)
		29 points by mattjung on April 14, 2008 \| 22 comments
9.		Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 (ok, it's missing BigTable) (waxy.org)
		29 points by toffer on April 14, 2008 \| 1 comment
10.		Lisp as Blub (damienkatz.net)
		28 points by mqt on April 14, 2008 \| 31 comments
11.		Ask PG: And we're back...What happened?
		27 points by aston on April 14, 2008 \| 9 comments
12.		Werner Vogels on Amazon EC2's new persistent storage feature (allthingsdistributed.com)
		26 points by RyanGWU82 on April 14, 2008 \| 7 comments
13.		Why Are Manhole Covers Round? (on Microsoft brainteaser job interviews) (hachettebookgroupusa.com)
		24 points by gruseom on April 14, 2008 \| 28 comments
14.		Probabilistic Assertions: Crashing When Something Feels Wrong (spiteful.com)
		24 points by slackerIII on April 14, 2008 \| 8 comments
15.		7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do (enfranchisedmind.com)
		23 points by nickb on April 14, 2008 \| 3 comments
16.		OpenMac - $399 Leopard-capable PC (psystar.com)
		23 points by nickb on April 14, 2008 \| 23 comments
17.		The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software (readwriteweb.com)
		21 points by noname99 on April 14, 2008
18.		Tips on how to work smarter from Ricardo Semler (37signals.com)
		21 points by naish on April 14, 2008 \| 4 comments
19.		30K application lines + 110K testing lines: Evidence of...? (knowing.net)
		21 points by nickb on April 14, 2008 \| 19 comments
20.		Open Source Rails (opensourcerails.com)
		20 points by nickb on April 14, 2008 \| 1 comment
21.		How much money should we raise? Two founders, two investors, and guidelines (venturehacks.com)
		19 points by rantfoil on April 14, 2008
22.		"... and now you’re a sharecropper on the Google plantation." (tbray.org)
		18 points by pius on April 14, 2008 \| 16 comments
23.		Ask HN: Lead generation? (consulting)
		18 points by goofygrin on April 14, 2008 \| 13 comments
24.		Ask YC: Accounting suggestions - how do you do it?
		17 points by ericb on April 14, 2008 \| 18 comments
25.		How to get over the fear and start your own business (16thletter.com)
		17 points by webwatch on April 14, 2008 \| 5 comments
26.		Love Him Or Leave Him, Some Solid Advice From Guy Kawasaki (howtosplitanatom.com)
		17 points by socalsamba on April 14, 2008 \| 2 comments
27.		Ask YC: Part-time consulting while working on a startup, good idea?
		17 points by richesh on April 14, 2008 \| 21 comments
28.		Pageflakes Acquired By Live Universe (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by ciscoriordan on April 14, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		The difference between undefined and null in Javascript (saladwithsteve.com)
		16 points by rantfoil on April 14, 2008 \| 2 comments
30.		Focus on making a kickass UI, performance be damned (for now). (joelonsoftware.com)
		16 points by pius on April 14, 2008 \| 3 comments
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