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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.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
14.EmacsWiki (emacswiki.org)
17 points by kirubakaran on May 16, 2008 | 8 comments
15.Ask YC: How do you keep your place cool in hot weather?
17 points by lyime on May 16, 2008 | 52 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.Is Scala Really the Next C++? (codecommit.com)
12 points by kungfudoi on May 16, 2008 | 26 comments
24.Teens more competent than we assume (psychologytoday.com)
12 points by bootload on May 16, 2008 | 7 comments
25.New ant species taking over Texas (nytimes.com)
10 points by kradic on May 16, 2008 | 5 comments
26.13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness (littletutorials.com)
11 points by nickb on May 16, 2008 | 2 comments
27.Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (tldp.org)
11 points by kirubakaran on May 16, 2008 | 1 comment
28.100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library (artofmanliness.com)
10 points by nickb on May 16, 2008 | 20 comments
29.A Few Easy Ones from Raymond Smullyan (raganwald.com)
10 points by bdfh42 on May 16, 2008 | 3 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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