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1. Founders at Work - now in paperback (foundersatwork.com)
46 points by jedc on Sept 17, 2008 | 23 comments
2. Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts (photobucket.com)
44 points by vaksel on Sept 17, 2008 | 73 comments
3. Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google) (ft.com)
43 points by nickb on Sept 17, 2008 | 28 comments
4. Dead man's switch via email (deadmansswitch.net)
42 points by shard on Sept 17, 2008 | 31 comments
5. The Seed of Apple's Innovation (businessweek.com)
37 points by maurycy on Sept 17, 2008 | 11 comments
6. Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundreds Of Millions of Dollars (techcrunch.com)
33 points by jkopelman on Sept 17, 2008 | 47 comments
7. Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months (mashable.com)
30 points by nickb on Sept 17, 2008 | 47 comments
8. Google Launches Audio Indexing (techcrunch.com)
28 points by bdotdub on Sept 17, 2008 | 6 comments
9. Aesthetics Send A Message (mattmaroon.com)
26 points by mattmaroon on Sept 17, 2008 | 32 comments
10. Rumor: Google to buy Valve (videogame developer/publisher) (theinquirer.net)
24 points by chaostheory on Sept 17, 2008 | 33 comments
11. What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon (stackoverflow.com)
24 points by jmatt on Sept 17, 2008 | 11 comments
12. Be A Man, Run As The Root Account (garyshood.com)
24 points by alaskamiller on Sept 17, 2008 | 32 comments
13. A Modest Proposal (zeldman.com)
23 points by martian on Sept 17, 2008 | 43 comments
14. Why IE will continue to win the enterprise browser wars (infoworld.com)
19 points by snydeq on Sept 17, 2008 | 21 comments
15. Accounting for Taste: Choices in books, movies, music, and art go to the core of self. (psychologytoday.com)
19 points by fiaz on Sept 17, 2008 | 9 comments
16. Dojo 1.2 and Django 1.0 on Google App Engine 1.1.3 (adamfisk.wordpress.com)
18 points by ltaylor on Sept 17, 2008 | 2 comments
17. Yet Another Critique My Startup: Face Detection & Photo Organization
18 points by whalesalad on Sept 17, 2008 | 20 comments
18. Verifiable Functional Purity in Java (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
16 points by qhoxie on Sept 17, 2008 | 3 comments
19. Anatomy of real-time Linux architectures (ibm.com)
13 points by qhoxie on Sept 17, 2008
20. David Heinemeier Hansson - Go REST with Rails - Web 2.0 NY Talk (krisjordan.com)
13 points by KrisJordan on Sept 17, 2008 | 1 comment
21. V8 Internals by Kevin Millikin (ajaxian.com)
13 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 17, 2008 | 1 comment
22. Erlang: Introduction to Releases; packaging code for deployment (spawnlink.com)
14 points by mitchellh on Sept 17, 2008
23. Tech "Guru" Riles the Industry By Seeking Huge Patent Fees (wsj.com)
11 points by nickb on Sept 17, 2008 | 12 comments
24. Facebook Users Who Hate Change Making Facebook Developers Hate Facebook Users (alleyinsider.com)
11 points by pakafka on Sept 17, 2008 | 7 comments
25. Google shows off final Android handset (techradar.com)
11 points by nickb on Sept 17, 2008
26. Tesla Motors Picks San Jose for $250 Million 'Model S' Plant and HQ (treehugger.com)
10 points by MikeCapone on Sept 17, 2008 | 9 comments
27. The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment Or Fabulous Failure? (withy.org)
10 points by parenthesis on Sept 17, 2008 | 7 comments
28. Im in
10 points by gsin on Sept 17, 2008 | 13 comments
29. Dropbox should have used a Jumpbox (thenextweb.org)
10 points by agentbleu on Sept 17, 2008 | 9 comments
30. In acquiring Merrill Lynch, must Bank of America open source its software? (cnet.com)
9 points by nickb on Sept 17, 2008 | 5 comments

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