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1. Letter to a Young Procrastinator: Some last-minute advice from a veteran slacker (slate.com)
60 points by robg on May 13, 2008 | 30 comments
2. Narcissism of small code differences (raganwald.com)
53 points by dangoldin on May 13, 2008 | 25 comments
3. Writing, Briefly (paulgraham.com)
46 points by wumi on May 13, 2008 | 25 comments
4. Session variables without cookies (thomasfrank.se)
33 points by natrius on May 13, 2008 | 4 comments
5. Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations (techcrunch.com)
28 points by hwork on May 13, 2008 | 11 comments
6. Advanced Codemunging: How SICP, Emacs, and Lisp Change Your Day Job Performance (lispy.wordpress.com)
29 points by pchristensen on May 13, 2008 | 3 comments
7. Why Yelp Works (nytimes.com)
29 points by edw519 on May 13, 2008 | 7 comments
8. Twitter All Your Bash Commands (unixdaemon.net)
26 points by kirubakaran on May 13, 2008 | 6 comments
9. Google's search business to be bigger than Windows (alleyinsider.com)
25 points by JohnN on May 13, 2008 | 16 comments
10. Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage (vnoel.wordpress.com)
25 points by edw519 on May 13, 2008
11. You don't create a culture (37signals.com)
22 points by pbnaidu on May 13, 2008 | 7 comments
12. What the F***? - Why We Curse (tnr.com)
21 points by kf on May 13, 2008 | 12 comments
13. More On Lies (defmacro.org)
21 points by pchristensen on May 13, 2008 | 22 comments
14. Debian (and derivatives) Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable (gmane.org)
21 points by naish on May 13, 2008 | 10 comments
15. Omnisio: Slide-Sync Tool Launched (omnisio.com)
20 points by prakash on May 13, 2008
16. Why Linux people lust after DTrace (and how DTrace saved Twitter) (intel.com)
20 points by smanek on May 13, 2008 | 7 comments
17. Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage (docs.google.com)
19 points by chaostheory on May 13, 2008
18. Smalltalker responds to Dynamic Languages Strike Back (avibryant.com)
17 points by pc on May 13, 2008
19. Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista (businessweek.com)
16 points by kradic on May 13, 2008 | 9 comments
20. How to Fix the News (aaronsw.com)
16 points by lackbeard on May 13, 2008 | 14 comments
21. Introduction to Computational Geometry (uci.edu)
16 points by nickb on May 13, 2008
22. Google hands out $1.25 million to 50 Android app winners (alleyinsider.com)
14 points by fromedome on May 13, 2008 | 10 comments
23. Andrew Chen: Lessons from the casino industry on engagement metrics and lifetime value (andrewchen.typepad.com)
14 points by andrew_null on May 13, 2008
24. The Failure of Cambrian House (techcrunch.com)
14 points by mattjung on May 13, 2008 | 5 comments
25. Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces (onwired.com)
14 points by nathandh on May 13, 2008 | 3 comments
26. It's official: HP bids $25 a share for EDS, will take on IBM in tech services (alleyinsider.com)
12 points by fromedome on May 13, 2008 | 3 comments
27. 99% Genetic? Individual Differences in Executive Function Are Almost Perfectly Heritable (scienceblogs.com)
13 points by nickb on May 13, 2008 | 14 comments
28. Data, Algorithms, and Powerset (anand.typepad.com)
11 points by breily on May 13, 2008
29. Microsoft Research launches WorldWide Telescope, Scoble cries (cnet.com)
10 points by asnyder on May 13, 2008 | 14 comments
30. Marketing on a Startup Budget: 101 Free Offers and Coupons to Advertise Your New Site (insidecrm.com)
10 points by psogle on May 13, 2008

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