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Stories from December 5, 2007
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1.xkcd - Python (xkcd.com)
39 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 8 comments
2.Project Euler - Fun Math and Programming Problems (projecteuler.net)
34 points by Bluem00 on Dec 5, 2007 | 10 comments
3.Joel Spolsky's Talk at Yale, Part 3 (joelonsoftware.com)
30 points by jkush on Dec 5, 2007 | 12 comments
4.Simon Willison: Comet works, and it's easier than you think (server push, instead of Ajax polling) (simonwillison.net)
24 points by toffer on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
5.Bruce Schneier Answers Freakonomics' Questions (nytimes.com)
21 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 1 comment
6.Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought [video] (youtube.com)
19 points by dood on Dec 5, 2007 | 7 comments
7.Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success (techcrunch.com)
19 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 5 comments
8.Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out (facebook.com)
18 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007 | 22 comments
9.Bit Twiddling Hacks (stanford.edu)
18 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007 | 3 comments
10.Thinkpad Accelerometer (nikolajbaer.us)
16 points by superjared on Dec 5, 2007
11.Ask YC: what laptop to buy?
15 points by shayan on Dec 5, 2007 | 55 comments
12.New hypothesis for origin of life proposed (physorg.com)
15 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 4 comments
13.Antidiscrimination Law (or, the Dropout Anti-Employment Act) (chicagoboyz.net)
15 points by amichail on Dec 5, 2007 | 1 comment
14.Fortune: RIP Facebook? "...watching it now is like watching an unattended child play with a pack of matches in a wooden house." (cnn.com)
14 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 4 comments
15.A Future So Bright You'll Need to Wear Sunglasses (greenspun.com)
8 points by vikram on Dec 5, 2007
16.Israel's Silicon Valley (washingtonpost.com)
8 points by chwolfe on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
17.An Everywhere Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Function, interesting proof by John McCarthy (stanford.edu)
7 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
18.Microsoft is proud of IE7's first year (and many commenters are outraged) (msdn.com)
7 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 | 3 comments
19.iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 (slashdotdash.net)
6 points by luccastera on Dec 5, 2007
20.Xobni's goal is to "become the Google of personal information" (justinburdett.com)
6 points by kf on Dec 5, 2007 | 4 comments
21."An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory" (using Lisp), by Greg Chaitin (auckland.ac.nz)
6 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007
22.The Seven Point Scale (jgc.org)
5 points by jgrahamc on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
23.When cruft creeps in (37signals.com)
5 points by terpua on Dec 5, 2007
24.Startups Tell VCs: Don't Show Me the Money (Yet) (wired.com)
5 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007
25.A copy of news.yc RSS that works with Google Reader (ath.cx)
5 points by marketer on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
26.PDF Is Now ISO 32000 (adobe.com)
5 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007 | 2 comments
27.Avast from the Pirate Lab (xobni.com)
5 points by solfox on Dec 5, 2007
28.Continental Airlines Turns Mobile Phones Into Boarding Passes for Houston Travelers (cio.com)
4 points by AZA43 on Dec 5, 2007
29.Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface (techcrunch.com)
4 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007
30.Ask YC: What's your startup going to change?
4 points by robmnl on Dec 5, 2007 | 1 comment

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