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1.		These time-sucks will add 3 months to your launch date. (47hats.com)
		36 points by dshah on May 31, 2008 \| 8 comments
2.		Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (idc.ac.il)
		34 points by olavk on May 31, 2008 \| 9 comments
3.		MagLev is Gemstone/S for Ruby: 6x-60x faster VM, OODB, and more... (obiefernandez.com)
		33 points by gaika on May 31, 2008 \| 9 comments
4.		Google spotlights data center inner workings (cnet.com)
		30 points by paulsb on May 31, 2008
5.		Ask HN: how did you fix problems with bad sleep?
		26 points by Tichy on May 31, 2008 \| 55 comments
6.		An Open Letter to Facebook's Founder from Professor Davidoff (a lesson on deal terms) (nytimes.com)
		24 points by nickb on May 31, 2008 \| 4 comments
7.		Ask YC: Shared hosting providers that don't suck?
		19 points by kf on May 31, 2008 \| 34 comments
8.		The Long Strange Trip to Java (blinkenlights.com)
		17 points by shankys on May 31, 2008 \| 10 comments
9.		Yahoo's New BrowserPlus: Game Changer (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		15 points by wumi on May 31, 2008 \| 5 comments
10.		Ask HN: Fink or Macports?
		15 points by yourabi on May 31, 2008 \| 37 comments
11.		The Sky Is Falling (theatlantic.com)
		15 points by ivankirigin on May 31, 2008 \| 9 comments
12.		How to Recognize a Dark Age (loper-os.org)
		15 points by rplevy on May 31, 2008 \| 2 comments
13.		I together with other four friends just launched our new site: smuvi.com (more info in the comments)
		15 points by antirez on May 31, 2008 \| 5 comments
14.		Surprise of the Day: Maglev Ruby VM (drewblas.com)
		14 points by nickb on May 31, 2008
15.		War Without Soldiers (forbes.com)
		13 points by razorburn on May 31, 2008 \| 23 comments
16.		The Even Bigger News About Maglev (karmalab.org)
		13 points by kschrader on May 31, 2008
17.		Understanding Amazon Web Services (roughtype.com)
		13 points by razorburn on May 31, 2008 \| 1 comment
18.		An Inside Look at How we got TechCrunched (newscred.com)
		10 points by shafqat on May 31, 2008 \| 4 comments
19.		Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services (techcrunch.com)
		10 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 31, 2008 \| 4 comments
20.		Ask HN: Most desired programming skills in a startup?
		9 points by crashmoriarty on May 31, 2008 \| 24 comments
21.		Benchmarking the new Hunchentoot Common Lisp Web Server (rsynnott.com)
		8 points by nickb on May 31, 2008
22.		Wmd - “what you see is what you mean” Markdown editor written in JavaScript (wmd-editor.com)
		8 points by nickb on May 31, 2008 \| 5 comments
23.		Billboards That Look Back (nytimes.com)
		7 points by markbao on May 31, 2008 \| 2 comments
24.		World's largest and tallest spanning arch bridge (Dubai) (designgeist.org)
		7 points by themichael on May 31, 2008 \| 4 comments
25.		Ask HN: What self-study curriculum organizer tool do you use?
		6 points by YuriNiyazov on May 31, 2008 \| 9 comments
26.		Is "Scaling Engineer" a new job title? (highscalability.com)
		6 points by prakash on May 31, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		What domain of knowledge does my problem fall under?
		6 points by voidfiles on May 31, 2008 \| 10 comments
28.		Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All (wired.com)
		5 points by muriithi on May 31, 2008
29.		Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo (calacanis.com)
		5 points by nickb on May 31, 2008 \| 2 comments
30.		Sprinkle: easy Ruby on Rails VPS slice provisioning (redartisan.com)
		5 points by nickb on May 31, 2008 \| 1 comment
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