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Stories from November 18, 2007

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1.		Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
		26 points by samson on Nov 18, 2007 \| 31 comments
2.		Scribd in the Wall Street Journal (scribd.com)
		22 points by macrov on Nov 18, 2007 \| 7 comments
3.		Saul Griffith on winning a MacArthur, entrepreneurship, and dumpster diving (cnn.com)
		21 points by toffer on Nov 18, 2007 \| 5 comments
4.		Ask YC: Getting In the Zone?
		21 points by Goladus on Nov 18, 2007 \| 27 comments
5.		Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() (beyond3d.com)
		17 points by hhm on Nov 18, 2007 \| 3 comments
6.		Einstein's Arrogance (overcomingbias.com)
		17 points by Neoryder on Nov 18, 2007 \| 17 comments
7.		Race, genes and intelligence (slate.com)
		15 points by Alex3917 on Nov 18, 2007 \| 18 comments
8.		Facebook's Brilliant but Evil design (bokardo.com)
		14 points by toffer on Nov 18, 2007 \| 4 comments
9.		Paying People to Argue With You (or How a Guy Found a Novel Use for Amazon's Mech Turk) (slashdot.org)
		12 points by chaostheory on Nov 18, 2007 \| 4 comments
10.		Knuth vs. Email (stanford.edu)
		12 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
11.		7 Handy CSS Hacks (noupe.com)
		11 points by charzom on Nov 18, 2007
12.		Firefox 3.0: 11,000 Bugs Fixed, and Counting (crn.com)
		10 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 \| 6 comments
13.		The god of small things - Hawking bets that Higgs particle will never be found (guardian.co.uk)
		9 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
14.		Upon further review, surfer's new Theory of Everything severely deficient (arstechnica.com)
		8 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 \| 14 comments
15.		Why Lisp is different (dyndns.org)
		8 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
16.		Artists tend to portray human faces with the Fourier statistics of complex natural scenes (scienceblogs.com)
		8 points by asdflkj on Nov 18, 2007
17.		Do you have a favorite tv show?
		8 points by rokhayakebe on Nov 18, 2007 \| 46 comments
18.		The BellKor solution to the Netflix Prize (att.com)
		7 points by blackswan on Nov 18, 2007 \| 4 comments
19.		Ask YC: Paul Graham's 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups: Which are no longer an issue when developing Facebook apps?
		7 points by amichail on Nov 18, 2007 \| 29 comments
20.		San Francisco Startup Weekend: HelpHookup.com (live progress) (helphookup.com)
		7 points by waleedka on Nov 18, 2007 \| 1 comment
21.		Adding Math to List of Security Threats - Adi Shamir (S in RSA) discovers a new bug (nytimes.com)
		6 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
22.		pg on Symbolics (news.ycombinator.com)
		5 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 \| 1 comment
23.		Google's Secret 10GbE Switch (nyquistcapital.com)
		5 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
24.		Interview with John Carmack, about Id Mobile (1up.com)
		4 points by hhm on Nov 18, 2007
25.		Your number's up (ft.com)
		3 points by davidw on Nov 18, 2007 \| 2 comments
26.		Prototype UI beta version (PWC reloaded) (xilinus.com)
		2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
27.		23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics (wired.com)
		2 points by amichail on Nov 18, 2007
28.		Javascript scoping problems? Is it Firefox, IE or... Prototype? (kunosure.blogspot.com)
		2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
29.		Firefox3 has too many bugs - 80% of 700 bugs marked as blockers will not be fixed in Firefox3 (techworld.com)
		2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 \| 1 comment
30.		Researchers use robotic cockroaches to control swarm behaviour (nytimes.com)
		2 points by hhm on Nov 18, 2007
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