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1. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece (msn.com)
110 points by nickb on Aug 23, 2008 | 18 comments
2. John Resig on TraceMonkey (ejohn.org)
66 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 23, 2008 | 20 comments
3. "Design Patterns" Aren't (plover.com)
35 points by initself on Aug 23, 2008 | 18 comments
4. Guy Kawasaki: Five most important lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur. (sun.com)
28 points by edw519 on Aug 23, 2008 | 19 comments
5. Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it (highscalability.com)
26 points by pbnaidu on Aug 23, 2008 | 4 comments
6. Gnu screen with split screen (nti.st)
25 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 10 comments
7. How many of lines of code for infix-to-prefix? (emmettshear.com)
23 points by emmett on Aug 23, 2008 | 7 comments
8. Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources (nmsu.edu)
23 points by ulvund on Aug 23, 2008 | 1 comment
9. In Defense of C (girtby.net)
22 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 19 comments
10. Elastic Hadoop Clusters with Amazon's Elastic Block Store (lexemetech.com)
21 points by slackerIII on Aug 23, 2008 | 2 comments
11. Django 1.0 Documentation (djangoproject.com)
19 points by iamelgringo on Aug 23, 2008 | 22 comments
12. Why it’s hard to make machines think original thoughts (thinkartificial.org)
14 points by hhm on Aug 23, 2008 | 11 comments
13. Damien Conway interview: Perl 6, Java, his PhD (oreilly.com)
14 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 11 comments
14. New google APIs: geolocation, IP address geolocate (webmonkey.com)
12 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 2 comments
15. Why the Megapixel Race Needs to End (wired.com)
11 points by soundsop on Aug 23, 2008 | 11 comments
16. In-Game Gold Farming a $500M Industry (bbc.co.uk)
10 points by kf on Aug 23, 2008 | 8 comments
17. New from MIT press: "Design Concepts in Programming Languages" (mitpress.mit.edu)
10 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008
18. Tech Pros: The Next Dinosaurs? (wsj.com)
9 points by rams on Aug 23, 2008 | 4 comments
19. JavaFX preview SDK: he likes it (techper.net)
9 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008
20. YAMT: yet anoth monad tutorial (folding-maps.org)
9 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 3 comments
21. Mystery of Black Holes "Solved" (bbc.co.uk)
9 points by ComputerGuru on Aug 23, 2008 | 3 comments
22. AppEng 1.1.2: (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
9 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 4 comments
23. Joel re: exceptions. Nyet (littletutorials.com)
9 points by gtani on Aug 23, 2008 | 2 comments
24. Practical Guide to GPL Compliance (softwarefreedom.org)
8 points by astrec on Aug 23, 2008 | 4 comments
25. Do cell phone users without landlines distort political poll results? (pollster.com)
8 points by silentbicycle on Aug 23, 2008 | 2 comments
26. TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed (mozillazine.org)
8 points by nickb on Aug 23, 2008 | 1 comment
27. Caution: Driver May Be Surfing the Web (nytimes.com)
7 points by bootload on Aug 23, 2008 | 6 comments
28. What do ubiquitous laptops do to your business model? (nytimes.com)
7 points by olefoo on Aug 23, 2008
29. How do the YC Series AA documents differ from typical Series A documents? (startupcompanylawyer.com)
6 points by yokumtaku on Aug 23, 2008
30. What Startups Can Learn From Billy “Moneyball” Beane (gigaom.com)
6 points by tortilla on Aug 23, 2008 | 3 comments

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