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1. Bobby Fischer dead at 64 (cnn.com)
39 points by terpua on Jan 18, 2008 | 36 comments
2. List of Datasets on the Web (datawrangling.com)
31 points by pskomoroch on Jan 18, 2008 | 4 comments
3. Have you pondered the moral implications of your startup?
27 points by ecommercematt on Jan 18, 2008 | 34 comments
4. The Netscape Deathmarch Story (jwz.org)
24 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 | 11 comments
5. Slide raises $50M at $500M Valuation (nytimes.com)
23 points by breck on Jan 18, 2008 | 31 comments
6. My Personal Trade Deficit (slate.com)
23 points by __ on Jan 18, 2008 | 15 comments
7. Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark (typicalprogrammer.com)
22 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 | 18 comments
8. Failure Now An Option (theonion.com)
21 points by raghus on Jan 18, 2008 | 3 comments
9. Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms? (econlib.org)
20 points by weel on Jan 18, 2008 | 7 comments
10. "An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget about money." (calacanis.com)
19 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 | 13 comments
11. Dvorak: The Sun-MySQL deal stinks of Larry Ellison (marketwatch.com)
16 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 | 7 comments
12. Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?
14 points by german on Jan 18, 2008 | 91 comments
13. Text Rendering: Why Computer Displays Suck for Reading (daringfireball.net)
14 points by garret on Jan 18, 2008 | 8 comments
14. New D language pumps up programmer productivity (linux.com)
14 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 | 13 comments
15. Bionic eyes: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision (uwnews.org)
13 points by gscott on Jan 18, 2008 | 8 comments
16. Twitter's Business Model (avc.blogs.com)
13 points by bootload on Jan 18, 2008 | 5 comments
17. The $1.4 Trillion Question (What will China do with their massive US dollar holdings?) (theatlantic.com)
13 points by toffer on Jan 18, 2008 | 11 comments
18. Tesla Motors - A Letter to Customers (teslamotors.com)
11 points by auferstehung on Jan 18, 2008 | 5 comments
19. List of device bandwidths (wikipedia.org)
11 points by himanshu on Jan 18, 2008 | 3 comments
20. MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes (appleinsider.com)
11 points by getp on Jan 18, 2008 | 10 comments
21. Which notebook to get: MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro? (arstechnica.com)
11 points by getp on Jan 18, 2008 | 8 comments
22. Flash Tutorials (smashingmagazine.com)
10 points by kirubakaran on Jan 18, 2008
23. MapReduce: A major step backwards (databasecolumn.com)
10 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 | 5 comments
24. Most of the world's great music is out of copyright and waiting to be free (songseed.com)
9 points by cratuki on Jan 18, 2008 | 6 comments
25. Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Play Poker (wired.com)
9 points by mqt on Jan 18, 2008 | 4 comments
26. Kevin Rose doesn't deny Digg has secret editors (valleywag.com)
7 points by transburgh on Jan 18, 2008 | 1 comment
27. Digg's secret editors (valleywag.com)
8 points by transburgh on Jan 18, 2008
28. Generate mp3 files from Wikipedia (fernuni-hagen.de)
8 points by terpua on Jan 18, 2008 | 2 comments
29. 8 Ways to Find IT Talent for an Undesirable Location (makingitclear.com)
8 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 | 1 comment
30. FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available (freebsd.org)
7 points by cperciva on Jan 18, 2008

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