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1.
Good code, bad code. The only truth. [comic] (osnews.com)
56 points by hollywoodcole on Feb 5, 2008 | 21 comments
2.
SearchYC Presents: Best of Hacker News (searchyc.com)
50 points by chengmi on Feb 5, 2008 | 26 comments
3.
MacBook Air Haters: Suck My Dick (wilshipley.com)
39 points by __ on Feb 5, 2008 | 20 comments
4.
Arc - An Unappreciated Approach to Language Design (oreillynet.com)
38 points by jmorin007 on Feb 5, 2008 | 4 comments
5.
Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view (pmarca.com)
35 points by __ on Feb 5, 2008 | 12 comments
6.
YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing (reble.fm)
27 points by nmeyer on Feb 5, 2008 | 31 comments
7.
Operations Mantras from a MySQL DBA at SixApart (dormando.livejournal.com)
28 points by toffer on Feb 5, 2008
8.
Years of irrelevance (37signals.com)
24 points by pius on Feb 5, 2008 | 9 comments
9.
Is it just me or all academic course management systems(CMS) suck (aka Blackboard, webct, moodle)
22 points by lyime on Feb 5, 2008 | 32 comments
10.
Unboxing a never-opened Apple IIc - photoset (flickr.com)
22 points by joshwa on Feb 5, 2008 | 5 comments
11.
Linus Torvalds calls OS X's file-system "utter crap" (theage.com.au)
20 points by nreece on Feb 5, 2008 | 14 comments
12.
Color for coders (sitepoint.com)
20 points by garbowza on Feb 5, 2008 | 3 comments
13.
Thin is in: Ars Technica reviews the MacBook Air (arstechnica.com)
17 points by auferstehung on Feb 5, 2008 | 20 comments
14.
A different kind of Arc challenge: a quest for a true 100 year language (offbytwo.com)
19 points by cstejerean on Feb 5, 2008 | 24 comments
15.
Coding Horror: Skill Disparities in Programming (codinghorror.com)
17 points by raju on Feb 5, 2008 | 9 comments
16.
Outside.in switches to Rails (blog.outside.in)
14 points by toffer on Feb 5, 2008 | 3 comments
17.
The 'pre Arc' Arc (a.k.a. 'rep') (sean-ross.blogspot.com)
14 points by dpapathanasiou on Feb 5, 2008 | 2 comments
18.
Nigerian 5-Year-Olds Repair OLPCs in "Hospital" (thedailygreen.com)
14 points by nreece on Feb 5, 2008 | 2 comments
19.
You Be The VC -- Your Idea + Our Support = Your Company (youbethevc.com)
13 points by nreece on Feb 5, 2008 | 15 comments
20.
How do you design user authentication for an app that runs on the open web and social networks?
13 points by jotto on Feb 5, 2008 | 5 comments
21.
Linus Torvalds Interview, Part II (linux-foundation.org)
10 points by cawel on Feb 5, 2008 | 2 comments
22.
Google offers Yahoo help to deflect Microsoft's bid (iht.com)
9 points by cawel on Feb 5, 2008 | 3 comments
23.
Complete Introduction to git (upatras.gr)
10 points by imgabe on Feb 5, 2008 | 1 comment
24.
The American Conservative publishes Sibel Edmonds' story of corruption at Washington's highest levels (amconmag.com)
10 points by andreyf on Feb 5, 2008 | 2 comments
25.
The Programmer's Prenup (cio.com)
9 points by hollywoodcole on Feb 5, 2008
26.
Jerry Yang to employees: We're looking at other options (zdnet.com)
8 points by edw519 on Feb 5, 2008
27.
 A Wiki in Arc (fixingsoftware.blogspot.com)
8 points by nickb on Feb 5, 2008
28.
Your harddrive *will* fail - it's just a question of when (successfulsoftware.net)
7 points by nickb on Feb 5, 2008 | 2 comments
29.
Excellent answer to "Take the Arc test" challenge -- framework in 9 lines of code (arclanguage.org)
7 points by nreece on Feb 5, 2008
30.
A Startup in the Cloud (peteryared.blogspot.com)
7 points by bayareaguy on Feb 5, 2008 | 1 comment

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