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1. The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?) (docs.google.com)
127 points by yummyfajitas on March 18, 2008 | 25 comments
2. Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 (ap.google.com)
90 points by kf on March 18, 2008 | 16 comments
3. Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting". (inspectd.com)
53 points by ssanders82 on March 18, 2008 | 49 comments
4. Solo Entrepreneurs: Big Bucks from Tiny Computing Startups (informationweek.com)
47 points by papa on March 18, 2008 | 17 comments
5. Mark Pilgrim on Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” (diveintomark.org)
46 points by nickb on March 18, 2008 | 5 comments
6. Apple sales soar to capture 14% of US PC retail sales (zdnet.com)
40 points by edw519 on March 18, 2008 | 23 comments
7. Would you accept a buyout offer that made you rich but you still felt was undervalued?
37 points by os111 on March 18, 2008 | 46 comments
8. Ask YC: Any newbie coders?
36 points by willphipps on March 18, 2008 | 30 comments
9. Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass. (gigaom.com)
33 points by immad on March 18, 2008 | 21 comments
10. Joel is from Mars, browsers are from Venus (opera.com)
34 points by muriithi on March 18, 2008 | 3 comments
11. Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page
33 points by PStamatiou on March 18, 2008 | 41 comments
12. Apple releases Safari 3.1 (macworld.com)
32 points by naish on March 18, 2008 | 18 comments
13. The Feel Good Initiative. Discover new music daily. (thefeelgood.com)
27 points by andr on March 18, 2008 | 35 comments
14. 10 tips for optimizing mysql queries (20bits.com)
25 points by azsromej on March 18, 2008 | 2 comments
15. The hidden cost principle (david.weebly.com)
24 points by drusenko on March 18, 2008 | 9 comments
16. Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? (codinghorror.com)
24 points by e1ven on March 18, 2008 | 9 comments
17. U of Waterloo: All intro CS courses use Scheme (for Math students too!) (compsci.ca)
23 points by pchristensen on March 18, 2008 | 20 comments
18. Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux (lifehacker.com)
19 points by marrone on March 18, 2008 | 5 comments
19. Performance comparison: Rails 1.2.6 vs 2.0.2 (plan99.net)
19 points by nickb on March 18, 2008 | 3 comments
20. Yahoo's "Unlimited" Email Hits Its Limit (wsj.com)
18 points by jmorin007 on March 18, 2008 | 4 comments
21. Sci-fi guru Arthur Clarke dies at 90 (msn.com)
18 points by edw519 on March 18, 2008 | 1 comment
22. The .NET Framework is big. Really, really big. (codebetter.com)
17 points by iamelgringo on March 18, 2008 | 14 comments
23. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (nist.gov)
17 points by brooksbp on March 18, 2008
24. The Problem With 1,000 True Fans (scalzi.com)
17 points by bootload on March 18, 2008 | 1 comment
25. Performance comparison of FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 4.11 and Dragonfly BSD 1.12 (freebsd.org)
16 points by gongfudoi on March 18, 2008 | 13 comments
26. Why Is There No New "Einstein"? (scribd.com)
16 points by neilc on March 18, 2008 | 33 comments
27. Good Luck at Demo Day
15 points by drm237 on March 18, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Why good developers don't need a resume (hedgehoglab.com)
15 points by hhm on March 18, 2008 | 3 comments
29. Does FriendFeed Solve a Problem, or Highlight One? (readwriteweb.com)
13 points by jmorin007 on March 18, 2008 | 1 comment
30. Elitism is the new black? A karma whoring social network idea
12 points by Raphael on March 18, 2008 | 18 comments

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