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1.		Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog) (37signals.com)
		84 points by bdotdub on July 9, 2008 \| 34 comments
2.		Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com (sshkeygen.com)
		79 points by bkrausz on July 9, 2008 \| 32 comments
3.		Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends (theonion.com)
		63 points by kf on July 9, 2008 \| 50 comments
4.		New malloc in OpenBSD helps spot 33 year old bug in yacc (undeadly.org)
		59 points by nickb on July 9, 2008 \| 5 comments
5.		18 Project Ideas from Seth Godin (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		52 points by bprater on July 9, 2008 \| 20 comments
6.		Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks (freelanceswitch.com)
		51 points by markbao on July 9, 2008 \| 22 comments
7.		Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature (lkozma.net)
		46 points by lkozma on July 9, 2008 \| 9 comments
8.		Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions (cnn.com)
		46 points by emmett on July 9, 2008 \| 24 comments
9.		They Are Scribd (latimes.com)
		35 points by ed on July 9, 2008 \| 12 comments
10.		Free & Proprietary (mattmaroon.com)
		36 points by sant0sk1 on July 9, 2008 \| 92 comments
11.		The Man Who Lost $6 Billion (cnn.com)
		35 points by byrneseyeview on July 9, 2008 \| 12 comments
12.		Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day (scribd.com)
		32 points by pbnaidu on July 9, 2008 \| 6 comments
13.		Mine the long tail: Google keyword tool now has # of searches/month data (adwords.google.com)
		31 points by utnick on July 9, 2008 \| 10 comments
14.		Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick That Works (yahoo.com)
		30 points by zurla on July 9, 2008 \| 29 comments
15.		AI beats human poker champions (eetimes.com)
		28 points by nickb on July 9, 2008 \| 46 comments
16.		My interview with murderer Hans Reiser (salon.com)
		28 points by bgutierrez on July 9, 2008 \| 41 comments
		sspencer on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Free & Proprietary Stallman's inability to see how damaging his rhetoric is to his cause is rapidly overshadowing any of his achievements. I went to HOPE 2006 in NYC a few years ago, and ran into him while heading to a lecture about Asterix PBX use. As a huge admirer of GNU tools and the GNU/Linux operating system in particular, it was thrilling to finally get to meet one my heroes. For about a few seconds. I shook his hand and somewhat shyly asked him to sign one of the few paper-based items I had in my bag, a copy of (surprise surprise!) PG's "ANSI Common Lisp". He refused outright, claiming it was not "free" in its licensing and printing. I shit you not. The man is that much of an asshole. I just goggled at him for a moment, and wandered away in a daze. Don't get me wrong, I love his ideas. Information wants to be free. But to be so mindlessly pedantic about little things like what he is signing detracts from his cause.
18.		Ocropus - Google Code (code.google.com)
		27 points by sarosh on July 9, 2008 \| 5 comments
		BrandonM on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Python best practices I do. I think it looks a lot better and more clear. It certainly looks a lot like what I would write down on paper, and that is one of the inherent qualities of Python in general.
		nazgulnarsil on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Frien... it's depressing that the onion correlates with reality to a higher degree than mainstream media.
21.		For future hackers (nsa.gov)
		25 points by nose on July 9, 2008 \| 11 comments
22.		Ask NYYC: Help us make a gathering plan.
		24 points by j2d2 on July 9, 2008 \| 48 comments
		pg on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City I find it difficult to suggest that it is all about ANY one thing. From the essay: "There are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer."
24.		Oily Speculations (newyorker.com)
		22 points by culley on July 9, 2008 \| 3 comments
		hugh on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Do you suffer from Programmer's Apathy? Ummm, what the hell was that? Sorry, usually I feel the need to make more intelligent comments than that, but in this case I'm just gonna have to go with "what the hell was that?"
		jamess on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com Oh dear god. I can only hope this is an attempt to crack idiots servers, rather than a serious service. I love the "it's your responsibility to secure your key in transit" disclaimer.
27.		The Black Swan and You (stakeventures.com)
		23 points by pelle on July 9, 2008 \| 5 comments
28.		Fake Steve Jobs, R.I.P.* (alleyinsider.com)
		23 points by jmorin007 on July 9, 2008 \| 3 comments
29.		How removing shell calls sped up GitHub (github.com/blog)
		21 points by pjhyett on July 9, 2008 \| 13 comments
		edw519 on July 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| on: Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Frien... Make something dogs want.
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