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1.
First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. (nytimes.com)
42 points by markbao on July 27, 2008 | 50 comments
2.
Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat (gigaom.com)
41 points by echair on July 27, 2008 | 19 comments
3.
Looking for Plan B - 'almost no one is seeking to create long-term value or build businesses' (gesterling.wordpress.com)
41 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 32 comments
4.
PDFMiner: Python PDF text parser (unixuser.org)
41 points by iamelgringo on July 27, 2008 | 13 comments
5.
No Secret Software! (tbray.org)
39 points by naish on July 27, 2008 | 14 comments
6.
Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe. (away.com)
38 points by robg on July 27, 2008 | 43 comments
7.
Zeromq: Fast Messaging (zeromq.org)
34 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 6 comments
8.
Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt (joelonsoftware.com)
24 points by JabavuAdams on July 27, 2008 | 15 comments
9.
Is it worth starting "from scratch" in web dev? Straight Python, or Django?
24 points by h34t on July 27, 2008 | 37 comments
10.
How SmugMug uses Amazon EC2 (sys-con.com)
23 points by ckinnan on July 27, 2008 | 3 comments
11.
Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter? (techcrunch.com)
22 points by markbao on July 27, 2008 | 6 comments
12.
How Comet Brings Instant Messaging to Meebo (oreilly.com)
20 points by toffer on July 27, 2008
13.
The Dark Knight and Game Theory (quantitativepeace.com)
17 points by dhotson on July 27, 2008 | 5 comments
14.
A job ad: "Senior Lisp Developer" (dice.com)
16 points by parenthesis on July 27, 2008 | 4 comments
15.
What a Space Shuttle launch looks like from a plane [video] (liveleak.com)
16 points by alexwg on July 27, 2008 | 6 comments
16.
Python Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (catonmat.net)
16 points by sunshine on July 27, 2008 | 1 comment
17.
Lisp Plus Plus (interhack.net)
16 points by parenthesis on July 27, 2008 | 12 comments
18.
Is TheSixtyOne a YC Startup?
15 points by jmtame on July 27, 2008 | 11 comments
19.
People who are telling the truth about themselves do not insist on being ‘off the record’ (realdanlyons.com)
15 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 23 comments
20.
If someone can do it for free, then it will be inevitably free (montrealtechwatch.com)
14 points by mtw on July 27, 2008 | 14 comments
21.
Culprit found for lower sperm counts: soy (contains estrogen-like chemical) (guardian.co.uk)
14 points by crocus on July 27, 2008 | 10 comments
22.
Project BlueEye - Ixpcam (googlepages.com)
14 points by arjunb on July 27, 2008 | 6 comments
23.
The single assignment cargo cult (tonyarcieri.org)
12 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 20 comments
24.
A Lean Laptop Built for Speed and Handling Everyday Tasks (nytimes.com)
12 points by echair on July 27, 2008 | 6 comments
25.
Linux development on the PlayStation 3: More than a toy (ibm.com)
12 points by iamelgringo on July 27, 2008 | 4 comments
26.
Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers? (gigaom.com)
12 points by crocus on July 27, 2008 | 23 comments
27.
Faster Math Functions [pdf] (scea.com)
11 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 2 comments
28.
Anatomy of the Linux file system (ibm.com)
11 points by ucdaz on July 27, 2008
29.
When is one thing equal to some other thing? [pdf] (math.harvard.edu)
10 points by nickb on July 27, 2008 | 1 comment
30.
Are You Popular? (archive.org)
9 points by dr_zeuss on July 27, 2008 | 3 comments

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