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1. Press for Startups: 10 tips (david.weebly.com)
49 points by drusenko on Feb 21, 2008 | 8 comments
2. Little Known 'Boring' Websites That Make Incredible Money With AdSense (nichegeek.com)
48 points by asmosoinio on Feb 21, 2008 | 36 comments
3. Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App (highscalability.com)
35 points by chaostheory on Feb 21, 2008 | 18 comments
4. Tuition free MIT? [NSFW] (greenspun.com)
33 points by yummyfajitas on Feb 21, 2008 | 19 comments
5. Box.net Now Uses Scribd’s iPaper for Previews - Sorry, Adobe, but this thing just works better (mashable.com)
26 points by raburmester on Feb 21, 2008 | 18 comments
6. Programming Is Like Sex (codesnipers.com)
27 points by catalinist on Feb 21, 2008 | 39 comments
7. Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com (coordinatr.com)
26 points by drm237 on Feb 21, 2008 | 92 comments
8. [On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy (37signals.com)
22 points by jmorin007 on Feb 21, 2008 | 2 comments
9. OpenSolaris' Fielding leaves developer community, slams Sun (thestandard.com)
21 points by ilamont on Feb 21, 2008 | 3 comments
10. Video of a missile taking out the spy satellite. Welcome to the future. (breitbart.tv)
17 points by ivankirigin on Feb 21, 2008 | 8 comments
11. Death of the Level Designer: Procedural Content Generation in Games (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
17 points by sarosh on Feb 21, 2008 | 4 comments
12. Reg Braithwaite does Daily WTF (raganwald.com)
17 points by bdfh42 on Feb 21, 2008 | 5 comments
13. The Art and Science of JavaScript Games (sitepoint.com)
17 points by luccastera on Feb 21, 2008 | 2 comments
14. Is Xobni the next Google? (davidadewumi.com)
14 points by wumi on Feb 21, 2008 | 22 comments
15. Ask YC: do you use what you learned in school?
14 points by supahfly_remix on Feb 21, 2008 | 37 comments
16. Seeking Technology Co-Founder (NYC)
13 points by colellm on Feb 21, 2008 | 49 comments
17. Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain (nytimes.com)
11 points by bootload on Feb 21, 2008 | 12 comments
18. Shotgun strategy for startup (no reg req'd) (ft.com)
13 points by dingosa on Feb 21, 2008 | 8 comments
19. Rails framework founder likens Java to Cobol: "Still relevant in the sense that languages never die" (thestandard.com)
13 points by ilamont on Feb 21, 2008 | 6 comments
20. Alexa Stops Counting- No One Notices (or cares?) (centernetworks.com)
12 points by transburgh on Feb 21, 2008 | 1 comment
21. Outsourcing: Get Over It. (thewealthyprogrammer.com)
12 points by jdueck on Feb 21, 2008 | 6 comments
22. Microsoft Sings a New Tune—Wants to Play Nice With Open-Source (techcrunch.com)
12 points by davidw on Feb 21, 2008 | 5 comments
23. Robert Scoble interviews Trip Adler of Scribd (scribd.com)
11 points by michelson01 on Feb 21, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Ask YC: Anyone using Google Gears or any other client-server sync solution for their startup webapp?
10 points by nreece on Feb 21, 2008 | 1 comment
25. Next Ubuntu release to be called Intrepid Ibex (arstechnica.com)
10 points by auferstehung on Feb 21, 2008 | 4 comments
26. Applying (Math) Theory at Microsoft (technologyreview.com)
10 points by dskhatri on Feb 21, 2008 | 1 comment
27. Shoes, a Ruby GUI toolkit, now has some sweet apps. (the-shoebox.org)
9 points by jashkenas on Feb 21, 2008 | 1 comment
28. Six minute nap 'may boost memory' (bbc.co.uk)
8 points by gps408 on Feb 21, 2008 | 4 comments
29. New class of attack on cryptosystems discovered (vid included) (princeton.edu)
8 points by nickb on Feb 21, 2008 | 1 comment
30. Ask YC: Anyone in Chicago going to TechCocktail Tonight?
8 points by pchristensen on Feb 21, 2008 | 15 comments

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