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1.
Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search (yahoo.com)
81 points by snewe on July 28, 2008 | 107 comments
2.
Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You (businessweek.com)
69 points by nreece on July 28, 2008 | 25 comments
3.
Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly (spreeder.com)
64 points by iamelgringo on July 28, 2008 | 45 comments
4.
Google says there are now 10^12 unique URLs. I am proud to announce the 2nd trillion. (ianab.com)
44 points by bdr on July 28, 2008 | 32 comments
5.
How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses (blogmaverick.com)
43 points by drm237 on July 28, 2008 | 44 comments
6.
When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition (cnet.com)
39 points by nickb on July 28, 2008 | 62 comments
7.
A quiet investor becomes a media powerhouse everyone and nobody knows (nytimes.com)
33 points by robg on July 28, 2008 | 12 comments
8.
How Skype gets around firewalls (heise-online.co.uk)
36 points by soundsop on July 28, 2008 | 13 comments
9.
Beyond REST (schachter.org)
30 points by dhotson on July 28, 2008 | 6 comments
10.
42.zip: A single 42,374-byte zip file that uncompresses to one million 4.5GB files (4.5PB) (unforgettable.dk)
33 points by soundsop on July 28, 2008 | 17 comments
11.
Average environments beget average work (37signals.com)
33 points by pbnaidu on July 28, 2008 | 8 comments
12.
No, your code is not so great that it doesn’t need comments (uncommons.org)
32 points by nickb on July 28, 2008 | 8 comments
13.
Alan Kay on How We Teach Computing (amazon.com)
28 points by Anon84 on July 28, 2008
14.
Chef David Chang on failure, Thoreau, and vegetarians (37signals.com)
26 points by spydez on July 28, 2008 | 31 comments
15.
Y Combinator Challenge #6 - More variants of CRM (astartupaday.wordpress.com)
26 points by jmorin007 on July 28, 2008 | 7 comments
16.
Let’s talk about DVCS (b-list.org)
23 points by niels on July 28, 2008 | 11 comments
17.
Google Code Jam: Numbers (sonyalabs.com)
24 points by rguzman on July 28, 2008 | 3 comments
18.
Ask YC: Where's the escape hatch? I'd like to leave the US, but to where?
21 points by isoadventure on July 28, 2008 | 101 comments
19.
Knol getting preferential placement in search results? (25hoursaday.com)
21 points by soundsop on July 28, 2008 | 16 comments
20.
Summers Vindicated (again) (marginalrevolution.com)
17 points by ivankirigin on July 28, 2008 | 27 comments
21.
Returning The iPhone After Two Weeks Of Daily Use (washingtonpost.com)
19 points by rami on July 28, 2008 | 13 comments
22.
Reply to Scobleizer's "Silicon Valley VC Disease" (scobleizer.com)
18 points by 13ren on July 28, 2008 | 2 comments
23.
Update on Linux/Foxconn issue by Ubuntu dev. Matthew Garrett (mjg59.livejournal.com)
18 points by mdemare on July 28, 2008 | 8 comments
24.
Out-of-print math books (terrytao.wordpress.com)
17 points by hhm on July 28, 2008 | 5 comments
25.
Why trying to Out-Google Google is a search for FAIL (and how to actually do it) (thisisgoingtobebig.com)
14 points by greatreorx on July 28, 2008 | 3 comments
26.
Flipping Web Sites, Selling the Niche (nytimes.com)
14 points by markbao on July 28, 2008 | 4 comments
27.
Got Flash? Got Silverlight? Make a FlashLight (innerfence.com)
14 points by delconte on July 28, 2008 | 7 comments
28.
Pysimpledb - Python Simple Database Access (mikusa.com)
12 points by iamelgringo on July 28, 2008 | 7 comments
29.
Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? (searchengineland.com)
14 points by nickb on July 28, 2008 | 23 comments
30.
Twitter engineers learning Scala (gracelessfailures.com)
13 points by jorgeortiz85 on July 28, 2008

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