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1.		Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com)
		70 points by jdale27 on May 16, 2008 \| 19 comments
2.		Why word of mouth doesn't happen (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		37 points by breily on May 16, 2008 \| 10 comments
3.		Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by mattculbreth on May 16, 2008 \| 12 comments
4.		Security Holes (xkcd.com)
		30 points by getp on May 16, 2008 \| 13 comments
5.		Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments (ryanspoon.com)
		29 points by berecruited on May 16, 2008 \| 17 comments
6.		Reality Check: What does Gartner really do? (pbs.org)
		28 points by naish on May 16, 2008 \| 10 comments
7.		Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards (zdnet.co.uk)
		27 points by foemmel on May 16, 2008 \| 12 comments
8.		Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding (onstartups.com)
		25 points by kungfudoi on May 16, 2008 \| 8 comments
9.		Boston Geeks: BarCampBoston3 (the free geek unconference) is this Saturday & Sunday. (barcampboston.org)
		21 points by JayNeely on May 16, 2008 \| 8 comments
10.		Debunking the Laundry List Fallacy: Why Doing Less is More Impressive (calnewport.com)
		19 points by dangoldin on May 16, 2008 \| 4 comments
11.		Wigix: A Stock Market for Your Stuff (billburnham.blogs.com)
		19 points by dpapathanasiou on May 16, 2008 \| 20 comments
12.		I spent a week building a game on AppEngine. Here's what I learned. (rura.org)
		18 points by shimon on May 16, 2008
13.		Ask YC: How do you keep your place cool in hot weather?
		17 points by lyime on May 16, 2008 \| 52 comments
14.		EmacsWiki (emacswiki.org)
		17 points by kirubakaran on May 16, 2008 \| 8 comments
15.		Sugar Labs created — New Foundation to Adapt OLPC’s Laptop Interface for Other Machines (xconomy.com)
		17 points by nickb on May 16, 2008 \| 2 comments
16.		Ask YC: Road trip. Which audio books would you recommend?
		16 points by groovyone on May 16, 2008 \| 43 comments
17.		Danny Hillis tells us why Computer Science is no good. (longnow.org)
		16 points by rglovejoy on May 16, 2008 \| 15 comments
18.		Angus King and His 10 Principles of Effective Leadership (makesomethinghappen.net)
		16 points by bmaier on May 16, 2008 \| 6 comments
19.		Ask YC: Mac Text Editors
		15 points by nomad on May 16, 2008 \| 71 comments
20.		Best Practices of Touch Screen Interface Design (voltagecreative.com)
		14 points by wmeredith on May 16, 2008 \| 18 comments
21.		Real-World Tufte Graphics in 11 Lines of Code (juiceanalytics.com)
		14 points by edw519 on May 16, 2008 \| 3 comments
22.		Is it acceptable to profit from the poor? (economist.com)
		12 points by jyu on May 16, 2008 \| 40 comments
23.		Teens more competent than we assume (psychologytoday.com)
		12 points by bootload on May 16, 2008 \| 7 comments
24.		Is Scala Really the Next C++? (codecommit.com)
		12 points by kungfudoi on May 16, 2008 \| 26 comments
25.		New ant species taking over Texas (nytimes.com)
		10 points by kradic on May 16, 2008 \| 5 comments
26.		Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (tldp.org)
		11 points by kirubakaran on May 16, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness (littletutorials.com)
		11 points by nickb on May 16, 2008 \| 2 comments
28.		A Few Easy Ones from Raymond Smullyan (raganwald.com)
		10 points by bdfh42 on May 16, 2008 \| 3 comments
29.		100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library (artofmanliness.com)
		10 points by nickb on May 16, 2008 \| 20 comments
30.		Ask YC: Do you love or hate software piracy?
		9 points by ideas101 on May 16, 2008 \| 63 comments
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