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1.
Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application (forbes.com)
82 points by iamelgringo on April 5, 2008 | 39 comments
2.
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service (techcrunch.com)
38 points by sant0sk1 on April 5, 2008 | 6 comments
3.
Great Presentation on MetaProgramming. Talks about pg/ycombinator/lisp/ruby. [video] (confreaks.com)
30 points by luccastera on April 5, 2008 | 19 comments
4.
How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure) (sciam.com)
29 points by tarkin2 on April 5, 2008 | 14 comments
5.
Coming soon: superfast Internet (timesonline.co.uk)
27 points by nickb on April 5, 2008 | 16 comments
6.
Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 (daringfireball.net)
27 points by sant0sk1 on April 5, 2008 | 17 comments
7.
Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes?
25 points by edw519 on April 5, 2008 | 63 comments
8.
Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half (telegraph.co.uk)
23 points by edw519 on April 5, 2008 | 22 comments
9.
Microsoft: Yahoo! has 3 weeks to decide (microsoft.com)
22 points by raghus on April 5, 2008 | 7 comments
10.
Loopt on NBC Nightly News [video] (msn.com)
20 points by mattculbreth on April 5, 2008 | 12 comments
11.
FontStruct: Build, Share, Download Fonts (fontshop.com)
14 points by pius on April 5, 2008 | 1 comment
12.
Ask YC: Choosing advisors for your Startup?
13 points by dustineichler on April 5, 2008 | 22 comments
13.
The 8 Essential Tools for Programmers (thinkingserious.com)
13 points by thinkingserious on April 5, 2008 | 12 comments
14.
Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business (avc.blogs.com)
12 points by prakash on April 5, 2008 | 8 comments
15.
Open source will quietly take over (zdnet.co.uk)
11 points by edw519 on April 5, 2008 | 3 comments
16.
Ask YC: What editor/ide do you use to hack javascript?
10 points by vikram on April 5, 2008 | 31 comments
17.
Perens warns that a vendor-dominated OSI board might be tempted to offer a seat to Microsoft (zdnet.co.uk)
10 points by ahold on April 5, 2008
18.
.CSV: The dangers of "human terrain mapping" (steinberg.org)
9 points by tarkin2 on April 5, 2008 | 2 comments
19.
I need your signature to help me protect Open Source (techp.org)
9 points by pius on April 5, 2008
20.
Infochimps.org: Free Redistributable Rich Data Sets (infochimps.org)
8 points by dood on April 5, 2008 | 1 comment
21.
Ask YC: 4th Roommate in Silicon Valley in Startup House
8 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 5, 2008 | 5 comments
22.
Decisions Without Data are Guesses (20bits.com)
8 points by jfarmer on April 5, 2008 | 9 comments
23.
Ask YC: Software Engineering in Startups
7 points by aflag on April 5, 2008 | 7 comments
24.
ISPs tracking online habits of at least 100,000 users via packet inspection. (washingtonpost.com)
6 points by timr on April 5, 2008 | 6 comments
25.
Technology and Courage [pdf] (scribd.com)
6 points by pius on April 5, 2008 | 2 comments
26.
YC: more competition ... Highland Capital Puts Out the Call for Student Entrepreneurs and Interns (xconomy.com)
5 points by kmer on April 5, 2008
27.
REST: Nouns and Resources (subbu.org)
5 points by raghus on April 5, 2008
28.
Scientists devise software that can interpret attractiveness (physorg.com)
5 points by pius on April 5, 2008 | 1 comment
29.
Why home ownership causes unemployment (slate.com)
5 points by nostrademons on April 5, 2008
30.
Concentrating On The Important Things - Solar Thermal Power (theoildrum.com)
4 points by iamelgringo on April 5, 2008 | 2 comments

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