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541.
This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize (wired.com)
70 points by elq on Feb 28, 2008 | 24 comments
542.
URLs Are Totally Out In Japan (cabel.name)
70 points by nreece on Mar 25, 2008 | 23 comments
543.
So You Hacked Our Site!? (thedailywtf.com)
70 points by muriithi on Feb 29, 2008 | 22 comments
544.
Lockhart's Lament: On Mathematics at School (maa.org)
70 points by hhm on Mar 6, 2008 | 20 comments
545.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com)
70 points by jdale27 on May 16, 2008 | 19 comments
546.
Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
70 points by prakash on Nov 8, 2008 | 17 comments
547.
Map Reduce implemented over HTTP (code.google.com)
70 points by bdotdub on Jul 3, 2008 | 14 comments
548.
Hackerspaces (hackerspaces.org)
69 points by nir on Dec 26, 2008 | 46 comments
549.
280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08) (techcrunch.com)
69 points by sharpshoot on Jun 5, 2008 | 39 comments
550.
PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential people on the web (images.businessweek.com)
69 points by alaskamiller on Sep 30, 2008 | 35 comments
551.
Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon (2dboy.com)
69 points by jim-greer on Dec 22, 2008 | 34 comments
552.
Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users (mobileindustryreview.com)
69 points by gustaf on Nov 14, 2008 | 33 comments
553.
Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless (pragmatictheory.blogspot.com)
69 points by bdr on Aug 15, 2008 | 31 comments
554.
7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off (dmix.ca)
69 points by dmix on Jun 30, 2008 | 29 comments
555.
Myspace's Tom Anderson was an 80s "WarGames" Hacker (techcrunch.com)
69 points by dmix on Aug 30, 2008 | 28 comments
556.
Arc: Where are we going? (arclanguage.org)
69 points by nreece on Oct 25, 2008 | 27 comments
557.
Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare? (newyorker.com)
69 points by danohuiginn on May 5, 2008 | 26 comments
558.
Git: the minimum you need to know (sorta like a cheat or nutshell) (kernel.org)
69 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008 | 26 comments
559.
Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You (businessweek.com)
69 points by nreece on Jul 28, 2008 | 25 comments
560.
Muxtape Relaunching, and Muxtape's story (muxtape.com)
69 points by markbao on Sep 25, 2008 | 24 comments
561.
Arc Ported to JavaScript (halogen.note.amherst.edu)
69 points by rms on Feb 7, 2008 | 23 comments
562.
The Gentleman Grafter (vanityfair.com)
69 points by chaostheory on Nov 27, 2008 | 15 comments
563.
A minimal list of common well-known algorithms, classified by purpose (scriptol.org)
69 points by nickb on Oct 29, 2008 | 10 comments
564.
Pyjamas: build AJAX apps in Python (like Google did for Java) (pyjs.org)
69 points by soundsop on Nov 28, 2008 | 10 comments
565.
An Analysis of the YC "Open Sourced" Documents In Layman's Terms (sachinagarwal.com)
69 points by sachinag on Aug 22, 2008 | 9 comments
566.
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble (nytimes.com)
68 points by terpua on Jul 5, 2008 | 131 comments
567.
Non-Hacker News
68 points by mattmaroon on Sep 23, 2008 | 62 comments
568.
Come stay at the hacker house in San Jose, Free ()
68 points by samwise on Mar 19, 2008 | 55 comments
569.
Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
68 points by mattjaynes on Apr 17, 2008 | 50 comments
570.
Angel investor: Want my money? Here's my checklist (alleyinsider.com)
68 points by pakafka on Oct 6, 2008 | 45 comments