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1.		I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored (nadim.cc)
		701 points by joshfraser on Feb 9, 2013 \| 341 comments
2.		I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
		474 points by blasten on Feb 9, 2013 \| 270 comments
3.		Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This
		329 points by Jaigus on Feb 9, 2013 \| 138 comments
4.		CSS 3D Clouds (clicktorelease.com)
		294 points by pawannitj on Feb 9, 2013 \| 44 comments
5.		Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator’s Secret Financial And Operational Weapon (techcrunch.com)
		252 points by leahculver on Feb 9, 2013 \| 60 comments
6.		Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it (beaglenetworks.net)
		216 points by sebkomianos on Feb 9, 2013 \| 21 comments
7.		Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars (universetoday.com)
		203 points by anigbrowl on Feb 9, 2013 \| 147 comments
8.		I’m Sick of Tiny, Tiny Type (jxnblk.tumblr.com)
		201 points by Jonhoo on Feb 9, 2013 \| 142 comments
9.		Pixel Art Tutorial (makegames.tumblr.com)
		193 points by joshuacc on Feb 9, 2013 \| 38 comments
10.		How to Learn JavaScript Properly (javascriptissexy.com)
		193 points by Vuiisiq on Feb 9, 2013 \| 50 comments
11.		A ‘frighteningly ambitious’ way to improve email (thenextweb.com)
		143 points by zeedotme on Feb 9, 2013 \| 86 comments
12.		CISPA is back (cispaisback.com)
		138 points by sturdysquirrel on Feb 9, 2013 \| 28 comments
13.		MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems labs rewritten in Go (csail.mit.edu)
		132 points by myko on Feb 9, 2013 \| 32 comments
14.		Show HN: An NES emulator written in Rust (github.com/pcwalton)
		125 points by pcwalton on Feb 9, 2013 \| 27 comments
15.		Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released (hansenpartnership.com)
		125 points by onosendai on Feb 9, 2013 \| 31 comments
16.		Security Engineering – The Book (cam.ac.uk)
		120 points by sweis on Feb 9, 2013 \| 12 comments
17.		JSDB.io - A Database of JavaScript Libraries (jsdb.io)
		123 points by ksokhan on Feb 9, 2013 \| 60 comments
18.		I Don't Do That Job Anymore (daniellemorrill.com)
		112 points by dmor on Feb 9, 2013 \| 33 comments
19.		DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border (wired.com)
		107 points by eplanit on Feb 9, 2013 \| 135 comments
20.		Samsung laptop bug is not Linux specific (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		106 points by Danieru on Feb 9, 2013 \| 37 comments
21.		The Elsevier boycott one year on (gowers.wordpress.com)
		105 points by tokenadult on Feb 9, 2013 \| 60 comments
22.		IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare (forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin)
		96 points by antalkerekes on Feb 9, 2013 \| 69 comments
23.		How to prevent a meritocracy entrenching itself (economist.com)
		94 points by ekpyrotic on Feb 9, 2013 \| 101 comments
24.		Amazon has patented the milkman, etc. (plus.google.com)
		94 points by DanielHimmelein on Feb 9, 2013 \| 58 comments
25.		Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway (nytimes.com)
		94 points by jfb on Feb 9, 2013 \| 102 comments
26.		User revolt over Java bloatware (techeye.net)
		91 points by maudlinmau5 on Feb 9, 2013 \| 54 comments
27.		Ask HN: First time in SF today and tomorrow – can I visit your startup?
		89 points by davewasmer on Feb 9, 2013 \| 25 comments
28.		How to achieve 4 flops per cycle? (stackoverflow.com)
		89 points by glazskunrukitis on Feb 9, 2013 \| 14 comments
29.		2013 will see a shift from social networks back to blogs (dendory.net)
		82 points by dendory on Feb 9, 2013 \| 35 comments
30.		A list of donations that Bill Gates has made (youhavetocit.com)
		84 points by stevenj on Feb 9, 2013 \| 62 comments
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