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1. FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back (fakesteve.blogspot.com)
36 points by sharksandwich on May 11, 2008 | 26 comments
2. The coolest thing from JavaOne 2008 (sun.com)
30 points by nreece on May 11, 2008 | 9 comments
3. Ask YC: How do I send incoming email to a PHP script?
23 points by breck on May 11, 2008 | 16 comments
4. Cash-Burning Facebook Borrows $100mm...Because It Couldn't Sell Stock? (alleyinsider.com)
22 points by rockstar9 on May 11, 2008 | 28 comments
5. Maps of the US made entirely of roads (benfry.com)
22 points by gruseom on May 11, 2008 | 3 comments
6. After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers' (guardian.co.uk)
22 points by revorad on May 11, 2008 | 24 comments
7. Tinydb: store some tiny data in a tiny url (tinydb.org)
21 points by nreece on May 11, 2008 | 6 comments
8. When Will Amazon Start Shipping Cash? (xobni.com)
19 points by adamsmith on May 11, 2008 | 7 comments
9. The Front Page Effect – Why I’d Rather Be on Techmeme than Digg (ryanspoon.com)
19 points by berecruited on May 11, 2008 | 8 comments
10. The hidden value of processing.js (0xdeadbeef.com)
17 points by mqt on May 11, 2008
11. Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit (nytimes.com)
16 points by robg on May 11, 2008 | 10 comments
12. Proving that ideas are not worth a lot.
15 points by shabda on May 11, 2008 | 20 comments
13. How I used 2 YC companies to quickly raise money and awareness for a recent injustice (digitalkarate.net)
15 points by acgourley on May 11, 2008 | 10 comments
14. Hitting 300 SimpleDB Requests Per Second on a Small EC2 Instance (highscalability.com)
14 points by pbnaidu on May 11, 2008 | 14 comments
15. The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon (techcrunch.com)
12 points by getp on May 11, 2008 | 7 comments
16. Trying to find 100 happy users. Inspired by Paul Buchheit. (newscred.com)
12 points by shafqat on May 11, 2008 | 7 comments
17. Pro-choice Programmer (tedneward.com)
11 points by dangoldin on May 11, 2008 | 8 comments
18. You Can't PDF Your Way to Good Software (codingthewheel.com)
11 points by baha_man on May 11, 2008 | 1 comment
19. That's impossible! A simple mathematical paradox (math-blog.com)
11 points by acangiano on May 11, 2008 | 9 comments
20. Pre-release iPhone firmware 2.0 confirms 3G iPhone is coming soon (iphonehacks.com)
8 points by joshwa on May 11, 2008 | 4 comments
21. Three reasons to use IntenseDebate (dondodge.typepad.com)
7 points by drm237 on May 11, 2008 | 6 comments
22. Maybe It’s Time For Twitter To Go “Freemium” (webomatica.com)
6 points by breily on May 11, 2008 | 7 comments
23. The Evolution of the Press Release (techcrunch.com)
6 points by drm237 on May 11, 2008
24. How Web 3.0 Will Work (howstuffworks.com)
6 points by yangyang42 on May 11, 2008 | 4 comments
25. Change we can stomach (nytimes.com)
6 points by Alex3917 on May 11, 2008 | 9 comments
26. The Blood Brain Barrier (techcrunch.com)
5 points by terpua on May 11, 2008 | 4 comments
27. Ask HN: Which mobile platform is your favorite?
5 points by DenisM on May 11, 2008 | 18 comments
28. The future of PHP (ibm.com)
5 points by gumbah on May 11, 2008
29. The 25 Year Old BSD Bug (osnews.com)
4 points by nreece on May 11, 2008
30. Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server (arstechnica.com)
4 points by prakash on May 11, 2008

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