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1.		Software - How Software Companies Die (apocalypse.org)
		25 points by rams on Aug 18, 2007 \| 5 comments
2.		Are We Failing Our Geniuses? (time.com)
		22 points by karthikv on Aug 18, 2007 \| 48 comments
3.		YC's Terms of Use: "When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page." (ycombinator.com)
		19 points by henning on Aug 18, 2007 \| 4 comments
4.		Liberal Arts Professors on Attending Grad School--Is it the same in Comp Sci? (swarthmore.edu)
		18 points by vlad on Aug 18, 2007 \| 17 comments
5.		Am I Too Old To Be A Programmer? (thecodist.com)
		15 points by nickb on Aug 18, 2007 \| 7 comments
6.		Using Data to "Brute Force" Hard Problems in Vision and Graphics (Google TechTalk) (video.google.com)
		13 points by amichail on Aug 18, 2007 \| 3 comments
7.		The Cost of Losing a Developer (david-carr.blogspot.com)
		9 points by nickb on Aug 18, 2007 \| 2 comments
8.		Coding Horror: Thirteen Blog Cliches (codinghorror.com)
		11 points by farmer on Aug 18, 2007 \| 1 comment
9.		Embarassing Bill Gates video (ifilm.com)
		10 points by aandreev on Aug 18, 2007 \| 5 comments
10.		The Multicore Kerfuffle and a Dose of Reality (marknelson.us)
		8 points by iamelgringo on Aug 18, 2007 \| 3 comments
11.		Democracies with two major parties invariably promote discrimination and brainwashing.
		8 points by amichail on Aug 18, 2007 \| 12 comments
12.		How Startups Get A Foot In The Door (informationweek.com)
		8 points by drm237 on Aug 18, 2007
13.		Google Working on Social Network Aggregator (25hoursaday.com)
		8 points by bootload on Aug 18, 2007
14.		Five Quick Suggestions to Improve Twitter (centernetworks.com)
		7 points by transburgh on Aug 18, 2007
15.		New SAT: Write Long, Badly and Prosper (jewishworldreview.com)
		6 points by jsnx on Aug 18, 2007
16.		Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees (marknelson.us)
		6 points by farmer on Aug 18, 2007
17.		Weeks of hell at Opera Software (aftenposten.no)
		5 points by ks on Aug 18, 2007 \| 2 comments
18.		Registering a domain in .it - staring down the mouth of Italian bureaucracy (welton.it)
		5 points by davidw on Aug 18, 2007
19.		Fast Company: Man vs. Machine - Mahalo (fastcompany.com)
		4 points by staunch on Aug 18, 2007
20.		Unstoppable Subversion (collab.net)
		4 points by nickb on Aug 18, 2007 \| 7 comments
21.		List of Lisp-based OSes (cbbrowne.com)
		4 points by nickb on Aug 18, 2007
22.		Hacker News Posting Guidelines?
		4 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 18, 2007 \| 5 comments
23.		Revenge by Gadget: the emergence of devices that let people interfere with other people's devices (oreilly.com)
		4 points by ivankirigin on Aug 18, 2007
24.		LA Times Loses It Over Google (webpronews.com)
		4 points by transburgh on Aug 18, 2007
25.		Universal Declaration of Human Rights (un.org)
		3 points by kf on Aug 18, 2007 \| 1 comment
26.		Michael Moritz: The house that Google, Yahoo, and YouTube built (valleywag.com)
		3 points by transburgh on Aug 18, 2007
27.		Milton Friedman, Meet Richard Feynman (slate.com)
		2 points by davidw on Aug 18, 2007
28.		Paul Hsieh: Misconceptions about rand(). (azillionmonkeys.com)
		2 points by mk on Aug 18, 2007
29.		Is there really such a thing as "infinity"? (toronto.edu)
		2 points by nickb on Aug 18, 2007
30.		A Desk is a Dangerous Place to View the World ... (fridayreflections.typepad.com)
		2 points by nreece on Aug 18, 2007
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