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1. Arc's Unicode support (by the news.yc patch writer) (collison.ie)
39 points by kul on Feb 8, 2008 | 14 comments
2. Ask Hackers: Opinions on OCaml?
35 points by yters on Feb 8, 2008 | 41 comments
3. The Years of Experience Myth (codinghorror.com)
27 points by getp on Feb 8, 2008 | 14 comments
4. Teaching, Playing, and Programming: Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (okasaki.blogspot.com)
22 points by apgwoz on Feb 8, 2008 | 2 comments
5. The Erlang Challenge (yarivsblog.com)
21 points by tb on Feb 8, 2008 | 22 comments
6. Cringely on Microsoft-Yahoo: Yahoo Needs Courage, Microsoft Needs a Heart (pbs.org)
17 points by sutro on Feb 8, 2008 | 1 comment
7. Martin Fowler: Cheaper Talent Hypothesis (martinfowler.com)
16 points by luccastera on Feb 8, 2008 | 4 comments
8. Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million? (techcrunch.com)
15 points by kevTheDev on Feb 8, 2008 | 3 comments
9. Ask YC: Scaling questions.
15 points by izak30 on Feb 8, 2008 | 24 comments
10. The Arc Challenge Explained (jgc.org)
13 points by jgrahamc on Feb 8, 2008 | 3 comments
11. Automatic writing (guardian.co.uk)
14 points by edu on Feb 8, 2008 | 7 comments
12. "Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. This one is actually doing it." (nytimes.com)
14 points by webwright on Feb 8, 2008 | 9 comments
13. Guitar Hero Game... Using Real Guitars (gizmodo.com)
14 points by chaostheory on Feb 8, 2008 | 3 comments
14. Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today (techcrunch.com)
14 points by jmorin007 on Feb 8, 2008 | 5 comments
15. How to tie world's fastest shoelace knot (fieggen.com)
12 points by bootload on Feb 8, 2008 | 11 comments
16. Poorly-written software makes 100 million+ DTD requests/day to w3.org (w3.org)
11 points by edw519 on Feb 8, 2008 | 2 comments
17. Is Twitter Down? (istwitterdown.com)
11 points by joshwa on Feb 8, 2008 | 5 comments
18. XHTML 2 vs HTML 5 (immike.net)
10 points by PStamatiou on Feb 8, 2008 | 3 comments
19. "People writing Rails apps without tests are idiots." (karmalab.org)
10 points by pius on Feb 8, 2008 | 15 comments
20. Startup Plans to Solve Online Identity Theft, But Does Anyone Care? (wired.com)
10 points by terpua on Feb 8, 2008
21. Ten ideas about Ideas (old but interesting) (linuxjournal.com)
9 points by nreece on Feb 8, 2008
22. Heroku gets a shoutout on the official Rails blog (rubyonrails.com)
9 points by pius on Feb 8, 2008
23. Memory savings with magic trampolines in Mono (advogato.org)
8 points by jey on Feb 8, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Rumor: Plaxo Sold to Google for $200M? (wired.com)
8 points by __ on Feb 8, 2008
25. Why DTrace Makes Leopard a Must-Have Upgrade (nicksieger.com)
8 points by pius on Feb 8, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat (nytimes.com)
7 points by garbowza on Feb 8, 2008
27. The Economist dissolves the conspiracy theories on the undersea Internet cables (economist.com)
7 points by cawel on Feb 8, 2008 | 3 comments
28. Ask YC: what's the most technically impressive startup you remember from recent memory
7 points by rkabir on Feb 8, 2008 | 13 comments
29. Ask YC: Which is easier to deploy/maintain: Python or Ruby apps?
7 points by rob on Feb 8, 2008 | 14 comments
30. Ask YC: which subversion client do you like most
7 points by ozzieg on Feb 8, 2008 | 22 comments

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