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1. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage (amazon.com)
90 points by tortilla on Aug 21, 2008 | 34 comments
2. Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument (wired.com)
83 points by smanek on Aug 21, 2008 | 37 comments
3. Very Long-Term Backup (kk.org)
82 points by nreece on Aug 21, 2008 | 28 comments
4. Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company (alleyinsider.com)
55 points by daviday on Aug 21, 2008 | 16 comments
5. The Difference Between Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists (greenspun.com)
40 points by smanek on Aug 21, 2008 | 30 comments
6. Why we need more Hacker Meetups, by Ian Hogarth of Songkick (techcrunch.com)
39 points by danw on Aug 21, 2008 | 15 comments
7. Poll: How late do you stay up?
39 points by Raphael on Aug 21, 2008 | 68 comments
8. JustHackIt now for sale on SitePoint within 24 hours of being on TechCrunch (centernetworks.com)
38 points by alaskamiller on Aug 21, 2008 | 30 comments
9. Three Dimensional Images in the Air (aist.go.jp)
34 points by fkrueger on Aug 21, 2008 | 14 comments
10. Don't Copy a Design — Steal It (usabilitypost.com)
34 points by puns on Aug 21, 2008 | 10 comments
11. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0 (readwriteweb.com)
32 points by mattjung on Aug 21, 2008 | 8 comments
12. Woz urges engineers to follow their hearts (cnet.com)
32 points by nickb on Aug 21, 2008 | 7 comments
13. IHollogram for iPhone - illusion of a 3d hologram jumping off the screen (vid) (davidoreilly.com)
30 points by nickb on Aug 21, 2008 | 5 comments
14. If the world's greatest chef cooked for a living, he'd starve (guardian.co.uk)
30 points by DaniFong on Aug 21, 2008 | 22 comments
15. A Deeply Skeptical Look at C++0x (importantshock.wordpress.com)
30 points by Anon84 on Aug 21, 2008 | 32 comments
16. Simple tutorial to give your site an iPhone interface (nettuts.com)
28 points by ca98am79 on Aug 21, 2008 | 1 comment
17. Keep found things found, search Delicious 2.0 on Google with WebMynd (YC Winter 08) (cnet.com)
25 points by amirnathoo on Aug 21, 2008 | 1 comment
18. Signal vs Noise Rebuilt in Squarespace CMS in 18 Minutes (squarespace.com)
22 points by arc on Aug 21, 2008 | 10 comments
19. What it's like to work at Xobni (interview) (snaptalent.com)
22 points by girk on Aug 21, 2008 | 2 comments
20. Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way (broxrost.com)
22 points by brox on Aug 21, 2008 | 4 comments
21. Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents (timshowers.com)
20 points by robg on Aug 21, 2008 | 2 comments
22. How To: Live the Cloud Life (paulstamatiou.com)
20 points by PStamatiou on Aug 21, 2008 | 1 comment
23. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained (rightscale.com)
19 points by gasull on Aug 21, 2008
24. Jerry Seinfeld to Push Vista for $10 Million (appscout.com)
18 points by blogimus on Aug 21, 2008 | 33 comments
25. MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer (catonmat.net)
18 points by ajbatac on Aug 21, 2008 | 7 comments
26. Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years (sickos.org)
17 points by gopher on Aug 21, 2008 | 11 comments
27. ZSFA -- The Freehacker's Union (zedshaw.com)
16 points by inklesspen on Aug 21, 2008 | 2 comments
28. Tricks Facebook uses to synchronizes geographically distributed databases (facebook.com)
16 points by iamelgringo on Aug 21, 2008
29. Check In Early, Check In Often (codinghorror.com)
15 points by Anon84 on Aug 21, 2008 | 6 comments
30. Robot Has Rat Brain (livescience.com)
15 points by humanlever on Aug 21, 2008 | 4 comments

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