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1.		Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? (componentowl.com)
		318 points by jirinovotny on Feb 12, 2012 \| 66 comments
2.		Ask HN: What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?
		224 points by spIrr on Feb 12, 2012 \| 167 comments
3.		Why Concatenative Programming Matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)
		219 points by evincarofautumn on Feb 12, 2012 \| 40 comments
4.		Reddit: a necessary change in policy (reddit.com)
		175 points by citricsquid on Feb 12, 2012 \| 199 comments
5.		Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs... (aws.typepad.com)
		163 points by bluemoon on Feb 12, 2012 \| 57 comments
6.		One Story of Nikola Tesla (flyingmoose.org)
		161 points by diwank on Feb 12, 2012 \| 44 comments
7.		Post-Mortems For Ten Products I've Built (thirdyearmba.com)
		131 points by dlevine on Feb 12, 2012 \| 29 comments
8.		Why Facebook is never safe (newmatilda.com)
		123 points by bootload on Feb 12, 2012 \| 57 comments
9.		The 17x17 problem solved (computationalcomplexity.org)
		120 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 12, 2012 \| 37 comments
10.		Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail
		120 points by AmazingWill on Feb 12, 2012 \| 141 comments
11.		Honest People Might Be Dangerous (sebastianmarshall.com)
		112 points by lionhearted on Feb 12, 2012 \| 103 comments
12.		Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C (github.com/udp)
		111 points by udp on Feb 12, 2012 \| 54 comments
13.		Why so many Python web frameworks? (bitworking.org)
		110 points by ColinWright on Feb 12, 2012 \| 59 comments
14.		The Cold Reading Technique (How to Read Minds Like a Stage Magician) (denisdutton.com)
		106 points by tokenadult on Feb 12, 2012 \| 24 comments
15.		Anger for Path after Privacy Breach: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining (nytimes.com)
		102 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 12, 2012 \| 62 comments
16.		From r60 to Go 1 (gophersays.com)
		97 points by BarkMore on Feb 12, 2012 \| 27 comments
17.		Stop the paranoia: it doesn't matter if Google reads our email (maxmasnick.com)
		95 points by masnick on Feb 12, 2012 \| 89 comments
18.		D3: Thinking with Joins (ocks.org)
		94 points by idan on Feb 12, 2012 \| 5 comments
19.		Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be (maps.google.com)
		88 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2012 \| 42 comments
20.		SendHub (YC W12) Lets Businesses Text Their Customers, Teachers Text For Free (techcrunch.com)
		89 points by ashrust on Feb 12, 2012 \| 33 comments
21.		Ask HN: What would you work on, if money was of no concern?
		67 points by swalsh on Feb 12, 2012 \| 118 comments
22.		Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface (breaknenter.org)
		66 points by fourk on Feb 12, 2012 \| 22 comments
23.		Don't say you weren't warned (roughtype.com)
		62 points by razorburn on Feb 12, 2012 \| 4 comments
24.		NASA unplugs last mainframe (networkworld.com)
		57 points by coondoggie on Feb 12, 2012 \| 31 comments
25.		Pet Projects (fogus.me)
		56 points by llambda on Feb 12, 2012 \| 6 comments
26.		The End of the Mexican Road (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		53 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2012 \| 10 comments
27.		Happy Family, Successful Start-up. Impossible? (inc.com)
		51 points by mirceagoia on Feb 12, 2012 \| 26 comments
28.		Checking account hacked by Tagged member. 48 hours, no response from Tagged. (taeyoungwoo.com)
		50 points by taeyoungwoo on Feb 12, 2012 \| 37 comments
29.		Want me to download your app? Please do this. (wheresitworking.com)
		50 points by wheresitworking on Feb 12, 2012 \| 24 comments
30.		Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac OSX (joshdzielak.com)
		49 points by dzello on Feb 12, 2012 \| 17 comments
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