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1.		Mitch Kapor speaks at YC dinner (foundersatwork.com)
		30 points by luccastera on Aug 29, 2007 \| 3 comments
2.		Is college worth the cost? (yahoo.com)
		21 points by jyrzyk on Aug 29, 2007 \| 47 comments
3.		Experience with Amazon Flexible Payment Service
		21 points by tx on Aug 29, 2007 \| 12 comments
4.		ACM Queue - A Conversation with Joel Spolsky: What it takes to build a good software company (acmqueue.org)
		18 points by toffer on Aug 29, 2007
5.		"A sizable fraction of the world's crops" are from mutations induced via radiation (nytimes.com)
		17 points by brett on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
6.		HackrTrackr now has area based forums for Y Combinator Readers (hackrtrackr.com)
		17 points by dottertrotter on Aug 29, 2007 \| 15 comments
7.		"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good" (lifeonrails.org)
		15 points by r7000 on Aug 29, 2007 \| 17 comments
8.		My eyes hurt...
		16 points by kashif on Aug 29, 2007 \| 36 comments
9.		How to keep the lid on a good idea (ft.com)
		14 points by jl on Aug 29, 2007 \| 7 comments
10.		Facebook delivers ultimate humiliation to Google (valleywag.com)
		12 points by transburgh on Aug 29, 2007 \| 6 comments
11.		R6RS Ratified (Let the complaining begin) (r6rs.org)
		12 points by apgwoz on Aug 29, 2007 \| 20 comments
12.		How big Wikipedia would be if published as as printed volumes (wikipedia.org)
		11 points by pg on Aug 29, 2007 \| 5 comments
13.		Percentages for New Hires...
		9 points by far33d on Aug 29, 2007 \| 6 comments
14.		Review of Project Management Tools for Startups (learnsqlserver.com)
		9 points by bigtoga on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
15.		Black Plague and HIV resistance in Europe (eurekalert.org)
		8 points by aswanson on Aug 29, 2007 \| 14 comments
16.		Dot-com names get dottier: X is the new Z (latimes.com)
		8 points by zach on Aug 29, 2007 \| 9 comments
17.		Byte serving from PHP (coneural.org)
		6 points by terpua on Aug 29, 2007
18.		Mobile phones used to call owls (telegraph.co.uk)
		7 points by jyrzyk on Aug 29, 2007
19.		Why You Don't Want to Code for a Government Department (jgc.org)
		7 points by dfranke on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
20.		He made something lots of people want: "Adobe Hires Co-Inventor of Image Resizer Technology" (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by ivankirigin on Aug 29, 2007 \| 12 comments
21.		How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
		6 points by amichail on Aug 29, 2007 \| 9 comments
22.		New Application Engagement Metrics from Facebook (insidefacebook.com)
		5 points by joshwa on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
23.		Dealing with VCs: Negotiating the Option Pool (dorrianporter.typepad.com)
		5 points by raganwald on Aug 29, 2007
24.		The first stage in the acceptance of a new idea... (fridayreflections.typepad.com)
		5 points by nsimpson on Aug 29, 2007
25.		What Makes Twitter Twitter? (alexkrupp.typepad.com)
		5 points by Alex3917 on Aug 29, 2007 \| 3 comments
26.		Gateway's trajectory from startup to PC giant to also-ran (smh.com.au)
		5 points by drm237 on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
27.		Sprint Sucks And Their New Website Is Stupid (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by transburgh on Aug 29, 2007 \| 1 comment
28.		Sparklines for members of online communities (tipjoy.com)
		4 points by tipjoy on Aug 29, 2007 \| 2 comments
29.		If You Can't Beat Em, Join Digg (techcrunch.com)
		4 points by transburgh on Aug 29, 2007
30.		Now in its second decade, blogging has radically changed publishing (guardian.co.uk)
		4 points by kkim on Aug 29, 2007
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