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1. Code on the Road: Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day (expatsoftware.com)
83 points by tjakab on May 8, 2008 | 35 comments
2. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million (techcrunch.com)
54 points by sant0sk1 on May 8, 2008 | 31 comments
3. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel (uwnews.org)
49 points by smoody on May 8, 2008 | 8 comments
4. It is now completely impossible to sell a laptop on eBay (consumerist.com)
49 points by robertk on May 8, 2008 | 43 comments
5. Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details (37signals.com)
44 points by naish on May 8, 2008 | 35 comments
6. Creating a successful new online product - 13 tips (inter-sections.net)
42 points by swombat on May 8, 2008 | 15 comments
7. Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?
40 points by edw519 on May 8, 2008 | 95 comments
8. CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp (common-lisp.net)
40 points by parenthesis on May 8, 2008 | 12 comments
9. RescueTime (YC '08) releases aggregate data for the first time (techcrunch.com)
37 points by hwork on May 8, 2008 | 6 comments
10. Startup crisis. Dorm room style.
33 points by jfornear on May 8, 2008 | 85 comments
11. Building a Web-App the Microsoft Way (thinkvitamin.com)
30 points by mattjung on May 8, 2008 | 31 comments
12. MySQL v PostgreSQL: Which have you used and why?
25 points by babul on May 8, 2008 | 43 comments
13. Deliberate Practice (stubbleblog.com)
23 points by raganwald on May 8, 2008 | 11 comments
14. Headache relief for programmers: Regular expression generator (txt2re.com)
21 points by edw519 on May 8, 2008 | 12 comments
15. What if I want to build a device to run Android?
18 points by Readmore on May 8, 2008 | 10 comments
16. Is IKEA the World’s Largest Charity? (mentalfloss.com)
18 points by robg on May 8, 2008 | 8 comments
17. The Hype Cycle (nplusonemag.com)
17 points by garret on May 8, 2008 | 3 comments
18. Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative (readwriteweb.com)
16 points by naish on May 8, 2008 | 5 comments
19. The Cost of Smarts (nytimes.com)
15 points by edw519 on May 8, 2008 | 11 comments
20. The Terrible Legacy of Legacy (hackerdashery.com)
15 points by sah on May 8, 2008
21. Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)
15 points by vuknje on May 8, 2008 | 37 comments
22. Is Flickr Worth $4 Billion? (markevanstech.com)
13 points by buckpost on May 8, 2008 | 13 comments
23. Microsoft courting Facebook? (wsj.com)
13 points by sanj on May 8, 2008 | 12 comments
24. The ‘titans’ of venture capital: Entrepreneurs, we’re here to serve you (venturebeat.com)
13 points by wumi on May 8, 2008 | 2 comments
25. An Introduction to PLT Scheme with Pictures (plt-scheme.org)
11 points by nickb on May 8, 2008 | 2 comments
26. Programmer Productivity - The Tenfinity Factor (devtopics.com)
11 points by swombat on May 8, 2008 | 4 comments
27. Ask YC: How important are HN contribution to YC applications?
10 points by bkbleikamp on May 8, 2008 | 19 comments
28. Flat-pack accounting (economist.com)
10 points by byrneseyeview on May 8, 2008 | 1 comment
29. Crawling is harder than it looks (glinden.blogspot.com)
10 points by prakash on May 8, 2008 | 2 comments
30. Japan Steadily Becoming a Land Of Few Children (washingtonpost.com)
10 points by timr on May 8, 2008 | 9 comments

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