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1.		The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get... From Google (sanfran.com)
		39 points by nreece on Feb 18, 2008 \| 17 comments
2.		News.YC statistics - community cohesion (clipboarded.blogspot.com)
		34 points by matstc on Feb 18, 2008 \| 34 comments
3.		Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups (nytimes.com)
		30 points by kul on Feb 18, 2008 \| 40 comments
4.		Microsoft releases specifications for binary formats (microsoft.com)
		31 points by mqt on Feb 18, 2008 \| 18 comments
5.		Nature rejects double-blind peer review - how corrupt is academia? (sciam.com)
		29 points by andreyf on Feb 18, 2008 \| 19 comments
6.		why * should buy * (google.com)
		27 points by nose on Feb 18, 2008 \| 9 comments
7.		There are many things you can say about Emacs... (pyside.blogspot.com)
		23 points by iamelgringo on Feb 18, 2008 \| 35 comments
8.		Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com)
		24 points by apu on Feb 18, 2008 \| 1 comment
9.		20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life (zenhabits.net)
		18 points by drm237 on Feb 18, 2008 \| 18 comments
10.		Into Thin Air: How I Spent $5,000 on Air and Made Fifty-Year Old Women Swoon (guykawasaki.com)
		19 points by drm237 on Feb 18, 2008 \| 19 comments
11.		Interview: TipJoy CEO, Abby Kirigin (knightknetwork.com)
		16 points by drm237 on Feb 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
12.		How To Go Slow. Do You Write Efficient Code? (artima.com)
		14 points by manny21 on Feb 18, 2008 \| 5 comments
13.		Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder (regdeveloper.co.uk)
		14 points by pmattos on Feb 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
14.		New SciAm Article on Limits of Quantum Computing (scottaaronson.com)
		13 points by rw on Feb 18, 2008 \| 2 comments
15.		Seaside-Style Programming in ErlyWeb (yarivsblog.com)
		13 points by llimllib on Feb 18, 2008
16.		Joe Hewitt may harm your computer (google.com)
		13 points by danw on Feb 18, 2008 \| 15 comments
17.		Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility (apcmag.com)
		12 points by iamelgringo on Feb 18, 2008
18.		GMail Task List Feature (zdnet.com)
		12 points by aneesh on Feb 18, 2008 \| 6 comments
19.		Ask YC: Anyone using Lua for web apps?
		11 points by danw on Feb 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
20.		Girls & Math: How It Works (xkcd.com)
		11 points by getp on Feb 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
21.		Cool use of Monads: Probabilistic computing. (oregonstate.edu)
		9 points by yummyfajitas on Feb 18, 2008 \| 4 comments
22.		Gmail's Humble Beginning (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		10 points by bootload on Feb 18, 2008
23.		Ask YC: Users don't like creative founders, right?
		10 points by amichail on Feb 18, 2008 \| 21 comments
24.		Inside the Bizarre World of Japanese Pickup Schools (wired.com)
		10 points by pius on Feb 18, 2008 \| 15 comments
25.		Running Linux apps on Windows using andLinux (andlinux.org)
		9 points by iamelgringo on Feb 18, 2008 \| 3 comments
26.		The Birth of the Political Long Tail (readwriteweb.com)
		9 points by terpua on Feb 18, 2008 \| 2 comments
27.		10 web trends that should die - article is from 2005 but could have been written today (blogoscoped.com)
		8 points by edw519 on Feb 18, 2008 \| 12 comments
28.		A Weekend Incubator for Facebook Apps - Feb. 22nd (selfdebugging.com)
		8 points by waleedka on Feb 18, 2008 \| 1 comment
29.		WikiLeaks Under Fire (slashdot.org)
		8 points by dskhatri on Feb 18, 2008 \| 1 comment
30.		Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free ("free = not valuable") (anamazingmind.com)
		8 points by nickb on Feb 18, 2008 \| 7 comments
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