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1.		Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight (facebook.com)
		93 points by edw519 on May 15, 2008 \| 42 comments
2.		Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (longnow.org)
		59 points by ca98am79 on May 15, 2008 \| 15 comments
3.		Advice to the Bright and Young (daniellefong.com)
		56 points by DaniFong on May 15, 2008 \| 16 comments
4.		Adobe Introduces P2P Flash Player, Kills CDNs (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		53 points by paulsb on May 15, 2008 \| 34 comments
5.		Teach yourself you to Hack in 6-9 months (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)
		45 points by iamelgringo on May 15, 2008 \| 38 comments
6.		Dear Yahoo! You're Fired! (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by statikpulse on May 15, 2008 \| 20 comments
7.		The Gifted Adult: Self-Knowledge and Self-Esteem (stephanietolan.com)
		41 points by girk on May 15, 2008 \| 14 comments
8.		Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework (code.google.com)
		37 points by auston on May 15, 2008 \| 17 comments
9.		Ask YC: How do you achieve laser focus and concentration?
		35 points by markbao on May 15, 2008 \| 39 comments
10.		Using Git as a versioned data store in Python (newartisans.com)
		34 points by baha_man on May 15, 2008 \| 6 comments
11.		Ask YC: Learning to hack...
		29 points by rjett on May 15, 2008 \| 51 comments
12.		Why Arc is bad for exploratory programming (arcfn.com)
		28 points by mqt on May 15, 2008 \| 73 comments
13.		Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum?
		27 points by hashtable on May 15, 2008 \| 67 comments
14.		Ask YC: "Can a 40 year old, married with 3 children, start a start-up?"
		27 points by whiten on May 15, 2008 \| 72 comments
15.		CBS buying CNET for $1.8 billion (alleyinsider.com)
		25 points by daviday on May 15, 2008 \| 2 comments
16.		The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces (readwriteweb.com)
		24 points by breily on May 15, 2008 \| 8 comments
17.		Ask YC: Getting Involved in Open Source
		22 points by bobj on May 15, 2008 \| 11 comments
18.		Exploiting Network Cards (links.org)
		20 points by davidw on May 15, 2008 \| 5 comments
19.		Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
		19 points by stevenboudreau on May 15, 2008 \| 35 comments
20.		Build and host a processing.js app in your browser with AppJet (appjet.net)
		15 points by aaroniba on May 15, 2008 \| 8 comments
21.		Sleep less (with no performance hit) (slate.com)
		16 points by smanek on May 15, 2008 \| 5 comments
22.		The Silicon Valley apparatus behind Barack Obama's fundraising (theatlantic.com)
		14 points by gruseom on May 15, 2008 \| 2 comments
23.		Google maps suddenly becomes more than just a map (techcrunch.com)
		15 points by Sam_Odio on May 15, 2008 \| 2 comments
24.		Volunteering opportunities
		14 points by sangguine on May 15, 2008 \| 14 comments
25.		Processing.js Aftermath (ejohn.org)
		14 points by bdfh42 on May 15, 2008 \| 2 comments
26.		8 Things You Should Know About Amazon EC2 (leavingcorporate.com)
		14 points by garbowza on May 15, 2008 \| 5 comments
27.		NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks (arstechnica.com)
		12 points by naish on May 15, 2008 \| 4 comments
28.		The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect (techcrunch.com)
		12 points by kyro on May 15, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		JIT Compilation in GNU CLISP (groups.google.com)
		12 points by kirubakaran on May 15, 2008
30.		Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (scribd.com)
		12 points by dpapathanasiou on May 15, 2008 \| 11 comments
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