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1.		Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? (nytimes.com)
		20 points by pg on April 16, 2007 \| 10 comments
2.		Getting acquired by Google isn't always that great (flickr.com)
		19 points by natrius on April 16, 2007 \| 8 comments
3.		Reddit: Language vs. Platform (codinghorror.com)
		18 points by mattjaynes on April 16, 2007 \| 6 comments
4.		Polarize Me - If you want people to like you, first decide who needs to hate you (fastcompany.com)
		15 points by blader on April 16, 2007 \| 10 comments
5.		You and Your (Great) Research (paulgraham.com)
		15 points by bootload on April 16, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		YC startup launches: Project Wedding (projectwedding.com)
		16 points by herdrick on April 16, 2007 \| 13 comments
7.		"Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp" (secretgeek.net)
		16 points by mattculbreth on April 16, 2007 \| 12 comments
8.		Unicode and Character Sets (joelonsoftware.com)
		12 points by bootload on April 16, 2007
9.		Movable walls (joelonsoftware.com)
		9 points by bootload on April 16, 2007 \| 6 comments
10.		Y Combinator continued (venturebeat.com)
		10 points by python_kiss on April 16, 2007 \| 8 comments
11.		Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl (billhails.net)
		8 points by staunch on April 16, 2007 \| 2 comments
12.		Scaling to multiple databases with Rails (loudthinking.com)
		8 points by dawie on April 16, 2007 \| 3 comments
13.		news.yc leaders' average points per submission
		8 points by brett on April 16, 2007 \| 20 comments
14.		How to Have a Business Conversation - Ben Stein (yahoo.com)
		7 points by brett on April 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
15.		3 YC Companies That Have Gained Some "Traction" (compete.com)
		7 points by staunch on April 16, 2007 \| 4 comments
16.		What is your stimulant of choice to keep you working through the night?
		7 points by ACSparks on April 16, 2007 \| 28 comments
17.		Zillow Becomes Illegal in Arizona (startupmeme.com)
		7 points by usablecontent on April 16, 2007
18.		Microsoft Silverlight Takes On Adobe's Flash (readwriteweb.com)
		7 points by dawie on April 16, 2007
19.		Cool new technology - Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by gaz on April 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
20.		Capital Into Code (joelonsoftware.com)
		5 points by bootload on April 16, 2007 \| 4 comments
21.		Is there a list of the programming languages and environments YC acceptees have used on their applications?
		5 points by dottertrotter on April 16, 2007 \| 16 comments
22.		What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?
		5 points by bootload on April 16, 2007 \| 9 comments
23.		Google's Matt Cutts on hidden links (mattcutts.com)
		4 points by jcwentz on April 16, 2007
24.		How Fedex Came to Be [PDF] (fedex.com)
		4 points by nostrademons on April 16, 2007 \| 2 comments
25.		Research In Motion use LEGO Machines to Test Blackberry (pcstats.com)
		3 points by gibsonf1 on April 16, 2007
26.		They're done working for Google. What now? (valleywag.com)
		3 points by danielha on April 16, 2007
27.		Writing numbers (23 or Twenty Three)? (useit.com)
		3 points by bootload on April 16, 2007
28.		Relative value of open source to open services (factoryjoe.com)
		3 points by bootload on April 16, 2007
29.		Dodgeball founders quit Google (startupmeme.com)
		3 points by usablecontent on April 16, 2007
30.		The Myth of Big Orgs and Innovation (scottberkun.com)
		3 points by artixan on April 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
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