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1.		Reverse image search engine (tineye.com)
		108 points by wave on March 27, 2009 \| 46 comments
2.		Leaving Amazon: What I learned over the last four years (iseff.com)
		97 points by iseff on March 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
3.		Jeff Bezos Works In Kentucky Distribution Center For A Week (businessinsider.com)
		81 points by brandonkm on March 27, 2009 \| 21 comments
4.		A time travel strategy game (achrongame.com)
		79 points by wavesplash on March 27, 2009 \| 33 comments
5.		My Love, Hate, Love Again, Affair with Paul Graham (gicleelife.com)
		71 points by jkuria on March 27, 2009 \| 61 comments
6.		Joel on Solid State Disks (joelonsoftware.com)
		69 points by dmytton on March 27, 2009 \| 79 comments
7.		The Quiet Coup: IMF advice on the US economy (theatlantic.com)
		59 points by moonpolysoft on March 27, 2009 \| 35 comments
8.		Learn you a Haskell for great good (learnyouahaskell.com)
		61 points by christofd on March 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
		sho on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: My Love, Hate, Love Again, Affair with Paul Graham Jesus christ. I guess this is the downside of being famous - random crazy people start fixating upon you as their leader/friend/saviour/nemesis/soulmate and reading all sorts of crap into every aspect of their life, when all you were trying to do was write a decent essay. What do you even say to people like this. Dude .. I don't know what you are looking for, but it is almost certain you will not find it in PG. This kind of thing scares me, it really does. Intelligent person .. good writing, obviously can express himself well .. but this search, this willingness to devote himself to something, someone, anything .. this is a serious bug in man's programming. I don't know the answer.
10.		Don't Like It? Code it Yourself (codinghorror.com)
		53 points by twampss on March 27, 2009 \| 69 comments
11.		Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch (readwriteweb.com)
		52 points by Anon84 on March 27, 2009 \| 34 comments
		wheels on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: "No toilet, no bride" DNS seems to be acting up at the moment. For some reason news.ycombinator.com is resolving to Reddit.
13.		Obsession Times Voice: How to do online writing right. (daringfireball.net)
		39 points by jballanc on March 27, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		Kill -0 (finalcog.com)
		42 points by anotherpaulg on March 27, 2009 \| 7 comments
		mechanical_fish on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre Have I entered some sort of time warp? I was introduced to this game at the gaming club at Cornell. In 1997. When reading this article I had to keep looking up at the dateline to make sure I hadn't accidentally slipped back into graduate school. Talk about existential terror. The moral of this story is threefold. First: I was a much bigger game geek than I ever thought I was. Second: Your business can take a really long time to reach its full potential. Third: Just because something is old news to you doesn't mean that there aren't lots of people encountering it for the first time.
		motoko on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: When every student has a laptop, why run computer ... Because lab computers can be configured with all the necessary software and support students need to do work in an environment conducive to doing work. It's the software, support, licensing, environment, configuration, maintenance, convenience, peripherals, bandwidth, security, environment, and unity of purpose that's most valuable... not the physical computer itself. When every student has paper, why print books?
17.		Nvidia Tesla Supercomputer (960 cores) (nvidia.co.uk)
		38 points by wesleyd on March 27, 2009 \| 27 comments
18.		Startup Advice: I'm a Geek, How do I Pick a Business Partner I Can Trust? (fairsoftware.net)
		40 points by alain94040 on March 27, 2009 \| 17 comments
		palish on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Reverse image search engine Finally, a practical way to find out the names of porn actresses.
		kirubakaran on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: My Love, Hate, Love Again, Affair with Paul Graham "Jesus Christ" ... "random crazy people start fixating upon you as their leader/friend/saviour/nemesis/soulmate and reading all sorts of crap into every aspect of their life" You may be on to something bigger than what you meant.
21.		17 Windows browsers on your Mac. Sort of. (litmusapp.com)
		33 points by jawngee on March 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
22.		The Sorry State of Music Startups (techcrunch.com)
		31 points by dcurtis on March 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
23.		American Maglev (academicvc.com)
		31 points by coglethorpe on March 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
24.		Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply (chronicle.com)
		30 points by ksvs on March 27, 2009 \| 21 comments
25.		How to measure Python Memory Usage (pkgcore.org)
		31 points by flavio87 on March 27, 2009
26.		Harvard and Heroin (salon.com)
		30 points by danhak on March 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
27.		David Pogue's secret weapon: Patience (thestandard.com)
		30 points by ilamont on March 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		"No toilet, no bride" (timesonline.co.uk)
		28 points by crocus on March 27, 2009 \| 12 comments
		JacobAldridge on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Home sales fell 41% year over year in February, bu... October news: "Pumpkin Sales up 1000%" November news: "Pumpkin Sales plummet" Month on month tells us nothing (in this extreme example). Year-on-year (ie, Oct 09 v Oct 08) give us an indication of strength or otherwise in a market, without seasonable variations. Having worked with 120+ Real estate agencies (in Australia - US cycle will differ) I can tell you that every year Jan will be 'down' from Dec, Feb will be up, September will always show an increase over August, and Dec will usually be bigger than Nov. Reporting just those figures would look like the 'housing market' was an unpredictable roller coaster - up one month, down the next, when will it end, think of the children!? Sure, in many instances (your business cashflow, for instance) both data points are useful. But year-on-year removes more variables and is therefore more important.
		sanj on March 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre If you're playing this game without the "Penny Rule", you're missing out. SoC suffers from a bit of a compound interest effect: a few bad (non-producing) rolls at the beginning can screw you for the entire game. To make up for this: Anytime there is a roll on which a given player doesn't get any resources (and not because of the thief), they are given a penny. During trading, a player can buy a resource from the bank using pennies for the cost of number of victory points showing. This dramatically reduces run-away-winner syndrome.
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