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1. Scribd launches new platform and iPaper (readwriteweb.com)
53 points by naish on Feb 19, 2008 | 35 comments
2. Fidel Castro retires (bbc.co.uk)
47 points by hollywoodcole on Feb 19, 2008 | 44 comments
3. Startup School 2008 (foundersatwork.com)
37 points by jmorin007 on Feb 19, 2008 | 24 comments
4. Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes (useit.com)
38 points by unfoldedorigami on Feb 19, 2008 | 5 comments
5. Memcachedb (db) is a distributed key-value storage system designed for persistence (code.google.com)
35 points by staunch on Feb 19, 2008 | 7 comments
6. Duncan Watts vs. Malcolm Gladwell: Mathematician turned sociologist challenges "Tipping Point" idea. (fastcompany.com)
28 points by fiaz on Feb 19, 2008 | 7 comments
7. Ask YC Poll: Which is your favorite YC startup?
27 points by mercurio on Feb 19, 2008 | 39 comments
8. Yahoo Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application (yahoo.com)
25 points by toffer on Feb 19, 2008 | 6 comments
9. 8 Big Eating Mistakes You Are Still Making (diethack.com)
24 points by german on Feb 19, 2008 | 20 comments
10. Aviary - 18 different web-based graphics tools (viary.com)
23 points by nickb on Feb 19, 2008 | 13 comments
11. Software Engineering Proverbs (multicians.org)
18 points by brk on Feb 19, 2008 | 9 comments
12. Parents Rise Up Against A New Approach to Math (washingtonpost.com)
17 points by kradic on Feb 19, 2008 | 27 comments
13. Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph] (flickr.com)
16 points by redorb on Feb 19, 2008 | 7 comments
14. Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso (techcrunch.com)
13 points by mattculbreth on Feb 19, 2008 | 10 comments
15. While Digg gets more mainstream, the story sources diversity is eroding (readwriteweb.com)
14 points by cawel on Feb 19, 2008 | 5 comments
16. Schneier on lock-in (schneier.com)
14 points by brlittle on Feb 19, 2008 | 5 comments
17. Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already?
14 points by mercurio on Feb 19, 2008 | 26 comments
18. Silicon Valley Losing Middle-Wage Jobs (nytimes.com)
13 points by dskhatri on Feb 19, 2008 | 14 comments
19. Rental Car IT - as bad as it gets? (memeagora.blogspot.com)
11 points by bdfh42 on Feb 19, 2008 | 5 comments
20. Will YouNoodle Predict Its Own Inevitable Failure? (techcrunch.com)
11 points by nickb on Feb 19, 2008 | 15 comments
21. Scribd Steps Up Its Game With iPaper (techcrunch.com)
11 points by danielha on Feb 19, 2008 | 1 comment
22. America's economy risks the mother of all meltdowns (yahoo.com)
11 points by gibsonf1 on Feb 19, 2008 | 3 comments
23. Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions (linux.com)
11 points by auferstehung on Feb 19, 2008 | 2 comments
24. When trolls had class... (youtube.com)
11 points by sbraford on Feb 19, 2008 | 11 comments
25. The Attention Economy (firstmonday.org)
10 points by michael_nielsen on Feb 19, 2008 | 7 comments
26. Ask YC: Hard time at a startup
9 points by KayJayKay on Feb 19, 2008 | 6 comments
27. Mozilla Messaging (ascher.ca)
9 points by karthikv on Feb 19, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Arc now has a stand-alone interpreter (arclanguage.org)
9 points by kf on Feb 19, 2008
29. Google Sued Over Google Sky Feature (enews20.com)
9 points by auferstehung on Feb 19, 2008 | 11 comments
30. NYT: Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo (nytimes.com)
8 points by twampss on Feb 19, 2008

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