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1. Fuck the VCs (taptaptap.com)
83 points by tortilla on Aug 27, 2008 | 57 comments
2. How to Change the World: Y Combinator: The Art of the Open House (guykawasaki.com)
71 points by jkopelman on Aug 27, 2008 | 10 comments
3. Backtype (YC summer 08): Twitter for comments launches (techcrunch.com)
67 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 27, 2008 | 31 comments
4. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks (freshbooks.com)
51 points by davidcrow on Aug 27, 2008 | 9 comments
5. Y Combinator Article Nominated for Deletion by Wikipedia Administrators (wikipedia.org)
45 points by ciscoriordan on Aug 27, 2008 | 79 comments
6. What it's like to work at Radar (snaptalent.com)
50 points by girk on Aug 27, 2008 | 22 comments
7. How to Drill a Square Hole (wolfram.com)
39 points by hhm on Aug 27, 2008 | 10 comments
8. Raphaƫl: Cross-Browser JavaScript Vector Graphics Library (raphaeljs.com)
38 points by revorad on Aug 27, 2008 | 5 comments
9. Real-time tracking of human eyes using a webcam (codeproject.com)
34 points by soundsop on Aug 27, 2008 | 11 comments
10. Mousers vs. Keyboardists (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
33 points by whalliburton on Aug 27, 2008 | 37 comments
11. Ask YC: What do you actually pay for, you, yourself?
32 points by swombat on Aug 27, 2008 | 79 comments
12. American Lawbreaking (slate.com)
33 points by Herring on Aug 27, 2008 | 13 comments
13. FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator (thedeal.com)
21 points by bootload on Aug 27, 2008 | 18 comments
14. Landing a declarative programming job (logicaltypes.blogspot.com)
21 points by edw519 on Aug 27, 2008 | 8 comments
15. Fetishes (xkcd.com)
19 points by andreyf on Aug 27, 2008 | 18 comments
16. No, Silly, Piracy is Theft (devtopics.com)
19 points by pbnaidu on Aug 27, 2008 | 101 comments
17. What do you pay for? (centernetworks.com)
19 points by byosko on Aug 27, 2008 | 4 comments
18. 11 Things I Learned From Speaking and Networking at Gnomedex (markbao.com)
18 points by markbao on Aug 27, 2008 | 4 comments
19. This Valley is my Hollywood (31fps.com)
20 points by dcurtis on Aug 27, 2008 | 11 comments
20. The danger of laughing at your customers (37signals.com)
16 points by terpua on Aug 27, 2008 | 6 comments
21. Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole (wired.com)
15 points by nickb on Aug 27, 2008 | 2 comments
22. Ask YC: What do you think of a .net domain?
15 points by maxklein on Aug 27, 2008 | 27 comments
23. Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster (friendfeed.com)
14 points by paul on Aug 27, 2008 | 1 comment
24. Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits (appleinsider.com)
13 points by nickb on Aug 27, 2008
25. Ubiquity tutorial: Command-line web plugin for Firefox (wiki.mozilla.org)
13 points by soundsop on Aug 27, 2008 | 3 comments
26. Interactive graphic of 10k music lyrics for body parts across genres (fleshmap.com)
12 points by robg on Aug 27, 2008 | 5 comments
27. How we learned to cheat at online poker: a story of software security (cigital.com)
12 points by henning on Aug 27, 2008 | 8 comments
28. Apple iPhone ad banned by Advertising Standards Authority over misleading internet claims (guardian.co.uk)
11 points by nickb on Aug 27, 2008 | 10 comments
29. The Back Door (tbray.org)
11 points by dpapathanasiou on Aug 27, 2008 | 5 comments
30. Transportation Hack 2.0: Flaw Found Calif.'s FasTrak System (pcworld.com)
11 points by acesamped on Aug 27, 2008 | 14 comments

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