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1. Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. (paulgraham.com)
124 points by mqt on Feb 28, 2009 | 127 comments
2. Y Combinator’s FathomDB Takes The Hassle Out Of Managing Your Database (techcrunch.com)
110 points by jmorin007 on Feb 28, 2009 | 43 comments
3. Entrepreneur sells bottled New York City tap water (latimes.com)
72 points by Erf on Feb 28, 2009 | 53 comments
4. LightCloud: Distributed key-value database built on Tokyo Tyrant (plurk.com)
62 points by amix on Feb 28, 2009 | 26 comments
5. Atlas: Under the Hood (thinkvitamin.com)
55 points by sant0sk1 on Feb 28, 2009 | 9 comments
6. Warren Buffet's Letter to Investors (berkshirehathaway.com)
55 points by quizbiz on Feb 28, 2009 | 12 comments
7. JavaScript: The Good Parts (catonmat.net)
53 points by pkrumins on Feb 28, 2009 | 20 comments
8. Evan Williams's Twitter talk at TED (ted.com)
43 points by mcxx on Feb 28, 2009 | 29 comments
9. Could Atlanta Buy A Silicon Valley? (weatherby.net)
42 points by ivey on Feb 28, 2009 | 70 comments
10. Using FathomDB as a database provider: WebMynd's experience (webmynd.com)
35 points by jcb on Feb 28, 2009 | 3 comments
11. Emacs + Vim + Haskell = Yi (wikipedia.org)
40 points by critic on Feb 28, 2009 | 8 comments
12. Ask HN: Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) (➡.ws)
39 points by thorax on Feb 28, 2009 | 47 comments
13. Max Levchin's favorite new startups (businessinsider.com)
35 points by angstrom on Feb 28, 2009 | 57 comments
14. How To Turn Customers Into Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
31 points by vaksel on Feb 28, 2009 | 13 comments
15. Nicole Sullivan’s Object Oriented CSS (ajaxian.com)
26 points by bdfh42 on Feb 28, 2009 | 10 comments
16. Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again) (lessig.org)
20 points by epi0Bauqu on Feb 28, 2009 | 4 comments
17. Bloom filters in a nutshell (sun.com)
20 points by sadiq on Feb 28, 2009 | 1 comment
18. Deciphering Glyph: The Emacs Test (twistedmatrix.com)
19 points by falava on Feb 28, 2009 | 2 comments
19. Marissa Mayer Keynote on How Google Works (labnol.org)
18 points by awk on Feb 28, 2009 | 3 comments
20. Do Not Demo Naked (startupwhisperer.com)
17 points by flashinfremont on Feb 28, 2009 | 5 comments
21. Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt (codinghorror.com)
15 points by twampss on Feb 28, 2009 | 4 comments
22. 12 million people in USA still use dial-up (rlslog.net)
14 points by vaksel on Feb 28, 2009 | 9 comments
23. Time Travails (wired.com)
13 points by blgraves on Feb 28, 2009 | 3 comments
24. ToysRUs Buys Toys.com At Auction For $5.1 Million (techcrunch.com)
13 points by vaksel on Feb 28, 2009 | 4 comments
25. Long hours link to dementia risk (bbc.co.uk)
13 points by kqr2 on Feb 28, 2009 | 6 comments
26. Numbers Show That Movies Are Really Recession-Proof (nytimes.com)
13 points by peter123 on Feb 28, 2009 | 9 comments
27. Bad Security at Evite (fnord1.blog.ca)
13 points by ardell on Feb 28, 2009 | 22 comments
28. Ask HN: How do you do your company's taxes?
11 points by thinkcomp on Feb 28, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Brian Kernighan Interview (2000) (education, debuggers, plan9, Lucent, lots of C) (cmu.edu)
10 points by mapleoin on Feb 28, 2009 | 1 comment
30. That Voodoo That Scientists Do (seedmagazine.com)
10 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 28, 2009

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