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Top of Month - May 2008
  1. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive
    (8 May 2008 | 198 points | Comments)

  2. Lies We Tell Kids
    (13 May 2008 | 188 points | Comments)

  3. Cities and Ambition
    (27 May 2008 | 156 points | Comments)

  4. PG: Disconnecting Distraction
    (17 May 2008 | 153 points | Comments)

  5. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
    (20 May 2008 | 137 points | Comments)

  6. Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy
    (9 May 2008 | 136 points | Comments)

  7. My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?
    (15 May 2008 | 134 points | Comments)

  8. Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
    (1 May 2008 | 133 points | Comments)

  9. Architecture astronauts take over
    (1 May 2008 | 131 points | Comments)

  10. Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed.
    (7 May 2008 | 129 points | Comments)

  11. When did we forget our dreams?
    (22 May 2008 | 123 points | Comments)

  12. Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck
    (29 May 2008 | 122 points | Comments)

  13. Processing ported to JavaScript
    (9 May 2008 | 112 points | Comments)

  14. Google releases free, detailed, HTML/CSS/Javascript encyclopedia by Mark Pilgrim
    (14 May 2008 | 111 points | Comments)

  15. The Coolest Business Plan Ever
    (6 May 2008 | 104 points | Comments)

  16. Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
    (12 May 2008 | 103 points | Comments)

  17. Michael Arrington: “I’m a Click-Whoring Jackass”
    (29 May 2008 | 103 points | Comments)