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1. Lockhart's Lament: On Mathematics at School (maa.org)
70 points by hhm on March 6, 2008 | 20 comments
2. Optimize for now! (37signals.com)
72 points by naish on March 6, 2008 | 34 comments
3. Using Microsoft Excel as a 3D Game Engine (gamasutra.com)
68 points by hhm on March 6, 2008 | 8 comments
4. Apple iPhone SDK Event: iFund - $100 Million for iPhone Devs (gizmodo.com)
57 points by Readmore on March 6, 2008 | 29 comments
5. YC Help: I need Acquisition Advice
53 points by nextmoveone on March 6, 2008 | 38 comments
6. 3. 2. 1. Contact. The Google Contacts API has landed (googledataapis.blogspot.com)
33 points by hwork on March 6, 2008 | 13 comments
7. FYI: Last time someone made a $100MM fund to boost development it didn't turn out all that great (nytimes.com)
29 points by alaskamiller on March 6, 2008 | 26 comments
8. Python AJAX Server (pyxer.net)
25 points by muriithi on March 6, 2008 | 6 comments
9. Hacker vs Engineer - Know The Difference! (pchristensen.com)
24 points by imgabe on March 6, 2008 | 29 comments
10. If Version Control Systems were Airlines (complete.org)
24 points by mqt on March 6, 2008
11. Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?
23 points by tzury on March 6, 2008 | 66 comments
12. CMU team builds robotic snake (cmu.edu)
19 points by streblo on March 6, 2008 | 5 comments
13. Steve Jobs: Flash video not suitable for iPhone (cbc.ca)
19 points by chengmi on March 6, 2008 | 10 comments
14. Warren Buffett is now the richest man in the world (beating Bill Gates after 13 years). (forbes.com)
18 points by falsestprophet on March 6, 2008 | 18 comments
15. Shared Web Hosting: Who Is Good?
17 points by motoko on March 6, 2008 | 18 comments
16. Ask YC: Getting involved in open source projects
15 points by jaydub on March 6, 2008 | 16 comments
17. Why Internet Explorer 8 still Sucks Balls (windowhaxor.net)
14 points by pavs on March 6, 2008 | 21 comments
18. Python Montage Code for Displaying Arrays (datawrangling.com)
14 points by polar on March 6, 2008
19. Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps "jump the shark?" (andrewchen.typepad.com)
13 points by nickb on March 6, 2008 | 2 comments
20. Ask YC: To continue, or not to continue ... how do you know?
12 points by NSX2 on March 6, 2008 | 47 comments
21. Ask.com gets a makeover, lays off 40 (cnn.com)
12 points by moog on March 6, 2008 | 5 comments
22. Switching between "school mode" and "startup mode"
12 points by kingnothing on March 6, 2008 | 19 comments
23. Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging (codinghorror.com)
12 points by juanpablo on March 6, 2008 | 8 comments
24. Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB (zdnet.com)
11 points by edw519 on March 6, 2008 | 3 comments
25. So far, little demand for Silverlight developers (thestandard.com)
11 points by ilamont on March 6, 2008 | 10 comments
26. The New York Times Perl Profiler (nytimes.com)
10 points by mqt on March 6, 2008 | 1 comment
27. Have a great iPhone idea? Apply now to KPCB's iFund! (kpcb.com)
10 points by alaskamiller on March 6, 2008 | 3 comments
28. Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam (arstechnica.com)
10 points by auferstehung on March 6, 2008
29. IE8 (beta) is for us JavaScripters (ejohn.org)
10 points by bdfh42 on March 6, 2008 | 4 comments
30. Web 2.0's Long Road to IPOs (businessweek.com)
10 points by mqt on March 6, 2008 | 2 comments

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