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Stories from March 16, 2008

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1.		JPMorgan buys Bear Stearns for $2/sh, ~$236mm total (nytimes.com)
		56 points by ctkrohn on March 16, 2008 \| 67 comments
2.		Pycon 2008 Disappointment (groups.google.com)
		43 points by nickb on March 16, 2008 \| 8 comments
3.		Ask YC: what's the best way to model a threaded comment system like YC?
		30 points by pibefision on March 16, 2008 \| 28 comments
4.		Observation: Lucene rocks
		31 points by henning on March 16, 2008 \| 14 comments
5.		How To Be Creative (changethis.com)
		30 points by ivankirigin on March 16, 2008 \| 16 comments
6.		Best Books For a Startup?
		26 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 16, 2008 \| 32 comments
7.		Microsoft logged everyone's MSN IM conversations for a month (zdnet.com)
		26 points by nickb on March 16, 2008 \| 16 comments
8.		Web 3.0 Demo (cortex-intelligence.com)
		25 points by getp on March 16, 2008 \| 26 comments
9.		What I’ve Learned From Programming In Lisp (martincmartin.com)
		20 points by drm237 on March 16, 2008 \| 6 comments
10.		Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?
		20 points by kashif on March 16, 2008 \| 21 comments
11.		A look at Yahoo Buzz after 2 weeks (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by dkasper on March 16, 2008 \| 4 comments
12.		Ask YC: Are you working on your startup/side-project strictly in your spare time?
		17 points by tonyvt2005 on March 16, 2008 \| 54 comments
13.		Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
		15 points by snowbird122 on March 16, 2008 \| 44 comments
14.		SXSW: Where were the Europeans? (thenextweb.org)
		11 points by spif on March 16, 2008 \| 5 comments
15.		Ask YC: How do you read YC?
		10 points by adduc on March 16, 2008 \| 22 comments
16.		8aweek now grades your web browsing health (8aweek.com)
		9 points by garbowza on March 16, 2008 \| 1 comment
17.		Ask YC: Can a startup entrepreneur not be a coder?
		9 points by deltapoint on March 16, 2008 \| 19 comments
18.		Merit-Based News has arrived: Social news fueled by the submitters' puzzle solving abilities.
		9 points by amichail on March 16, 2008 \| 15 comments
19.		Downloading YouTube videos with GNU awk (catonmat.net)
		8 points by mqt on March 16, 2008 \| 3 comments
20.		Ask YC: Do you think Rich Internet Applications (Adobe FLEX, MS Silverlight) are going to take off?
		8 points by Flemlord on March 16, 2008 \| 33 comments
21.		Fortune interviews Steve Jobs for its Most Admired Companies issue (cnn.com)
		8 points by blackswan on March 16, 2008 \| 3 comments
22.		Panda3D - Open Source Python 3D Engine (panda3d.net)
		7 points by chaostheory on March 16, 2008
23.		The Zen of GUI Programming (c-sharpcorner.com)
		7 points by nreece on March 16, 2008 \| 3 comments
24.		Apple to iPhone devs: Keep on developing for Jailbroken iPhones guys! (zdnet.com)
		7 points by vlad on March 16, 2008 \| 5 comments
25.		Numbrosia - Merit Based News (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by brett on March 16, 2008 \| 6 comments
26.		The Myth of Web 2.0 Non-participation (pic) (insightbuzz.com)
		6 points by nreece on March 16, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		Ask YC: Is web 2.0 over?
		6 points by deltapoint on March 16, 2008 \| 17 comments
28.		What Makes People Give? (like A/B testing for philanthropy economics) (nytimes.com)
		6 points by gojomo on March 16, 2008
29.		The future is parallel - start with string searches on multiple cores (ddj.com)
		6 points by bdfh42 on March 16, 2008
30.		Ask YC: Startup idea
		6 points by wave on March 16, 2008 \| 20 comments
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