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1. Essential Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks (siafoo.net)
90 points by rockstar9 on May 21, 2008 | 25 comments
2. Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance (guardian.co.uk)
65 points by graywh on May 21, 2008 | 56 comments
3. PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter (codinghorror.com)
62 points by VinzO on May 21, 2008 | 59 comments
4. Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?
60 points by robertk on May 21, 2008 | 52 comments
5. Giles Bowkett: Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die? (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
53 points by gaika on May 21, 2008 | 63 comments
6. New Common Lisp book announced, bills itself as a sequel to On Lisp. (groups.google.com)
53 points by dfranke on May 21, 2008 | 15 comments
7. YourWeek: a reddit-powered TV news program by PBS (reddit.com)
39 points by kn0thing on May 21, 2008 | 10 comments
8. James Simons: former mathematician and now billionaire hedge fund manager (seedmagazine.com)
26 points by getp on May 21, 2008 | 14 comments
9. Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned (techcrunch.com)
26 points by nickb on May 21, 2008 | 11 comments
10. A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
25 points by pchristensen on May 21, 2008 | 59 comments
11. Why Small Really Is Beautiful (gigaom.com)
22 points by shuleatt on May 21, 2008
12. Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet (wired.com)
22 points by edw519 on May 21, 2008 | 4 comments
13. Ask YC: To The Young, How Supportive Are Your Parents?
22 points by rockstar9 on May 21, 2008 | 23 comments
14. Hash functions: theoretical basics, mixing, and evaluations of algorithms (comcast.net)
20 points by nreece on May 21, 2008 | 6 comments
15. Incense is psychoactive: It's good for your brain (thinkgene.com)
21 points by chaostheory on May 21, 2008 | 3 comments
16. You Don’t Have To Be The Next Big Thing (howtosplitanatom.com)
18 points by breily on May 21, 2008
17. Ask PG: The difference between instinct and emotion?
18 points by langer on May 21, 2008 | 23 comments
18. How to read a business book (sethgodin.typepad.com)
17 points by getp on May 21, 2008 | 23 comments
19. Chatterous works better than Twitter on mobile (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
15 points by arasakik on May 21, 2008 | 32 comments
20. Geohashing (xkcd.com)
16 points by sant0sk1 on May 21, 2008 | 10 comments
21. The no-framework PHP MVC framework (lerdorf.com)
16 points by t0pj on May 21, 2008 | 3 comments
22. Python snippet to find available two-letter domain names for some TLDs (paste2.org)
15 points by thorax on May 21, 2008 | 7 comments
23. Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco (swtch.com)
14 points by luckystrike on May 21, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Microsoft Doloto: Download Time Optimizer (microsoft.com)
12 points by nreece on May 21, 2008 | 1 comment
25. Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users (techcrunch.com)
11 points by nickb on May 21, 2008 | 10 comments
26. The Right Stuff: Building The Team (gaborcselle.com)
10 points by wumi on May 21, 2008 | 3 comments
27. The Safest Seat To Sit On A Plane Is... (flowingdata.com)
10 points by neilc on May 21, 2008 | 10 comments
28. Ask YC: Code Digesting
9 points by nsrivast on May 21, 2008 | 14 comments
29. 100x Lisp Speed Improvement (Using Lisp faster than C paper techniques) (news.ycombinator.com)
9 points by gibsonf1 on May 21, 2008
30. Is Your Web Site Fast Enough for Google? (wsj.com)
9 points by jakewolf on May 21, 2008 | 3 comments

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