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1.		Hosni Mubarak finally steps down (aljazeera.net)
		332 points by dzlobin on Feb 11, 2011 \| 127 comments
2.		Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0 (jacquesmattheij.com)
		278 points by plinkplonk on Feb 11, 2011 \| 155 comments
3.		1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate) (googleusercontent.com)
		252 points by benwerd on Feb 11, 2011 \| 165 comments
4.		Toyota, The Media Owe You an Apology (businessweek.com)
		184 points by AndrewWarner on Feb 11, 2011 \| 77 comments
5.		Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time? (onstartups.com)
		167 points by SandB0x on Feb 11, 2011 \| 116 comments
6.		Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team (techcrunch.com)
		167 points by andre3k1 on Feb 11, 2011 \| 175 comments
7.		TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices (techcrunch.com)
		172 points by jkincaid on Feb 11, 2011 \| 79 comments
8.		Khan Academy and BitTorrent Partner to Distribute Educational Videos (hackeducation.com)
		162 points by audreyw on Feb 11, 2011 \| 21 comments
9.		GroupOn, LivingSocial engaging in questionable practices (techcrunch.com)
		157 points by benwerd on Feb 11, 2011 \| 58 comments
10.		Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act (reddit.com)
		154 points by mixmax on Feb 11, 2011 \| 17 comments
11.		Pervasive myths about older software developers (lessonsoffailure.com)
		149 points by cpr on Feb 11, 2011 \| 68 comments
12.		BBC To Delete 172 Websites Due to Budget Cuts, Geek Saves Them for $3.99 (readwriteweb.com)
		149 points by rmah on Feb 11, 2011 \| 67 comments
13.		Nokia’s Suicide Note (ibiblio.org)
		131 points by cwb on Feb 11, 2011 \| 45 comments
14.		How Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous (arstechnica.com)
		126 points by ibejoeb on Feb 11, 2011 \| 85 comments
15.		Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points (serverfault.com)
		112 points by sagarun on Feb 11, 2011 \| 31 comments
16.		Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development (engadget.com)
		111 points by tomh- on Feb 11, 2011 \| 64 comments
17.		Ask HN: Hackers falling in love
		106 points by rmundo on Feb 11, 2011 \| 68 comments
18.		Pandora Files To Go Public (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by pitdesi on Feb 11, 2011 \| 39 comments
19.		Visualizing The New Arab Mind (kovasboguta.com)
		99 points by programnature on Feb 11, 2011 \| 16 comments
20.		Paul Irish on HTML5 Boilerplate (ontwik.com)
		87 points by ahmicro on Feb 11, 2011 \| 8 comments
21.		37signals support satisfaction ratings now public (37signals.com)
		82 points by wlll on Feb 11, 2011 \| 27 comments
22.		Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good (readwriteweb.com)
		82 points by tortilla on Feb 11, 2011 \| 44 comments
23.		And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999) (jwz.org)
		77 points by Andrew-Dufresne on Feb 11, 2011 \| 37 comments
24.		Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for Mobile Partnership (microsoft.com)
		77 points by andre3k1 on Feb 11, 2011 \| 15 comments
25.		PlayStation 3 Hacker Must Allow Sony to Inspect His Hard Drive (wired.com)
		77 points by ssclafani on Feb 11, 2011 \| 57 comments
26.		F1 Engine Power Secrets (2000) (pureluckdesign.com)
		71 points by libpcap on Feb 11, 2011 \| 43 comments
27.		Offshoring: does it ever work? (stackoverflow.com)
		68 points by Unosolo on Feb 11, 2011 \| 66 comments
28.		Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers. (reddit.com)
		67 points by jedberg on Feb 11, 2011 \| 105 comments
29.		Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed (engadget.com)
		63 points by tomh- on Feb 11, 2011 \| 47 comments
30.		Whitney Tilson: Why We Covered Our Netflix Short (seekingalpha.com)
		63 points by njohnw on Feb 11, 2011 \| 37 comments
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