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1. More advice for new Y Combinator founders
124 points by sama on Jan 8, 2008 | 28 comments
2. Undergraduate programming (joelonsoftware.com)
41 points by lackbeard on Jan 8, 2008 | 28 comments
3. On Comet, Paul Graham, and YC rejection (cometdaily.com)
34 points by heyadayo on Jan 8, 2008 | 50 comments
4. BBC article about over 50's startups. Who here is older than 30? (bbc.co.uk)
22 points by inovica on Jan 8, 2008 | 48 comments
5. Ask YC: Any ideas about intelligent crawlers :)
19 points by franklymydear on Jan 8, 2008 | 30 comments
6. 9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid (foundread.com)
17 points by terpua on Jan 8, 2008 | 6 comments
7. Ramaze: a Ruby framework that will amaze (antoniocangiano.com)
17 points by tmm1 on Jan 8, 2008 | 6 comments
8. $13.3 Million For Startup That Wants To Kill Snail Mail (techcrunch.com)
17 points by drm237 on Jan 8, 2008 | 7 comments
9. Official Google Blog: The flow of information at the Googleplex (googleblog.blogspot.com)
15 points by ivan on Jan 8, 2008
10. In the beginning was the command line by Neil Stephenson (cryptonomicon.com)
16 points by iamelgringo on Jan 8, 2008 | 5 comments
11. Comet is Always Better Than Polling (cometdaily.com)
14 points by danw on Jan 8, 2008 | 9 comments
12. Computational Breakthrough: Faster Integer Multiplication [pdf] (psu.edu)
12 points by hhm on Jan 8, 2008 | 3 comments
13. My new job at Mozilla (jubjubs.net)
9 points by blackswan on Jan 8, 2008
14. MS Bids $1.2B To Buy Norwegian Search Company (globeinvestor.com)
10 points by kirubakaran on Jan 8, 2008 | 8 comments
15. The logical conclusion of MySpace layout cacophony -- from one of my favorite bands (myspace.com)
9 points by ivankirigin on Jan 8, 2008 | 6 comments
16. Radical constraints can lead to breakthroughs in simplicity and entirely new things (economist.com)
8 points by daviday on Jan 8, 2008 | 4 comments
17. Monads in Python (with nice syntax!) (valuedlessons.com)
7 points by nickb on Jan 8, 2008
18. Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! (zdnet.com)
7 points by nreece on Jan 8, 2008 | 2 comments
19. Guerrilla Marketing + Lost and Found = Light Bulb (good startup marketing idea) (startuphustle.com)
6 points by transburgh on Jan 8, 2008 | 12 comments
20. The Matrix Cookbook - A free mathematical desktop reference on matrices (matrixcookbook.com)
6 points by nickb on Jan 8, 2008
21. Computer Science Education: We are training easily replaceable professionals. (af.mil)
6 points by edw519 on Jan 8, 2008
22. 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More (alexiskold.wordpress.com)
5 points by hhm on Jan 8, 2008
23. Some Mind Hacks | Ask YC-HN: What are yours? (oedb.org)
5 points by kirubakaran on Jan 8, 2008 | 2 comments
24. This Day Will Be Remembered: Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup (techcrunch.com)
5 points by transburgh on Jan 8, 2008 | 4 comments
25. Jay-Z, HP's star endorser, uses a Mac (valleywag.com)
5 points by transburgh on Jan 8, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Farmer Manages Cows with GPS Device (dovetailsoftware.com)
4 points by eastsidegringo on Jan 8, 2008 | 1 comment
27. Image Processing in Common Lisp with ch-image (cyrusharmon.org)
4 points by gibsonf1 on Jan 8, 2008 | 1 comment
28. 4 co-founders... who's on the board and how would you determine that ?
4 points by mhidalgo on Jan 8, 2008 | 2 comments
29. Yahoo!, Flickr, OpenID and Identity Projection (simonwillison.net)
3 points by iamelgringo on Jan 8, 2008
30. Why Hasn't OpenID Caught On? (markevanstech.com)
3 points by buckpost on Jan 8, 2008 | 7 comments

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