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1. Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C
140 points by scumola on Sept 9, 2008 | 120 comments
2. Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)
102 points by kf on Sept 9, 2008 | 39 comments
3. Plan B for Fundraising (Guy Kawasaki making sense) (openforum.com)
73 points by sabat on Sept 9, 2008 | 27 comments
4. Ask HN: Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job
56 points by cnu on Sept 9, 2008 | 37 comments
5. Can a Human See a Single Photon? (ucr.edu)
51 points by hhm on Sept 9, 2008 | 12 comments
6. Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay (techcrunch.com)
51 points by raghus on Sept 9, 2008 | 53 comments
7. Talking Stocks (blogmaverick.com)
48 points by prakash on Sept 9, 2008 | 27 comments
8. Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows (arstechnica.com)
45 points by nreece on Sept 9, 2008 | 10 comments
9. Move over T9, here comes Swype (cnet.com)
40 points by ttol on Sept 9, 2008 | 24 comments
10. Learning the craft (of programming) (tuxdeluxe.org)
39 points by luckystrike on Sept 9, 2008 | 6 comments
11. At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating (nytimes.com)
39 points by bootload on Sept 9, 2008 | 10 comments
12. Why the Google Chrome Comic Rocked - Scott McCloud’s “Invisible Art” (krisjordan.com)
38 points by KrisJordan on Sept 9, 2008 | 10 comments
13. New multi-page HTTP compression proposal from Google (w3.org)
38 points by dmv on Sept 9, 2008 | 13 comments
14. Food for thought - Eat your way to a better brain (economist.com)
36 points by robg on Sept 9, 2008 | 15 comments
15. The MD6 hash function (rough notes) (mail-archive.com)
35 points by soundsop on Sept 9, 2008 | 4 comments
16. Ford Makes 65 mpg Car, but can't Sell it in the United States (businessweek.com)
27 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 9, 2008 | 16 comments
17. TechCrunch50 has few younger first time entrepreneuers (drama20show.com)
26 points by skmurphy on Sept 9, 2008 | 12 comments
18. Analysis of Amazon Mechanical Turk's data quality (doloreslabs.com)
24 points by lukas on Sept 9, 2008 | 3 comments
19. 1608 hours of work logged since November using RescueTime (ivankirigin.posterous.com)
23 points by ivankirigin on Sept 9, 2008 | 21 comments
20. Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math?
23 points by unalone on Sept 9, 2008 | 19 comments
21. If you don’t “get” Facebook and Twitter, read this NY Times article (lsvp.wordpress.com)
20 points by lemonysnicket on Sept 9, 2008 | 17 comments
22. Merb's radical (but very cool) new caching mechanism (merbunity.com)
20 points by pius on Sept 9, 2008 | 5 comments
23. 20 Useful Visualization Libraries (abeautifulwww.com)
19 points by nreece on Sept 9, 2008 | 3 comments
24. Gamer backlash against Spore DRM (arstechnica.com)
19 points by jwilliams on Sept 9, 2008 | 11 comments
25. Ubuntu 9.04 to be called Jaunty Jackalope (arstechnica.com)
16 points by kirubakaran on Sept 9, 2008 | 17 comments
26. Universal currency sign (37signals.com)
16 points by pbnaidu on Sept 9, 2008 | 6 comments
27. 3-D printing migrates to consumer market (boston.com)
16 points by erictobia on Sept 9, 2008 | 3 comments
28. Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit (wsj.com)
16 points by prakash on Sept 9, 2008 | 6 comments
29. United Airlines Briefly Lost 75% of its Value Because of Story from 2002 (nytimes.com)
16 points by ojbyrne on Sept 9, 2008 | 13 comments
30. 23andMe makes personalized genetics more affordable (23andme.com)
15 points by russ on Sept 9, 2008 | 15 comments

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