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1. I'm Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn't Include Any Mention of SEO (seomoz.org)
59 points by utnick on April 1, 2008 | 34 comments
2. 40 percent of college students say their next computer purchase will be a Mac (appleinsider.com)
57 points by pg on April 1, 2008 | 70 comments
3. Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? (viemu.com)
56 points by alex_c on April 1, 2008 | 52 comments
4. Growing a Language by Guy Steele (catonmat.net)
40 points by sicsh on April 1, 2008 | 7 comments
5. COBOL ON COGS :-) (coboloncogs.org)
40 points by tandaraho on April 1, 2008 | 11 comments
6. You only get one lifetime to do what you want to do. Touching photo essay. (guardian.co.uk)
36 points by FleursDuMal on April 1, 2008 | 9 comments
7. A cellphone with no flips, no folds - just a very low price (iht.com)
35 points by prakash on April 1, 2008 | 19 comments
8. A Plan for Scams: A proposal to put 419 scammers out of business for good (dfranke.us)
34 points by dfranke on April 1, 2008 | 9 comments
9. New Lisp and Functional Programming Comic Novella
30 points by drcode on April 1, 2008 | 7 comments
10. Hacker News Firefox Extension
32 points by marrone on April 1, 2008 | 10 comments
11. Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. (dashes.com)
32 points by ivankirigin on April 1, 2008 | 7 comments
12. 37Signals Amazon S3 Stats and Costs (37signals.com)
30 points by bmaier on April 1, 2008
13. Bug 439858: swf mozilla plugin - no youtube for Linus Torvalds' wife (redhat.com)
28 points by nickb on April 1, 2008 | 9 comments
14. Ask YC: What are you working on right now?
27 points by robmnl on April 1, 2008 | 158 comments
15. Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java (damienkatz.net)
26 points by iamelgringo on April 1, 2008 | 9 comments
16. Did you know that each integer in a PHP array takes 68 bytes of storage? (pankaj-k.net)
16 points by nickb on April 1, 2008 | 4 comments
17. Fortress is released (sun.com)
16 points by dfranke on April 1, 2008 | 14 comments
18. How to get profiled on TechCrunch (communityguy.com)
14 points by theoneill on April 1, 2008 | 3 comments
19. Scribd holds anniversary at investor's $22 million mansion (valleywag.com)
14 points by snowmaker on April 1, 2008 | 25 comments
20. Xobni announces support for Pine (xobni.com)
16 points by solfox on April 1, 2008 | 11 comments
21. Self-Discipline: Hard Work (stevepavlina.com)
12 points by getp on April 1, 2008 | 6 comments
22. Perception, creativity and paint color (37signals.com)
11 points by naish on April 1, 2008 | 1 comment
23. Why you don’t need a Venture Capitalist (indiestartups.com)
11 points by idigit on April 1, 2008 | 3 comments
24. Google Docs now runs offline with Gears (ajaxian.com)
10 points by bdfh42 on April 1, 2008 | 2 comments
25. The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought (nytimes.com)
9 points by robg on April 1, 2008 | 4 comments
26. Ask YC: I'm about to give up on computing altogether and pursue a career as a pharmacist. Mistake?
10 points by amichail on April 1, 2008 | 30 comments
27. Strange imagery found in Java String.class binary (catchpole.net)
10 points by michaelneale on April 1, 2008 | 4 comments
28. /dev/afj08 - Store your April Fools URLs here
9 points by brk on April 1, 2008 | 6 comments
29. Ask YC: Who are you using for DNS?
9 points by rob on April 1, 2008 | 18 comments
30. Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
9 points by moog on April 1, 2008 | 26 comments

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