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1.
Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You (thecodist.com)
407 points by qw on Feb 28, 2012 | 254 comments
2.
Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby (hyperpolyglot.org)
382 points by charlax on Feb 28, 2012 | 87 comments
3.
Submarine Cable Map (submarinecablemap.com)
317 points by T-zex on Feb 28, 2012 | 109 comments
4.
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com)
304 points by cycojesus on Feb 28, 2012 | 136 comments
5.
Linus Torvalds on C++ (cat-v.org)
288 points by NARKOZ on Feb 28, 2012 | 181 comments
6.
The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge (inc.com)
271 points by bgossage on Feb 28, 2012 | 103 comments
7.
Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out
263 points by lesterfremn on Feb 28, 2012 | 94 comments
8.
About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets (nicolasgallagher.com)
219 points by necolas on Feb 28, 2012 | 23 comments
9.
Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today (leanpub.com)
203 points by spatten on Feb 28, 2012 | 82 comments
10.
The uncanny valley of web scraping (zemanta.com)
172 points by Swizec on Feb 28, 2012 | 49 comments
11.
Linus torvalds on security (plus.google.com)
153 points by sagarun on Feb 28, 2012 | 128 comments
12.
How PayPal and Apple’s Fraud Policies Punish the Honest User (lockergnome.com)
135 points by MattRyanLG on Feb 28, 2012 | 72 comments
13.
Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library (yasiv.com)
128 points by anvaka on Feb 28, 2012 | 40 comments
14.
A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible (dadgum.com)
122 points by angrycoder on Feb 28, 2012 | 77 comments
15.
Real World Ocaml announced (realworldocaml.org)
116 points by j2labs on Feb 28, 2012 | 55 comments
16.
JavaScript at Khan Academy (ejohn.org)
112 points by michaelkscott on Feb 28, 2012 | 60 comments
17.
IPad Event Confirmed: Apple Invites Press to 'Touch' Something (mashable.com)
104 points by vinothgopi on Feb 28, 2012 | 79 comments
18.
Tell President Obama to support the Federal Research Public Access Act (scottaaronson.com)
105 points by smanek on Feb 28, 2012 | 5 comments
19.
Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously (theatlantic.com)
101 points by marcloney on Feb 28, 2012 | 26 comments
20.
Vitess: Scaling MySQL databases for the web (code.google.com)
101 points by 1010011010 on Feb 28, 2012 | 16 comments
21.
Microsoft Research shows off see-through 3D display (extremetech.com)
99 points by evo_9 on Feb 28, 2012 | 20 comments
22.
Vimbits: share snippets of your .vimrc (vimbits.com)
98 points by tonyskn on Feb 28, 2012 | 7 comments
23.
IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical qubit computers close (extremetech.com)
96 points by ukdm on Feb 28, 2012 | 30 comments
24.
Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit? (bbc.co.uk)
88 points by ColinWright on Feb 28, 2012 | 29 comments
25.
Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World (theatlantic.com)
81 points by brianbreslin on Feb 28, 2012 | 9 comments
26.
2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors (gramfeed.com)
79 points by krisrak on Feb 28, 2012 | 12 comments
27.
Best HTML5/CSS3 Presentation Frameworks (zoomzum.com)
82 points by neeti on Feb 28, 2012 | 13 comments
28.
Breaking Good: How to synthesize Sudafed from crystal meth (boingboing.net)
78 points by brianl on Feb 28, 2012 | 18 comments
29.
The Mounting Minuses at Google+ (wsj.com)
73 points by ssclafani on Feb 28, 2012 | 56 comments
30.
We need to kill off the localStorage API (kinlan.me)
68 points by kinlan on Feb 28, 2012 | 56 comments

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