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1. Perfectstorm: RTS written in Common Lisp using OpenGL (erleuchtet.org)
53 points by chaostheory on April 2, 2008 | 14 comments
2. Scary thought: Maybe the Rust Belt is the whole U.S. now? (law.harvard.edu)
38 points by tc on April 2, 2008 | 14 comments
3. Rails is moving from SVN to Git (rubyonrails.com)
36 points by brett on April 2, 2008 | 3 comments
4. Applying to YC this cycle? Please don't wait till the last minute.
25 points by pg on April 2, 2008 | 49 comments
5. Bootstrapped startup problem: credit card company abuse
32 points by DocSavage on April 2, 2008 | 25 comments
6. Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? (computerworld.com)
27 points by aaco on April 2, 2008 | 16 comments
7. A taste of what's coming in Rails 2.1 (rubyonrails.com)
24 points by sant0sk1 on April 2, 2008 | 1 comment
8. CollegeHumor Guys' Secret Success: T-Shirts (alleyinsider.com)
21 points by parker on April 2, 2008 | 9 comments
9. PriorSmart, easy patent search for entrepreneurs (priorsmart.com)
21 points by nmeyer on April 2, 2008 | 6 comments
10. Google Tech Talk: The Secret History of Silicon Valley (video.google.com)
21 points by staunch on April 2, 2008 | 1 comment
11. Songkick wants to be the home of live music online (guardian.co.uk)
20 points by amirnathoo on April 2, 2008
12. John Doerr on traits of startup mercenaries vs missionaries (Stanford Video) (stanford.edu)
20 points by rantfoil on April 2, 2008 | 8 comments
13. Announcing The TechCrunch50 Conference: September 8-10, San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
18 points by raghus on April 2, 2008 | 12 comments
14. Have laptops killed the desktop? (Dell closing factory in Austin) (dallasnews.com)
17 points by erickhill on April 2, 2008 | 38 comments
15. The clock is ticking: Today is the last day to apply to YC
17 points by robertk on April 2, 2008 | 7 comments
16. Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3 (rochester.edu)
15 points by edw519 on April 2, 2008 | 14 comments
17. Why aren’t you using ionice yet? (friedcpu.wordpress.com)
16 points by chaostheory on April 2, 2008 | 3 comments
18. Designed for Microsoft Windows (paulgraham.com)
16 points by pius on April 2, 2008 | 14 comments
19. Firefox 3 beta 5 is out (mozilla.com)
15 points by maxwell on April 2, 2008 | 7 comments
20. Design Patterns of 1972 (plover.com)
15 points by sah on April 2, 2008 | 2 comments
21. Brijit - The world in 100 words (brijit.com)
15 points by pius on April 2, 2008 | 4 comments
22. Amazon's new text message shopping--from a brick and mortar, conveniently comparison shop by UPC (wired.com)
15 points by ericb on April 2, 2008 | 5 comments
23. 1/3 Rule (avc.blogs.com)
14 points by Bluem00 on April 2, 2008 | 5 comments
24. Geek out old school: Virtual slide rules (antiquark.com)
12 points by noonespecial on April 2, 2008 | 2 comments
25. What Question Does Your Product Answer? (howtosplitanatom.com)
12 points by socalsamba on April 2, 2008 | 3 comments
26. The Maasai warriors' guide to England (telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by dood on April 2, 2008 | 3 comments
27. Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill (wired.com)
11 points by kf on April 2, 2008 | 4 comments
28. My Startup: tracking real world trends - thoughts? suggestions? (edopter.com)
10 points by matthewer on April 2, 2008 | 19 comments
29. Startuprant.com rants on about Scribd.com (startuprant.com)
10 points by MarkyMark on April 2, 2008 | 19 comments
30. Embedded + CPU != x86 (geekhold.com)
10 points by emfle on April 2, 2008 | 4 comments

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