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1.		The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (paulgraham.com)
		56 points by DaniFong on May 26, 2008 \| 8 comments
2.		NASA - Phoenix has landed (nasa.gov)
		44 points by nickb on May 26, 2008 \| 23 comments
3.		Twitter’s business model is to sell the company (flaptor.com)
		40 points by diego on May 26, 2008 \| 27 comments
4.		Paypal has been terribly broken for 10 days and no one's talking about it (getclicky.com)
		38 points by nickb on May 26, 2008 \| 14 comments
5.		Erlang's Joe Armstrong on RPC: "The road we didn't go down" (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
		30 points by a-priori on May 26, 2008 \| 6 comments
6.		Some recent updates to Tipjoy (tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com)
		29 points by ivankirigin on May 26, 2008 \| 9 comments
7.		Would You Want This Job? Hard work, middle of Kansas (jobdig.com)
		25 points by whatwoulddadsay on May 26, 2008 \| 42 comments
8.		Alan Kay and friends do some amazing stuff (ucla.edu)
		20 points by MaysonL on May 26, 2008 \| 1 comment
9.		Seesmic: Why it's so important to just frackin' start (calacanis.com)
		19 points by keener on May 26, 2008 \| 18 comments
10.		After hitting the jackpot, tech entrepreneurs school start-ups at Stanford (latimes.com)
		15 points by drm237 on May 26, 2008 \| 2 comments
11.		Robert Bachrach responds to infamous Ethernet would be a failure memo (bytecoder.com)
		18 points by byteCoder on May 26, 2008
12.		PayPal: Ten Days And Counting To Fix Drop Down Menu Bug (techcrunch.com)
		18 points by kyro on May 26, 2008 \| 8 comments
13.		Helping hacked sites (Google engineer responds to guy erased from Google) (mattcutts.com)
		17 points by markbao on May 26, 2008 \| 1 comment
14.		21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code (rubyinside.com)
		17 points by pauljonas on May 26, 2008 \| 28 comments
15.		Pragmatic VC: Stop Coding, Start Marketing. Getting Your Positioning Right. (stevebarsh.com)
		17 points by cera on May 26, 2008 \| 10 comments
16.		Please make Hacker News slower
		16 points by planck on May 26, 2008 \| 22 comments
17.		Extending the user model: profiles in Django (bluwiki.com)
		13 points by kf on May 26, 2008 \| 1 comment
18.		New York Times API Coming (readwriteweb.com)
		13 points by naish on May 26, 2008 \| 5 comments
19.		Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap (nytimes.com)
		13 points by danw on May 26, 2008 \| 16 comments
20.		Valtrex For Geeks (mattmaroon.com)
		11 points by kyro on May 26, 2008 \| 9 comments
21.		The Oxbridge Fallout Effect (twak.blogspot.com)
		11 points by xirium on May 26, 2008 \| 8 comments
22.		Memo to a Young Leader: What Kind of Boss Are You? (hbsp.com)
		10 points by jaydub on May 26, 2008 \| 1 comment
23.		Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy (gamesindustry.biz)
		10 points by arvernus on May 26, 2008 \| 16 comments
24.		Why hackers FLOSS (milkingthegnu.org)
		10 points by TheBigRedDog on May 26, 2008 \| 5 comments
25.		Installing Ubuntu on the OLPC XO-1: "My XO went from being a novelty toy to a useful tool" (locut.us)
		9 points by edw519 on May 26, 2008 \| 2 comments
26.		Science vs Religion (humor) (photobucket.com)
		9 points by nreece on May 26, 2008 \| 11 comments
27.		Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise (readwriteweb.com)
		9 points by markbao on May 26, 2008 \| 3 comments
28.		Is the Eurovision song contest rigged? An investigation using simple data visualisation. (successfulsoftware.net)
		9 points by hermitcrab on May 26, 2008 \| 14 comments
29.		Ask YC: YUI for CSS grid
		9 points by ra on May 26, 2008 \| 7 comments
30.		Harvard Negotiation Project: 5 Lasting Rules For Negotiating Anything (gigaom.com)
		8 points by naish on May 26, 2008
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