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1.		Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance (guardian.co.uk)
		65 points by graywh on May 21, 2008 \| 56 comments
2.		PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter (codinghorror.com)
		62 points by VinzO on May 21, 2008 \| 59 comments
3.		Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?
		60 points by robertk on May 21, 2008 \| 52 comments
4.		Giles Bowkett: Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die? (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
		53 points by gaika on May 21, 2008 \| 63 comments
5.		New Common Lisp book announced, bills itself as a sequel to On Lisp. (groups.google.com)
		53 points by dfranke on May 21, 2008 \| 15 comments
6.		YourWeek: a reddit-powered TV news program by PBS (reddit.com)
		39 points by kn0thing on May 21, 2008 \| 10 comments
7.		James Simons: former mathematician and now billionaire hedge fund manager (seedmagazine.com)
		26 points by getp on May 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
8.		Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned (techcrunch.com)
		26 points by nickb on May 21, 2008 \| 11 comments
9.		A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		25 points by pchristensen on May 21, 2008 \| 59 comments
10.		Why Small Really Is Beautiful (gigaom.com)
		22 points by shuleatt on May 21, 2008
11.		Ask YC: To The Young, How Supportive Are Your Parents?
		22 points by rockstar9 on May 21, 2008 \| 23 comments
12.		Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet (wired.com)
		22 points by edw519 on May 21, 2008 \| 4 comments
13.		Hash functions: theoretical basics, mixing, and evaluations of algorithms (comcast.net)
		20 points by nreece on May 21, 2008 \| 6 comments
14.		Incense is psychoactive: It's good for your brain (thinkgene.com)
		21 points by chaostheory on May 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
15.		You Don’t Have To Be The Next Big Thing (howtosplitanatom.com)
		18 points by breily on May 21, 2008
16.		Ask PG: The difference between instinct and emotion?
		18 points by langer on May 21, 2008 \| 23 comments
17.		How to read a business book (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		17 points by getp on May 21, 2008 \| 23 comments
18.		Chatterous works better than Twitter on mobile (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
		15 points by arasakik on May 21, 2008 \| 32 comments
19.		The no-framework PHP MVC framework (lerdorf.com)
		16 points by t0pj on May 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
20.		Geohashing (xkcd.com)
		16 points by sant0sk1 on May 21, 2008 \| 10 comments
21.		Python snippet to find available two-letter domain names for some TLDs (paste2.org)
		15 points by thorax on May 21, 2008 \| 7 comments
22.		Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco (swtch.com)
		14 points by luckystrike on May 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
23.		Microsoft Doloto: Download Time Optimizer (research.microsoft.com)
		12 points by nreece on May 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
24.		Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users (techcrunch.com)
		11 points by nickb on May 21, 2008 \| 10 comments
25.		The Safest Seat To Sit On A Plane Is... (flowingdata.com)
		10 points by neilc on May 21, 2008 \| 10 comments
26.		The Right Stuff: Building The Team (gaborcselle.com)
		10 points by wumi on May 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		Ask YC: Naming a startup
		9 points by aneesh on May 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
28.		Is Your Web Site Fast Enough for Google? (wsj.com)
		9 points by jakewolf on May 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
29.		Ask YC: Code Digesting
		9 points by nsrivast on May 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
30.		100x Lisp Speed Improvement (Using Lisp faster than C paper techniques) (news.ycombinator.com)
		9 points by gibsonf1 on May 21, 2008
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