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1. Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight (facebook.com)
93 points by edw519 on May 15, 2008 | 42 comments
2. Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (longnow.org)
59 points by ca98am79 on May 15, 2008 | 15 comments
3. Advice to the Bright and Young (daniellefong.com)
56 points by DaniFong on May 15, 2008 | 16 comments
4. Adobe Introduces P2P Flash Player, Kills CDNs (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
53 points by paulsb on May 15, 2008 | 34 comments
5. Teach yourself you to Hack in 6-9 months (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)
45 points by iamelgringo on May 15, 2008 | 38 comments
6. Dear Yahoo! You're Fired! (techcrunch.com)
42 points by statikpulse on May 15, 2008 | 20 comments
7. The Gifted Adult: Self-Knowledge and Self-Esteem (stephanietolan.com)
41 points by girk on May 15, 2008 | 14 comments
8. Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework (code.google.com)
37 points by auston on May 15, 2008 | 17 comments
9. Ask YC: How do you achieve laser focus and concentration?
35 points by markbao on May 15, 2008 | 39 comments
10. Using Git as a versioned data store in Python (newartisans.com)
34 points by baha_man on May 15, 2008 | 6 comments
11. Ask YC: Learning to hack...
29 points by rjett on May 15, 2008 | 51 comments
12. Why Arc is bad for exploratory programming (arcfn.com)
28 points by mqt on May 15, 2008 | 73 comments
13. Ask YC: "Can a 40 year old, married with 3 children, start a start-up?"
27 points by whiten on May 15, 2008 | 72 comments
14. Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum?
27 points by hashtable on May 15, 2008 | 67 comments
15. CBS buying CNET for $1.8 billion (alleyinsider.com)
25 points by daviday on May 15, 2008 | 2 comments
16. The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces (readwriteweb.com)
24 points by breily on May 15, 2008 | 8 comments
17. Ask YC: Getting Involved in Open Source
22 points by bobj on May 15, 2008 | 11 comments
18. Exploiting Network Cards (links.org)
20 points by davidw on May 15, 2008 | 5 comments
19. Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?
19 points by stevenboudreau on May 15, 2008 | 35 comments
20. Build and host a processing.js app in your browser with AppJet (appjet.net)
15 points by aaroniba on May 15, 2008 | 8 comments
21. Sleep less (with no performance hit) (slate.com)
16 points by smanek on May 15, 2008 | 5 comments
22. The Silicon Valley apparatus behind Barack Obama's fundraising (theatlantic.com)
14 points by gruseom on May 15, 2008 | 2 comments
23. Google maps suddenly becomes more than just a map (techcrunch.com)
15 points by Sam_Odio on May 15, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Volunteering opportunities
14 points by sangguine on May 15, 2008 | 14 comments
25. 8 Things You Should Know About Amazon EC2 (leavingcorporate.com)
14 points by garbowza on May 15, 2008 | 5 comments
26. Processing.js Aftermath (ejohn.org)
14 points by bdfh42 on May 15, 2008 | 2 comments
27. NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks (arstechnica.com)
12 points by naish on May 15, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (scribd.com)
12 points by dpapathanasiou on May 15, 2008 | 11 comments
29. The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect (techcrunch.com)
12 points by kyro on May 15, 2008 | 2 comments
30. JIT Compilation in GNU CLISP (groups.google.com)
12 points by kirubakaran on May 15, 2008

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