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1.
Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building (embeddedart.com)
197 points by spudlyo on Feb 18, 2010 | 207 comments
2.
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures hides lawsuits via 1000+ shell companies (techdirt.com)
179 points by mbrubeck on Feb 18, 2010 | 47 comments
3.
Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. (shadyurl.com)
156 points by _pius on Feb 18, 2010 | 21 comments
4.
Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3 (lwn.net)
140 points by functional-tree on Feb 18, 2010 | 28 comments
5.
Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically (rwmj.wordpress.com)
123 points by fogus on Feb 18, 2010 | 61 comments
6.
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs (dangrover.com)
124 points by dangrover on Feb 18, 2010 | 54 comments
7.
CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards (techcrunch.com)
103 points by anson on Feb 18, 2010 | 46 comments
8.
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation (hbs.edu)
102 points by vijaydev on Feb 18, 2010 | 18 comments
9.
Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge (thetimezoneconverter.com)
96 points by jonathanberger on Feb 18, 2010 | 86 comments
10.
TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript (and HTML5 Canvas) (bramstein.com)
86 points by bramstein on Feb 18, 2010 | 56 comments
11.
Failin.gs (failin.gs)
74 points by ams1 on Feb 18, 2010 | 46 comments
12.
The 7 words that could improve Copyright (arstechnica.com)
63 points by CoryOndrejka on Feb 18, 2010 | 18 comments
13.
DRM from hell. (arstechnica.com)
63 points by GrandMasterBirt on Feb 18, 2010 | 48 comments
14.
Three Types of Passion (figuringshitout.com)
61 points by danspodcast on Feb 18, 2010 | 13 comments
15.
The story of "Bean," a free word processor for Mac OS X (bean-osx.com)
61 points by jasongullickson on Feb 18, 2010 | 13 comments
16.
Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish (nytimes.com)
58 points by mtalantikite on Feb 18, 2010 | 21 comments
17.
Subversion is now Apache Subversion (wandisco.com)
59 points by jameseh on Feb 18, 2010 | 5 comments
18.
Chumby's Chinese Factories (read previous posts too) (bunniestudios.com)
57 points by joshwa on Feb 18, 2010 | 25 comments
19.
RIM switching to open source WebKit (h-online.com)
57 points by pmjordan on Feb 18, 2010 | 31 comments
20.
Facebook Overtakes Yahoo: Now the Second Most Visited Site in U.S. (mashable.com)
51 points by Concours on Feb 18, 2010 | 31 comments
21.
On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design (buildingreputation.com)
51 points by ALee on Feb 18, 2010 | 4 comments
22.
Wordpress Hosted Blogs are Down (centernetworks.com)
45 points by jfornear on Feb 18, 2010 | 32 comments
23.
Poor Teen Sleeping Due To Lack Of Blue Light? (eurekalert.org)
44 points by cwan on Feb 18, 2010 | 9 comments
24.
Gigamonkeys Quarterly (gigamonkeys.com)
40 points by zachbeane on Feb 18, 2010 | 7 comments
25.
Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi leechers at TechEd (techedbackstage.net)
40 points by shrikant on Feb 18, 2010 | 20 comments
26.
Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors (33bits.org)
39 points by randomwalker on Feb 18, 2010 | 11 comments
27.
Vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope (synthgear.com)
37 points by soundsop on Feb 18, 2010 | 8 comments
28.
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle (rollingstone.com)
36 points by chaostheory on Feb 18, 2010 | 47 comments
29.
Git 1.7.0 release notes (kernel.org)
36 points by labria on Feb 18, 2010 | 15 comments
30.
Writing a Lisp Interpreter in Go (bobappleyard.wordpress.com)
34 points by fogus on Feb 18, 2010 | 10 comments

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