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1. Rails 2.1 Released: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc (rubyonrails.org)
36 points by nickb on June 1, 2008 | 5 comments
2. Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling issues (blog.twitter.com)
32 points by lyime on June 1, 2008 | 31 comments
3. Avi Bryant: MagLev recap (avibryant.com)
30 points by toffer on June 1, 2008 | 21 comments
4. Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers, 7,500 Customers (allheadlinenews.com)
32 points by nickb on June 1, 2008 | 15 comments
5. For all the chemistry geeks... (touchspin.com)
28 points by iamelgringo on June 1, 2008 | 4 comments
6. Cuckoo hashing (wikipedia.org)
25 points by neilc on June 1, 2008 | 9 comments
7. Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack (codinghorror.com)
23 points by bdfh42 on June 1, 2008 | 6 comments
8. Ask YC: Best Practices for User Authentication
23 points by markbao on June 1, 2008 | 49 comments
9. Ask HN: Ethics and laws regarding scraping websites?
22 points by schtog on June 1, 2008 | 24 comments
10. Popularity Algorithms
21 points by Anon84 on June 1, 2008 | 12 comments
11. Ask YC: can we collectively figure out how to neutralize eBay?
20 points by dhbradshaw on June 1, 2008 | 42 comments
12. A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First (nytimes.com)
20 points by robg on June 1, 2008 | 3 comments
13. Why we should love logarithms (nature.com)
19 points by bdfh42 on June 1, 2008 | 1 comment
14. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom (timesonline.co.uk)
15 points by gaika on June 1, 2008 | 17 comments
15. Vernor Vinge: Signs of the Singularity (ieee.org)
14 points by erik on June 1, 2008 | 19 comments
16. Fred Wilson: My Vision For Social Media (avc.blogs.com)
14 points by markbao on June 1, 2008
17. Do Bayesian statistics rule the brain? (mindhacks.com)
13 points by dood on June 1, 2008 | 26 comments
18. Google's BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon's SimpleDB (highscalability.com)
12 points by pbnaidu on June 1, 2008 | 17 comments
19. The Planet faces 24 hours of downtime for 9000 servers in their primary datacenter (theplanet.com)
12 points by e1ven on June 1, 2008 | 9 comments
20. Freeman Dyson's Brain (wired.com)
12 points by prakash on June 1, 2008 | 12 comments
21. Charles Oliver Nutter On Maglev (headius.blogspot.com)
10 points by prakash on June 1, 2008 | 4 comments
22. MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout (antoniocangiano.com)
10 points by acangiano on June 1, 2008 | 5 comments
23. What we talk about when we talk about singularity (roughtype.com)
9 points by bdfh42 on June 1, 2008 | 9 comments
24. "Break In" At TechCrunch HQ Yesterday (entrepreneur breaks in and pitches his startup) (techcrunch.com)
8 points by nickb on June 1, 2008 | 5 comments
25. Should you fire the voice mail guy? (sethgodin.typepad.com)
8 points by bdfh42 on June 1, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Office Snapshot - Friendfeed HQ (officesnapshots.com)
8 points by kyro on June 1, 2008 | 5 comments
27. Three Different Meanings of "Singularity" (singinst.org)
8 points by eyudkowsky on June 1, 2008 | 2 comments
28. Ask YC: Widget for allowing visitors to import Gmail Address Book?
8 points by breck on June 1, 2008 | 15 comments
29. Where Google AppEngine beats AWS (adamfisk.wordpress.com)
8 points by olefoo on June 1, 2008 | 4 comments
30. Ask YC: Autodidactic Degree Programs?
7 points by tjr on June 1, 2008 | 16 comments

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