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1.Deschooling Society (ournature.org)
50 points by whalliburton on Aug 24, 2008 | 45 comments
2.The Economics of Pay Incentives: a 116% Productivity increase (slate.com)
50 points by smanek on Aug 24, 2008 | 29 comments
3.6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss of Formal Schooling (theonion.com)
46 points by Eliezer on Aug 24, 2008 | 22 comments
4. Russians dent Google’s world domination (timesonline.co.uk)
37 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 24 comments
5.Arrows in Javascript (notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com)
36 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
6.The Worst Colleges in America (radaronline.com)
33 points by ksvs on Aug 24, 2008 | 30 comments
7.Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times (pomonahistorical.org)
31 points by dcminter on Aug 24, 2008 | 10 comments
8.Why Yahoo Japan Is Worth Nearly As Much As Yahoo (techcrunch.com)
30 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 7 comments
9.Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps' (nyud.net)
25 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 6 comments
10.Ask YC: What's your day job?
24 points by 42flicks on Aug 24, 2008 | 86 comments
11.Corn and Software (heroku.com)
23 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 24, 2008 | 8 comments
12.Stopping blog spam or Why I started to block Internet Explorer 6 (homelinux.net)
21 points by raganwald on Aug 24, 2008 | 9 comments
13.10 Free Python Programming Books (coderholic.com)
20 points by Anon84 on Aug 24, 2008 | 6 comments
14.Related pages widget shown on Wikipedia using Directed Edge engine (directededge.com)
18 points by wheels on Aug 24, 2008 | 3 comments
15.Erlang/OTP, Manning beta book (manning.com)
15 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008 | 6 comments
16.Ask YC: Feedback on usabilityfeedback.com (usabilityfeedback.com)
13 points by nonrecursive on Aug 24, 2008 | 44 comments
17.Ask YC: How important is it that your investors are into what you're doing?
13 points by wheels on Aug 24, 2008 | 6 comments
18.Lessons from a Startup Acquisition (gigaom.com)
12 points by profgubler on Aug 24, 2008 | 3 comments
19.Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite (sciencedaily.com)
12 points by gasull on Aug 24, 2008 | 5 comments
20.Companies Try to Extend Researchers' Productivity (wsj.com)
11 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
21.Erlang: Make, Rake and Emake (medevyoujane.com)
11 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008
22.Ask YC: Payment Processing
11 points by scribblewiki on Aug 24, 2008 | 12 comments
23.Anne Trubek on Why We Shouldn’t Still Be Learning Catcher in the Rye (goodmagazine.com)
11 points by robg on Aug 24, 2008 | 19 comments
24.Is F8 being used for phishing? (laserlike.com)
11 points by mspeiser on Aug 24, 2008 | 7 comments
25.Another to do list... (reallygoodtodolist.com)
8 points by LookSeeProof on Aug 24, 2008 | 14 comments
26.WidgetLaboratory Strikes Back At Ning Where It Hurts (techcrunch.com)
8 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 7 comments
27.Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains-- of his technology. (nytimes.com)
6 points by robg on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
28.Startup Fundraising. Never do just enough. (tpgblog.com)
6 points by theproductguy on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
29.Sensual Heat Maps on Flickr (Crowdsourcing what turns us on...) (flickr.com)
6 points by DaniFong on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
30.IE Death March - Time to stop supporting the 7 year old IE6 (iedeathmarch.org)
6 points by danw on Aug 24, 2008

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