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1. Is poverty self-perpetuating? (boston.com)
61 points by kradic on April 6, 2008 | 72 comments
2. Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life (positivityblog.com)
37 points by laktek on April 6, 2008 | 7 comments
3. More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy (nytimes.com)
35 points by grotius on April 6, 2008 | 50 comments
4. The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker's Bookshelf (grok-code.com)
35 points by nreece on April 6, 2008 | 47 comments
5. The True Price of SMS Messages (gthing.net)
33 points by chaostheory on April 6, 2008 | 43 comments
6. Blizzard has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business (freedomblogging.com)
26 points by gordianknot on April 6, 2008 | 3 comments
7. Waf: a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. (code.google.com)
22 points by chaostheory on April 6, 2008 | 8 comments
8. Non-Advertising Business Models for Your Startup (johnndege.com)
24 points by JohnN on April 6, 2008 | 9 comments
9. Choosing Languages (googlepages.com)
24 points by bootload on April 6, 2008 | 8 comments
10. Video: College Student Builds Paintball Tank (breitbart.tv)
24 points by ckinnan on April 6, 2008 | 9 comments
11. Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users (highscalability.com)
22 points by gongfudoi on April 6, 2008 | 1 comment
12. Solutions to Exercises in "ANSI Common Lisp" (automatous-monk.com)
23 points by paul_reiners on April 6, 2008
13. Ask YC: What methods do you use to manage your time?
21 points by vikram on April 6, 2008 | 26 comments
14. Ants and the nature of their intelligence (stanford.edu)
19 points by comatose_kid on April 6, 2008 | 5 comments
15. How to pick the right business partner (davidalison.com)
19 points by drm237 on April 6, 2008 | 1 comment
16. Trying to get to Stanford for Startup School (rurl.org)
18 points by philcrissman on April 6, 2008 | 7 comments
17. Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app?
18 points by shafqat on April 6, 2008 | 13 comments
18. Ask YC: Speed reading?
17 points by rguzman on April 6, 2008 | 39 comments
19. Taking On the World - how the U.S. can become competitive again (wsj.com)
15 points by nickb on April 6, 2008 | 8 comments
20. Notes from Valentine’s Day - Knuth Lecture Notes (thermalnoise.wordpress.com)
12 points by nickb on April 6, 2008 | 1 comment
21. Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
13 points by garbowza on April 6, 2008 | 6 comments
22. Latent Semantic Analysis in Python (joesniff.co.uk)
13 points by nickb on April 6, 2008
23. A VC: The Declining Power Of The Firm (avc.blogs.com)
13 points by toffer on April 6, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Stop Dreaming. Start Building. (twincommas.com)
13 points by logjam on April 6, 2008 | 8 comments
25. Creeping Up on Riemann (sciencenews.org)
10 points by nickb on April 6, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Life with the MacBook Air (tuaw.com)
11 points by pius on April 6, 2008 | 6 comments
27. Nasty Bug: Safari doesn’t cache stuff. (smugmug.com)
10 points by prakash on April 6, 2008 | 8 comments
28. Latent Semantic Analysis . . . in Ruby! (apologies to nickb) (rubyforge.org)
10 points by pius on April 6, 2008 | 2 comments
29. Facebook Chat Launches, For Some (techcrunch.com)
8 points by r7000 on April 6, 2008 | 5 comments
30. Improvements in Firebug 1.2 (railsjedi.com)
9 points by dkasper on April 6, 2008 | 2 comments

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