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1. Java is becoming the new Cobol (infoworld.com)
28 points by shayan on Dec 28, 2007 | 60 comments
2. A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors (nytimes.com)
22 points by garbowza on Dec 28, 2007
3. ThruDB: Faster and Cheaper than SimpleDB (igvita.com)
21 points by pius on Dec 28, 2007 | 3 comments
4. Scaling MySQL at YouTube (conversationsnetwork.org)
21 points by iamelgringo on Dec 28, 2007 | 4 comments
5. Why Rubinius Matters to Ruby's Future (raganwald.com)
17 points by maurycy on Dec 28, 2007 | 6 comments
6. Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China to get up and running faster?
19 points by qwerty2 on Dec 28, 2007 | 33 comments
7. The Ghost of Tesla: MIT researchers demonstrate wireless electrical power transfer (web.mit.edu)
14 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 5 comments
8. Here's the basic problem: you're writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It's 2007. (diveintomark.org)
15 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 12 comments
9. ex googlrs heart ycombinator startups. c4 urself (felicisvc.com)
12 points by rokhayakebe on Dec 28, 2007 | 7 comments
10. The Megapixel Myth (kenrockwell.com)
10 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 6 comments
11. If you cannot change your language, change your language (raganwald.com)
7 points by maurycy on Dec 28, 2007
12. Reading On Lisp: Then and Now... (lispy.wordpress.com)
9 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007
13. Smart Languages and Dumb Parsers (glomek.blogspot.com)
9 points by maurycy on Dec 28, 2007
14. YC bug: can't edit comment
8 points by edu on Dec 28, 2007 | 3 comments
15. Silly code comments you've left to yourself
8 points by matth on Dec 28, 2007 | 12 comments
16. Dissecting Boredom (sciam.com)
8 points by hhm on Dec 28, 2007 | 2 comments
17. Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep... (wired.com)
6 points by gscott on Dec 28, 2007 | 1 comment
18. Any good tax accountants for startups in SF?
6 points by sam on Dec 28, 2007 | 5 comments
19. A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development (techcrunch.com)
6 points by shayan on Dec 28, 2007 | 6 comments
20. The Semicolon Wars (Language wars and Lisp) (americanscientist.org)
6 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 1 comment
21. Made in Weebly. (relevantm.com)
6 points by rokhayakebe on Dec 28, 2007 | 6 comments
22. Here Comes The Google Mafia (techcrunch.com)
6 points by transburgh on Dec 28, 2007 | 3 comments
23. Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard
5 points by majimojo on Dec 28, 2007 | 21 comments
24. Ask YC: Do you unit test your Javascript?
4 points by hbien on Dec 28, 2007 | 3 comments
25. Anatomy of a Next Generation Text Editor (sublimetext.com)
4 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 3 comments
26. Great Finish! Now Start Running: The hard work that follows a product launch (globalmoxie.com)
4 points by joshclark on Dec 28, 2007
27. Xobni for mobiles
4 points by mellampudi on Dec 28, 2007 | 13 comments
28. Wal-Mart Abandons Online Movie Downloads (yahoo.com)
4 points by gscott on Dec 28, 2007
29. Great moments in predicting the future, television edition (pmarca.com)
4 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007
30. Science on a Napkin: Virtual Drawing is to Drawing as the Telephone is to Speaking (distancedrawing.com)
3 points by timach on Dec 28, 2007

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