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1.		Optimize for now! (37signals.com)
		72 points by naish on March 6, 2008 \| 34 comments
2.		Using Microsoft Excel as a 3D Game Engine (gamasutra.com)
		68 points by hhm on March 6, 2008 \| 8 comments
3.		Apple iPhone SDK Event: iFund - $100 Million for iPhone Devs (gizmodo.com)
		57 points by Readmore on March 6, 2008 \| 29 comments
4.		YC Help: I need Acquisition Advice
		53 points by nextmoveone on March 6, 2008 \| 38 comments
5.		3. 2. 1. Contact. The Google Contacts API has landed (googledataapis.blogspot.com)
		33 points by hwork on March 6, 2008 \| 13 comments
6.		FYI: Last time someone made a $100MM fund to boost development it didn't turn out all that great (nytimes.com)
		29 points by alaskamiller on March 6, 2008 \| 26 comments
7.		Python AJAX Server (pyxer.net)
		25 points by muriithi on March 6, 2008 \| 6 comments
8.		Hacker vs Engineer - Know The Difference! (pchristensen.com)
		24 points by imgabe on March 6, 2008 \| 29 comments
9.		If Version Control Systems were Airlines (complete.org)
		24 points by mqt on March 6, 2008
10.		Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?
		23 points by tzury on March 6, 2008 \| 66 comments
11.		CMU team builds robotic snake (cmu.edu)
		19 points by streblo on March 6, 2008 \| 5 comments
12.		Steve Jobs: Flash video not suitable for iPhone (cbc.ca)
		19 points by chengmi on March 6, 2008 \| 10 comments
13.		Warren Buffett is now the richest man in the world (beating Bill Gates after 13 years). (forbes.com)
		18 points by falsestprophet on March 6, 2008 \| 18 comments
14.		Shared Web Hosting: Who Is Good?
		17 points by motoko on March 6, 2008 \| 18 comments
15.		Ask YC: Getting involved in open source projects
		15 points by jaydub on March 6, 2008 \| 16 comments
16.		Python Montage Code for Displaying Arrays (datawrangling.com)
		14 points by polar on March 6, 2008
17.		Why Internet Explorer 8 still Sucks Balls (windowhaxor.net)
		14 points by pavs on March 6, 2008 \| 21 comments
18.		Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps "jump the shark?" (andrewchen.typepad.com)
		13 points by nickb on March 6, 2008 \| 2 comments
19.		Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging (codinghorror.com)
		12 points by juanpablo on March 6, 2008 \| 8 comments
20.		Ask.com gets a makeover, lays off 40 (cnn.com)
		12 points by moog on March 6, 2008 \| 5 comments
21.		Ask YC: To continue, or not to continue ... how do you know?
		12 points by NSX2 on March 6, 2008 \| 47 comments
22.		Switching between "school mode" and "startup mode"
		12 points by kingnothing on March 6, 2008 \| 19 comments
23.		Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB (zdnet.com)
		11 points by edw519 on March 6, 2008 \| 3 comments
24.		So far, little demand for Silverlight developers (thestandard.com)
		11 points by ilamont on March 6, 2008 \| 10 comments
25.		IE8 (beta) is for us JavaScripters (ejohn.org)
		10 points by bdfh42 on March 6, 2008 \| 4 comments
26.		The New York Times Perl Profiler (nytimes.com)
		10 points by mqt on March 6, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam (arstechnica.com)
		10 points by auferstehung on March 6, 2008
28.		Have a great iPhone idea? Apply now to KPCB's iFund! (kpcb.com)
		10 points by alaskamiller on March 6, 2008 \| 3 comments
29.		Web 2.0's Long Road to IPOs (businessweek.com)
		10 points by mqt on March 6, 2008 \| 2 comments
30.		Swiss graphic design: a history in photos (or, where trendy web designers get ideas to steal from) (flickr.com)
		8 points by henning on March 6, 2008 \| 1 comment
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