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1. What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey (academicbiz.typepad.com)
110 points by markbao on Aug 8, 2008 | 64 comments
2. Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things... (twitter.com/_why)
97 points by gaika on Aug 8, 2008 | 60 comments
3. The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC (mattmazur.com)
90 points by matt1 on Aug 8, 2008 | 50 comments
4. History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game (usgo.org)
48 points by dood on Aug 8, 2008 | 21 comments
5. Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax (importantshock.wordpress.com)
48 points by Anon84 on Aug 8, 2008 | 32 comments
6. Ask PG: What are your thoughts on current YC News community?
35 points by j2d2 on Aug 8, 2008 | 41 comments
7. CA State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses (sfgate.com)
33 points by iamelgringo on Aug 8, 2008 | 34 comments
8. Is Wikipedia saturated? Yep For a year, at least. (oc-co.org)
33 points by gritzko on Aug 8, 2008 | 27 comments
9. User Interaction 101 (andymatuschak.org)
31 points by dhotson on Aug 8, 2008 | 8 comments
10. The Rise and Fall of Twitter (techcrunch.com)
29 points by Mistone on Aug 8, 2008 | 9 comments
11. Not being stupid
28 points by sanj on Aug 8, 2008 | 47 comments
12. Ask YC: Which IRC Channel(s) Do You Frequent?
28 points by dpapathanasiou on Aug 8, 2008 | 41 comments
13. What were you doing during the first dot boom?
28 points by davidw on Aug 8, 2008 | 76 comments
14. Lord of the Memes (nytimes.com)
27 points by timr on Aug 8, 2008 | 18 comments
15. Y Combinator Model “Too Messy” for Microsoft, Says YC Founder (xconomy.com)
22 points by jmorin007 on Aug 8, 2008 | 7 comments
16. It's Friday - go play "The tombs of Asciiroth" (icculus.org)
20 points by bdfh42 on Aug 8, 2008 | 9 comments
17. Who says you can't give prices for expensive, variable-priced services? (nngroup.com)
18 points by henning on Aug 8, 2008 | 8 comments
18. Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken (hackaday.com)
16 points by gaika on Aug 8, 2008 | 9 comments
19. I like the rotating new article at the top of Reddit, how about that for HN?
15 points by wastedbrains on Aug 8, 2008 | 10 comments
20. Gruber on iPhone Blacklist: It's a Core Location Blacklist (daringfireball.net)
13 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 8, 2008 | 5 comments
21. Windows Vista security 'rendered useless' by researcher (techtarget.com)
15 points by babul on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 comment
22. Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (slideshare.net)
14 points by wave on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 comment
23. Jazz Programmer (c2.com)
14 points by d0mine on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 comment
24. David Byrne on the Uncanny Valley (davidbyrne.com)
13 points by sanj on Aug 8, 2008 | 4 comments
25. AJAX File Upload Progress Bars (with jQuery) (stepthreeprofit.com)
12 points by blanu on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Ryanair blocks bookings made through screenscraping. (bbc.co.uk)
12 points by babul on Aug 8, 2008 | 9 comments
27. Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby (ruby-lang.org)
11 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 8, 2008 | 10 comments
28. YooPlace.com - looking for feedback
10 points by runner29 on Aug 8, 2008 | 8 comments
29. DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government (schneier.com)
9 points by soundsop on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 comment
30. It’s Like Google Maps with Sim City 2000 - OnionMap (flowingdata.com)
9 points by prakash on Aug 8, 2008 | 4 comments

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