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1. Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless (pragmatictheory.blogspot.com)
69 points by bdr on Aug 15, 2008 | 31 comments
2. Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame (techcrunch.com)
61 points by fallentimes on Aug 15, 2008 | 54 comments
3. Million dollar gas hack. (greenwala.com)
50 points by humanlever on Aug 15, 2008 | 18 comments
4. The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean for Earth? (dailygalaxy.com)
50 points by gibsonf1 on Aug 15, 2008 | 29 comments
5. Mozilla SSL policy bad for the Web (uml.edu)
49 points by nickb on Aug 15, 2008 | 86 comments
6. Acquisition/Investment vs. Bootstrapping (heroku.com)
49 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 15, 2008 | 12 comments
7. Serving static files with Django and AWS - going fast on a budget (eventseer.net)
41 points by brox on Aug 15, 2008 | 5 comments
8. CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down - Old, yet relevant (techcrunch.com)
39 points by senthil_rajasek on Aug 15, 2008 | 25 comments
9. Ask HN: Best resources on SEO
32 points by adnandot on Aug 15, 2008 | 17 comments
10. Voting Machines (xkcd.com)
32 points by aneesh on Aug 15, 2008 | 23 comments
11. MapReduce in Erlang (weblambdazero.blogspot.com)
31 points by 13ren on Aug 15, 2008 | 13 comments
12. Why We're Failing in Math and Science (oreilly.com)
28 points by toffer on Aug 15, 2008 | 40 comments
13. Hakmem: classic programming hacks (inwap.com)
22 points by hhm on Aug 15, 2008 | 7 comments
14. XML Backlash? (ajaxonomy.com)
20 points by 13ren on Aug 15, 2008 | 43 comments
15. RMS interviewed on Radio NZ (inode.co.nz)
19 points by jgamman on Aug 15, 2008 | 20 comments
16. VMware: Don't shut down that virtual machine (cnet.com)
19 points by senthil_rajasek on Aug 15, 2008 | 14 comments
17. YC Summer 08 Demo Day: Best Batch Ever (onstartups.com)
18 points by webwright on Aug 15, 2008 | 6 comments
18. Global Popularity of Programming Languages (lethain.com)
15 points by mariorz on Aug 15, 2008 | 5 comments
19. ScanMyPhotos: 1000 photos scanned for $50 (nytimes.com)
15 points by kf on Aug 15, 2008 | 1 comment
20. Microsoft's video accidentally reveals that they have only ~200k servers (istartedsomething.com)
14 points by gaika on Aug 15, 2008 | 12 comments
21. 10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far) (cnet.com)
13 points by nickb on Aug 15, 2008 | 3 comments
22. What Comes After the Windows Era? (linuxjournal.com)
12 points by edw519 on Aug 15, 2008 | 17 comments
23. Django 1.0 beta 1 released (djangoproject.com)
11 points by zain on Aug 15, 2008 | 1 comment
24. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene (washington.edu)
11 points by sarosh on Aug 15, 2008 | 3 comments
25. Too Much Revenue, Not Enough Growth (tomevslin.com)
11 points by toffer on Aug 15, 2008 | 2 comments
26. Y Combinator's August 2008 Demo Day in Cambridge (innoeco.com)
9 points by raghus on Aug 15, 2008
27. Add keyboard shortcuts to Hacker News (userscripts.org)
9 points by jauco on Aug 15, 2008 | 5 comments
28. Our Weekend Social Experiment (techcrunch.com)
9 points by drm237 on Aug 15, 2008 | 2 comments
29. T-Mobile Is Dreaming Of Android Riches. And It Might Have To Keep Dreaming. (techcrunch.com)
8 points by terpua on Aug 15, 2008 | 5 comments
30. Netflix’s Product is Bloated & Outdated… Attention iPhone App Gallery (ryanspoon.com)
7 points by kimboslice on Aug 15, 2008 | 3 comments

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