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1.		I'm Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn't Include Any Mention of SEO (seomoz.org)
		59 points by utnick on April 1, 2008 \| 34 comments
2.		40 percent of college students say their next computer purchase will be a Mac (appleinsider.com)
		57 points by pg on April 1, 2008 \| 70 comments
3.		Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? (viemu.com)
		56 points by alex_c on April 1, 2008 \| 52 comments
4.		Growing a Language by Guy Steele (catonmat.net)
		40 points by sicsh on April 1, 2008 \| 7 comments
5.		COBOL ON COGS :-) (coboloncogs.org)
		40 points by tandaraho on April 1, 2008 \| 11 comments
6.		You only get one lifetime to do what you want to do. Touching photo essay. (guardian.co.uk)
		36 points by FleursDuMal on April 1, 2008 \| 9 comments
7.		A cellphone with no flips, no folds - just a very low price (iht.com)
		35 points by prakash on April 1, 2008 \| 19 comments
8.		A Plan for Scams: A proposal to put 419 scammers out of business for good (dfranke.us)
		34 points by dfranke on April 1, 2008 \| 9 comments
9.		New Lisp and Functional Programming Comic Novella
		30 points by drcode on April 1, 2008 \| 7 comments
10.		Hacker News Firefox Extension
		32 points by marrone on April 1, 2008 \| 10 comments
11.		Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. (dashes.com)
		32 points by ivankirigin on April 1, 2008 \| 7 comments
12.		37Signals Amazon S3 Stats and Costs (37signals.com)
		30 points by bmaier on April 1, 2008
13.		Bug 439858: swf mozilla plugin - no youtube for Linus Torvalds' wife (redhat.com)
		28 points by nickb on April 1, 2008 \| 9 comments
14.		Ask YC: What are you working on right now?
		27 points by robmnl on April 1, 2008 \| 158 comments
15.		Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java (damienkatz.net)
		26 points by iamelgringo on April 1, 2008 \| 9 comments
16.		Fortress is released (sun.com)
		16 points by dfranke on April 1, 2008 \| 14 comments
17.		Did you know that each integer in a PHP array takes 68 bytes of storage? (pankaj-k.net)
		16 points by nickb on April 1, 2008 \| 4 comments
18.		How to get profiled on TechCrunch (communityguy.com)
		14 points by theoneill on April 1, 2008 \| 3 comments
19.		Scribd holds anniversary at investor's $22 million mansion (valleywag.com)
		14 points by snowmaker on April 1, 2008 \| 25 comments
20.		Xobni announces support for Pine (xobni.com)
		16 points by solfox on April 1, 2008 \| 11 comments
21.		Self-Discipline: Hard Work (stevepavlina.com)
		12 points by getp on April 1, 2008 \| 6 comments
22.		Perception, creativity and paint color (37signals.com)
		11 points by naish on April 1, 2008 \| 1 comment
23.		Why you don’t need a Venture Capitalist (indiestartups.com)
		11 points by idigit on April 1, 2008 \| 3 comments
24.		Google Docs now runs offline with Gears (ajaxian.com)
		10 points by bdfh42 on April 1, 2008 \| 2 comments
25.		The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought (nytimes.com)
		9 points by robg on April 1, 2008 \| 4 comments
26.		Ask YC: I'm about to give up on computing altogether and pursue a career as a pharmacist. Mistake?
		10 points by amichail on April 1, 2008 \| 30 comments
27.		Strange imagery found in Java String.class binary (catchpole.net)
		10 points by michaelneale on April 1, 2008 \| 4 comments
28.		Photo Essay: Unlikely Places Where 'Wired' Pioneers Had Their Eureka! Moments (wired.com)
		9 points by raghus on April 1, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		Ask YC: Who are you using for DNS?
		9 points by rob on April 1, 2008 \| 18 comments
30.		Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
		9 points by moog on April 1, 2008 \| 26 comments
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