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1. Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them (smartnow.com)
90 points by jkopelman on July 31, 2008 | 34 comments
2. Zed Shaw is angry about feed readers (zedshaw.com)
59 points by henning on July 31, 2008 | 32 comments
3. Five Open Questions in Email (gaborcselle.com)
51 points by demandred on July 31, 2008 | 25 comments
4. Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real (techcrunch.com)
42 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 31, 2008 | 24 comments
5. The NetFlix of Junk (cnn.com)
39 points by t0pj on July 31, 2008 | 9 comments
6. Ask YC: Why the excitement over XMPP on the backend?
39 points by gstar on July 31, 2008 | 31 comments
7. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization (xach.com)
36 points by soundsop on July 31, 2008 | 8 comments
8. The Pirates Can't Be Stopped (portfolio.com)
34 points by raganwald on July 31, 2008 | 9 comments
9. Python insights (thegreenplace.net)
34 points by pavel on July 31, 2008 | 17 comments
10. Walt Mossberg (WSJ) loves Xobni (wsj.com)
34 points by brezina on July 31, 2008 | 15 comments
11. 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at almost Anything. (lifehack.org)
30 points by azharcs on July 31, 2008 | 24 comments
12. R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 (pcmag.com)
28 points by gaika on July 31, 2008 | 8 comments
13. Website traders get rich quick (theage.com.au)
28 points by bootload on July 31, 2008 | 20 comments
14. Detached Lever Fallacy (overcomingbias.com)
27 points by gaika on July 31, 2008 | 4 comments
15. My Startup project: Qhoga.com (qhoga.com)
27 points by okeumeni on July 31, 2008 | 38 comments
16. Early Adopters, I Need You (ourdoings.com)
23 points by gaika on July 31, 2008 | 15 comments
17. Corporate Venture Capital (argument against Google VC) (avc.blogs.com)
21 points by terpua on July 31, 2008 | 6 comments
18. Building an Object-Oriented Parasitic Metalanguage (moserware.com)
21 points by baha_man on July 31, 2008
19. Yale Fights to Keep Student Start-Ups From Defecting to Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
19 points by daveambrose on July 31, 2008 | 37 comments
20. Guy Steele on Programming Languages (infoq.com)
20 points by davidw on July 31, 2008 | 9 comments
21. A simple Unix daemon in Python (jejik.com)
18 points by soundsop on July 31, 2008 | 8 comments
22. Scrabulous Relaunches Under A New Facebook App Name Called Wordscraper (pulse2.com)
17 points by nickb on July 31, 2008 | 11 comments
23. Ask HN: How do you keep motivated?
17 points by dhotson on July 31, 2008 | 28 comments
24. Google To Launch Venture Fund (techcrunch.com)
16 points by ashish1 on July 31, 2008 | 16 comments
25. Chris Sacca: Couldn't be happier for Omnisio (whatisleft.org)
14 points by prakash on July 31, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Google Developing Formal VC Arm (cnet.com)
15 points by dkasper on July 31, 2008 | 4 comments
27. Caterina Fake (Flickr founder) joins Hunch (caterina.net)
15 points by joao on July 31, 2008 | 3 comments
28. Del.icio.us 2.0 (now delicious.com) (delicious.com)
14 points by ericwan on July 31, 2008 | 9 comments
29. Ask YC: Duplicate Posts
14 points by izak30 on July 31, 2008 | 19 comments
30. Open Source and Cloud Computing (oreilly.com)
13 points by tomh on July 31, 2008 | 1 comment

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