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1.
Hacking Hacker News (joelgrus.com)
503 points by hexis on Feb 17, 2012 | 82 comments
2.
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
465 points by antoncohen on Feb 17, 2012 | 156 comments
3.
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI (37signals.com)
428 points by pors on Feb 17, 2012 | 128 comments
4.
Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax (samsaffron.com)
357 points by sams99 on Feb 17, 2012 | 84 comments
5.
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners (addyosmani.com)
336 points by mfalcon on Feb 17, 2012 | 35 comments
6.
John Nash's Letter to the NSA (agtb.wordpress.com)
296 points by ckuehne on Feb 17, 2012 | 28 comments
7.
Forget Self-Improvement (deliberatism.com)
263 points by karjaluoto on Feb 17, 2012 | 88 comments
8.
I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook (dickbrouwer.com)
237 points by melissamiranda on Feb 17, 2012 | 125 comments
9.
Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks (carscoop.blogspot.com)
186 points by pwg on Feb 17, 2012 | 67 comments
10.
Redesigning the Windows Logo (windowsteamblog.com)
174 points by llambda on Feb 17, 2012 | 141 comments
11.
Designing better user interfaces (slideshare.net)
174 points by Wolfr on Feb 17, 2012 | 37 comments
12.
Sloppy Reporting on the Self Driving Car (informationdiet.com)
158 points by cjoh on Feb 17, 2012 | 55 comments
13.
"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail (bbc.co.uk)
158 points by phpnode on Feb 17, 2012 | 118 comments
14.
They may just be chat bubbles, but they’re our chat bubbles (hipchat.com)
149 points by kacy on Feb 17, 2012 | 41 comments
15.
Microsoft’s Biggest Miss (minimalmac.com)
125 points by cleverjake on Feb 17, 2012 | 118 comments
16.
Polish Prime Minister calls for EU leaders to reject ACTA (googleusercontent.com)
125 points by marcin on Feb 17, 2012 | 14 comments
17.
Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer (nytimes.com)
124 points by kanamekun on Feb 17, 2012 | 53 comments
18.
Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif (mothereffinganimatedgif.com)
113 points by twakefield on Feb 17, 2012 | 27 comments
19.
Visualizing Process Execution (dtrace.org)
112 points by lnmx on Feb 17, 2012 | 11 comments
20.
Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads (eff.org)
102 points by achille on Feb 17, 2012 | 50 comments
21.
Humble Bundle Mojam live stream - notch & co. coding for charity (humblebundle.com)
99 points by mwilcox on Feb 17, 2012 | 20 comments
22.
Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing environment for the JVM (github.com/liebke)
88 points by lars512 on Feb 17, 2012 | 11 comments
23.
AI Programmer (Clojure) (functionaljobs.com)
80 points by htimo on Feb 17, 2012 | 5 comments
24.
How to write good requirements (atomicobject.com)
81 points by micahalles on Feb 17, 2012 | 3 comments
25.
Why To-Do Lists Don’t Work and Done Lists Do (lifehack.org)
76 points by smalter on Feb 17, 2012 | 34 comments
26.
Newer faster version of WebGL Quake 3 demo : JQuery is gone, updated glMatrix (plus.google.com)
73 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2012 | 11 comments
27.
The man who hears colour (bbc.co.uk)
71 points by reacocard on Feb 17, 2012 | 27 comments
28.
Preprocessor magic: Default Arguments in C (realintelligence.net)
67 points by llambda on Feb 17, 2012 | 36 comments
29.
Your doctor doesn't want you to see this -- diagnosis using AI (symcat.com)
72 points by cmonsen on Feb 17, 2012 | 87 comments
30.
Thoughts on R7RS (benjisimon.blogspot.com)
64 points by gnosis on Feb 17, 2012 | 9 comments

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