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1.		Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW (ocw.mit.edu)
		332 points by stiff on Feb 24, 2011 \| 44 comments
2.		Thunderbolt (apple.com)
		320 points by arnemart on Feb 24, 2011 \| 197 comments
3.		New MacBook Pro series (apple.com)
		276 points by frytaz on Feb 24, 2011 \| 347 comments
4.		JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support (jquery.com)
		184 points by jonknee on Feb 24, 2011 \| 41 comments
5.		Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault (appleinsider.com)
		156 points by sandipc on Feb 24, 2011 \| 140 comments
6.		Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python) (liip.ch)
		151 points by jv22222 on Feb 24, 2011 \| 133 comments
7.		How to build your own "Watson Jr." in your basement (ibm.com)
		147 points by flapjack on Feb 24, 2011 \| 27 comments
8.		The lost art of pickpockets (slate.com)
		137 points by yummyfajitas on Feb 24, 2011 \| 64 comments
9.		Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (chromium.org)
		133 points by atularora on Feb 24, 2011 \| 43 comments
10.		Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook (businessweek.com)
		125 points by rhartsock on Feb 24, 2011 \| 37 comments
11.		1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09) (airbnb.com)
		123 points by Raphomet on Feb 24, 2011 \| 50 comments
12.		Use git+github in the classroom (github.com/edu)
		117 points by lfborjas on Feb 24, 2011 \| 29 comments
13.		FreeBSD 8.2 released (freebsd.org)
		109 points by _ut0p on Feb 24, 2011 \| 20 comments
14.		New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume (apple.com)
		102 points by pclark on Feb 24, 2011 \| 79 comments
15.		The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores (web.mit.edu)
		101 points by bitsai on Feb 24, 2011 \| 38 comments
16.		Be careful of who you work with (chadfowler.com)
		100 points by chadfowler on Feb 24, 2011 \| 36 comments
17.		Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50 (startupgods.com)
		98 points by chaosmachine on Feb 24, 2011 \| 93 comments
18.		Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart (37signals.com)
		84 points by cfontes on Feb 24, 2011 \| 54 comments
19.		Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More (optimizely.com)
		89 points by dsiroker on Feb 24, 2011 \| 12 comments
20.		PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning (couragetoresist.org)
		83 points by gst on Feb 24, 2011 \| 70 comments
21.		The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com)
		76 points by shawndumas on Feb 24, 2011 \| 7 comments
22.		Kill yr ads… the don’ts of iPhone app marketing (taptaptap.com)
		74 points by gaiusparx on Feb 24, 2011 \| 23 comments
23.		Find yourself covered in slime? You're being mugged. (shazow.posterous.com)
		71 points by lotusleaf1987 on Feb 24, 2011 \| 40 comments
24.		Hacking your apartment's electronic entry system (jmtame.posterous.com)
		72 points by jmtame on Feb 24, 2011 \| 35 comments
25.		Hummingbird, Real Time Web Traffic Visualization (nuttnet.net)
		72 points by boh on Feb 24, 2011 \| 17 comments
26.		The Azul Garbage Collector (infoq.com)
		73 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 24, 2011 \| 13 comments
27.		Advice to newbie on learning Lisp/Clojure (learningclojure.com)
		70 points by cwb on Feb 24, 2011 \| 27 comments
28.		AnandTech Motorola Xoom Review (anandtech.com)
		68 points by losvedir on Feb 24, 2011 \| 44 comments
29.		The Hyperpublic Programming Challenge (hyperpublic.com)
		68 points by way66 on Feb 24, 2011 \| 41 comments
30.		Intel Launches Next Gen Itanium Monster Processor (hothardware.com)
		64 points by MojoKid on Feb 24, 2011 \| 35 comments
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