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1. The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google? (slate.com)
103 points by gabrielroth on Aug 14, 2008 | 55 comments
2. Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows (shoooes.net)
91 points by alex_c on Aug 14, 2008 | 22 comments
3. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene (video) (vimeo.com)
51 points by joshwa on Aug 14, 2008 | 10 comments
4. Should I give up?
49 points by anaphoric on Aug 14, 2008 | 47 comments
5. Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008 (techcrunch.com)
44 points by jaydub on Aug 14, 2008 | 19 comments
6. Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer (nature.com)
41 points by bk on Aug 14, 2008 | 51 comments
7. Co2Stats (YC summer 08) compensates for your site pollution (techcrunch.com)
33 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 14, 2008 | 18 comments
8. Why Safe Kids Are Becoming Fat Kids (wsj.com)
40 points by pg on Aug 14, 2008 | 51 comments
9. Hello World! AppJet Opens Browser-Based JavaScript School (techcrunch.com)
33 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 14, 2008 | 7 comments
10. TicketStumbler.com (YC Summer 08): a new way to find tickets (ticketnews.com)
35 points by fallentimes on Aug 14, 2008 | 43 comments
11. Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 -- Est. $825K Sales In First Week (alleyinsider.com)
34 points by vascoos01 on Aug 14, 2008 | 15 comments
12. Living the freelance life while keeping your sanity (maxvoltar.com)
34 points by danw on Aug 14, 2008 | 3 comments
13. How the Large Hadron Collider proton beam is turned off (ieee.org)
34 points by mhb on Aug 14, 2008 | 15 comments
14. China's children buckling under the pressure of their parents' deferred dreams (psychologytoday.com)
33 points by crocus on Aug 14, 2008 | 26 comments
15. Einstein versus Peer Review... (aip.org)
29 points by DaniFong on Aug 14, 2008 | 7 comments
16. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninjas (codinghorror.com)
29 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 14, 2008 | 9 comments
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy (herpolhode.com)
28 points by orib on Aug 14, 2008 | 32 comments
18. The Y Combinator, or How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing (mvanier.livejournal.com)
27 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2008 | 18 comments
19. Yelp 'pay to play' pitch makes shops scream for help (theregister.co.uk)
26 points by alex_c on Aug 14, 2008 | 7 comments
20. Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
24 points by soundsop on Aug 14, 2008 | 11 comments
21. Well, we're profitable, time to scale... (200nipples.com)
24 points by wmeredith on Aug 14, 2008 | 18 comments
22. RIAA pays Tanya Andersen $107,951 (p2pnet.net)
20 points by raju on Aug 14, 2008 | 11 comments
23. Anyvite (YC Summer 08) in the Boston Thrillist (thrillist.com)
18 points by drm237 on Aug 14, 2008 | 5 comments
24. YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 (yuiblog.com)
18 points by IsaacSchlueter on Aug 14, 2008 | 3 comments
25. The Surprising Effect of Distance on Download Speed (httpwatch.com)
18 points by ajbatac on Aug 14, 2008 | 18 comments
26. AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures (techcrunch.com)
17 points by qhoxie on Aug 14, 2008 | 2 comments
27. The Coming Battle Over Web Fonts (mozillazine.org)
15 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2008
28. The Best JavaScript Library (emadibrahim.com)
15 points by eibrahim on Aug 14, 2008 | 2 comments
29. Twitter SMS shutdown explained (thenextweb.org)
15 points by mno on Aug 14, 2008 | 6 comments
30. Microsoft Research develops yet another 3D photo viewer (new video, watch till the end) (istartedsomething.com)
14 points by hhm on Aug 14, 2008

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