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1.
Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes (washingtonpost.com)
349 points by llambda on Feb 19, 2012 | 254 comments
2.
How Forbes Stole a New York Times Article and Got All The Traffic (nickoneill.com)
247 points by cnolden on Feb 19, 2012 | 60 comments
3.
How key-based cache expiration works (37signals.com)
212 points by Thibaut on Feb 19, 2012 | 35 comments
4.
Hackathons are nonsense (scripting.com)
185 points by PixelRobot on Feb 19, 2012 | 71 comments
5.
The Great Web Framework Shootout – On GitHub (github.com/seedifferently)
167 points by stesch on Feb 19, 2012 | 72 comments
6.
How to Make and Use a Transparency Grenade (transparencygrenade.com)
157 points by tokenadult on Feb 19, 2012 | 38 comments
7.
Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide (dickgrune.com)
158 points by llambda on Feb 19, 2012 | 20 comments
8.
Berkeley Computer Vision Class (vision-class.org)
136 points by myffical on Feb 19, 2012 | 16 comments
9.
The town is no longer friendly for business (swombat.com)
135 points by mikeleeorg on Feb 19, 2012 | 108 comments
10.
Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved (physorg.com)
132 points by acangiano on Feb 19, 2012 | 15 comments
11.
Oracle v. Google: "the value of this case keeps getting smaller and smaller" (groklaw.net)
133 points by grellas on Feb 19, 2012 | 23 comments
12.
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever (wired.com)
131 points by pier0 on Feb 19, 2012 | 48 comments
13.
Spicing unix shell scripts (cyberciti.biz)
123 points by pareshverma91 on Feb 19, 2012 | 14 comments
14.
Hacker News clone for Python (pythonmeme.com)
108 points by arowser on Feb 19, 2012 | 30 comments
15.
Objective-C literals for NSDictionary, NSArray, and NSNumber (cocoaheads.tumblr.com)
102 points by julien_p on Feb 19, 2012 | 57 comments
16.
How casinos distract (ketyov.com)
100 points by tortilla on Feb 19, 2012 | 36 comments
17.
Show HN: A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C) (github.com/paulasmuth)
97 points by paulasmuth on Feb 19, 2012 | 11 comments
18.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission (bemmu.posterous.com)
94 points by bemmu on Feb 19, 2012 | 51 comments
19.
Show HN: StyleBootstrap, create unique Bootstrap design live (stylebootstrap.info)
88 points by creatom on Feb 19, 2012 | 7 comments
20.
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom (nytimes.com)
81 points by dazbradbury on Feb 19, 2012 | 14 comments
21.
High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer (onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
82 points by Panos on Feb 19, 2012 | 62 comments
22.
You Are Not Ruthless Enough (playswithfire.com)
79 points by wallflower on Feb 19, 2012 | 19 comments
23.
Facebook is losing E-Commerce (nikcub.appspot.com)
78 points by nikcub on Feb 19, 2012 | 32 comments
24.
Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh (devsigh.com)
73 points by chargrilled on Feb 19, 2012 | 33 comments
25.
Save the Libraries. Cut University Funding Instead. (jbgst.tumblr.com)
70 points by johnnybgoode on Feb 19, 2012 | 61 comments
26.
My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other mobile CPU mysteries (icrontic.com)
64 points by primesuspect on Feb 19, 2012 | 12 comments
27.
Luerl - Lua on the Erlang VM (erlang.org)
61 points by EvanMiller on Feb 19, 2012 | 8 comments
28.
Exploit to detect which Social Networks you are logged into (tomanthony.co.uk)
57 points by TomAnthony on Feb 19, 2012 | 11 comments
29.
The minimal code required in a HTML5 page (chetankjain.net)
57 points by cjain on Feb 19, 2012 | 17 comments
30.
WordPress Functions.php Snippets (wpfunction.me)
53 points by benackles on Feb 19, 2012 | 5 comments

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