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1.		If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source (arstechnica.com)
		282 points by llambda on Feb 26, 2012 \| 68 comments
2.		Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (arcfn.com)
		246 points by pmarin on Feb 26, 2012 \| 73 comments
3.		Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy (gwern.net)
		233 points by simonbrown on Feb 26, 2012 \| 42 comments
4.		Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle (nytimes.com)
		200 points by gkanai on Feb 26, 2012 \| 53 comments
5.		Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates (rubyonrails.org)
		195 points by anthony_franco on Feb 26, 2012 \| 96 comments
6.		Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be. (salon.com)
		169 points by tokenadult on Feb 26, 2012 \| 100 comments
7.		FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling (wsj.com)
		146 points by ahmadss on Feb 26, 2012 \| 46 comments
8.		500 Words before 8am (informationdiet.com)
		143 points by phreeza on Feb 26, 2012 \| 17 comments
9.		Mechanical Turk Stations for the Urban Poor (chrismaury.com)
		137 points by chrmaury on Feb 26, 2012 \| 155 comments
10.		We're not paying enough for apps (cnet.com)
		119 points by bmac on Feb 26, 2012 \| 113 comments
11.		Useful use of cat(1) (in-ulm.de)
		115 points by gnosis on Feb 26, 2012 \| 45 comments
12.		Raising funding as a first-time founder (joel.is)
		110 points by joelg87 on Feb 26, 2012 \| 18 comments
13.		Red flags in emails to angel investors (gabrielweinberg.com)
		103 points by duck on Feb 26, 2012 \| 38 comments
14.		Nobody Understands REST or HTTP (steveklabnik.com)
		100 points by shinvee on Feb 26, 2012 \| 70 comments
15.		How Web Graphics Affect Conversions (kissmetrics.com)
		98 points by JayInt on Feb 26, 2012 \| 39 comments
16.		Show HN: HackerNews News Recommender (normansoven.com)
		97 points by excerionsforte on Feb 26, 2012 \| 36 comments
17.		WebSockets versus REST? (infoq.com)
		94 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 26, 2012 \| 54 comments
18.		Drinking from an open container in microgravity (video) (physicscentral.com)
		93 points by ColinWright on Feb 26, 2012 \| 13 comments
19.		Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed (deviantart.com)
		89 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Feb 26, 2012 \| 9 comments
20.		Jennifer Widom's db-class Retrospective: From 100 Students to 100,000 (sigmod.org)
		90 points by chl on Feb 26, 2012 \| 4 comments
21.		Once you take money, the clock starts ticking (cdixon.org)
		83 points by dwynings on Feb 26, 2012 \| 16 comments
22.		Former Apple VP now turns to a PhD in bioinformatics (hhmi.org)
		79 points by ahalan on Feb 26, 2012 \| 23 comments
23.		Lat/Long to Time Zone API (askgeo.com)
		74 points by champion on Feb 26, 2012 \| 41 comments
24.		Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG (furidamu.org)
		75 points by Inufu on Feb 26, 2012 \| 26 comments
25.		How I Beat Repetitive Stress Injury (henrikwarne.com)
		67 points by henrik_w on Feb 26, 2012 \| 62 comments
26.		Measuring fragmentation in Android (pxldot.com)
		66 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 26, 2012 \| 46 comments
27.		Facebook, Flickr, others accused of reading text messages (zdnet.com)
		68 points by pewfly on Feb 26, 2012 \| 15 comments
28.		Tim Gowers replies to Elsevier's open letter (gowers.wordpress.com)
		64 points by ColinWright on Feb 26, 2012 \| 9 comments
29.		Video lectures & presentations about Clojure (alexott.net)
		60 points by falava on Feb 26, 2012 \| 4 comments
30.		Up in flames (cringely.com)
		60 points by ableal on Feb 26, 2012 \| 14 comments
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