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1.		Press for Startups: 10 tips (david.weebly.com)
		49 points by drusenko on Feb 21, 2008 \| 8 comments
2.		Little Known 'Boring' Websites That Make Incredible Money With AdSense (nichegeek.com)
		48 points by asmosoinio on Feb 21, 2008 \| 36 comments
3.		Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App (highscalability.com)
		35 points by chaostheory on Feb 21, 2008 \| 18 comments
4.		Tuition free MIT? [NSFW] (greenspun.com)
		33 points by yummyfajitas on Feb 21, 2008 \| 19 comments
5.		Box.net Now Uses Scribd’s iPaper for Previews - Sorry, Adobe, but this thing just works better (mashable.com)
		26 points by raburmester on Feb 21, 2008 \| 18 comments
6.		Programming Is Like Sex (codesnipers.com)
		27 points by catalinist on Feb 21, 2008 \| 39 comments
7.		Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com (coordinatr.com)
		26 points by drm237 on Feb 21, 2008 \| 92 comments
8.		[On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy (37signals.com)
		22 points by jmorin007 on Feb 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
9.		OpenSolaris' Fielding leaves developer community, slams Sun (thestandard.com)
		21 points by ilamont on Feb 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
10.		Death of the Level Designer: Procedural Content Generation in Games (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
		17 points by sarosh on Feb 21, 2008 \| 4 comments
11.		Reg Braithwaite does Daily WTF (raganwald.com)
		17 points by bdfh42 on Feb 21, 2008 \| 5 comments
12.		The Art and Science of JavaScript Games (sitepoint.com)
		17 points by luccastera on Feb 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
13.		Video of a missile taking out the spy satellite. Welcome to the future. (breitbart.tv)
		17 points by ivankirigin on Feb 21, 2008 \| 8 comments
14.		Is Xobni the next Google? (davidadewumi.com)
		14 points by wumi on Feb 21, 2008 \| 22 comments
15.		Ask YC: do you use what you learned in school?
		14 points by supahfly_remix on Feb 21, 2008 \| 37 comments
16.		Seeking Technology Co-Founder (NYC)
		13 points by colellm on Feb 21, 2008 \| 49 comments
17.		Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain (nytimes.com)
		11 points by bootload on Feb 21, 2008 \| 12 comments
18.		Shotgun strategy for startup (no reg req'd) (ft.com)
		13 points by dingosa on Feb 21, 2008 \| 8 comments
19.		Rails framework founder likens Java to Cobol: "Still relevant in the sense that languages never die" (thestandard.com)
		13 points by ilamont on Feb 21, 2008 \| 6 comments
20.		Alexa Stops Counting- No One Notices (or cares?) (centernetworks.com)
		12 points by transburgh on Feb 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
21.		Microsoft Sings a New Tune—Wants to Play Nice With Open-Source (techcrunch.com)
		12 points by davidw on Feb 21, 2008 \| 5 comments
22.		Outsourcing: Get Over It. (thewealthyprogrammer.com)
		12 points by jdueck on Feb 21, 2008 \| 6 comments
23.		Robert Scoble interviews Trip Adler of Scribd (scribd.com)
		11 points by michelson01 on Feb 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
24.		Ask YC: Anyone using Google Gears or any other client-server sync solution for their startup webapp?
		10 points by nreece on Feb 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
25.		Next Ubuntu release to be called Intrepid Ibex (arstechnica.com)
		10 points by auferstehung on Feb 21, 2008 \| 4 comments
26.		Applying (Math) Theory at Microsoft (technologyreview.com)
		10 points by dskhatri on Feb 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		Shoes, a Ruby GUI toolkit, now has some sweet apps. (the-shoebox.org)
		9 points by jashkenas on Feb 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
28.		New class of attack on cryptosystems discovered (vid included) (princeton.edu)
		8 points by nickb on Feb 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
29.		Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic (nytimes.com)
		8 points by dskhatri on Feb 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
30.		Ask YC: Anyone in Chicago going to TechCocktail Tonight?
		8 points by pchristensen on Feb 21, 2008 \| 15 comments
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