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1.		U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ (torrentfreak.com)
		430 points by Uncle_Sam on Feb 16, 2011 \| 152 comments
2.		Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack (arstechnica.com)
		345 points by abraham on Feb 16, 2011 \| 83 comments
3.		Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson (washingtonpost.com)
		274 points by acangiano on Feb 16, 2011 \| 84 comments
4.		Why are you people defending Apple? (techcrunch.com)
		233 points by Andrex on Feb 16, 2011 \| 209 comments
5.		The Technology Behind Convore (eflorenzano.com)
		220 points by conesus on Feb 16, 2011 \| 36 comments
6.		Reminder: "Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever" (jamesgolick.com)
		169 points by abhay on Feb 16, 2011 \| 34 comments
7.		Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		157 points by wigginus on Feb 16, 2011 \| 78 comments
8.		IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas) (people.mozilla.com)
		144 points by tomeast on Feb 16, 2011 \| 86 comments
9.		Apple’s Three Laws of Developers (yourhead.tumblr.com)
		139 points by berberich on Feb 16, 2011 \| 47 comments
10.		Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps. (wildeboer.net)
		131 points by mikecane on Feb 16, 2011 \| 131 comments
11.		787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing (latimes.com)
		129 points by pointillistic on Feb 16, 2011 \| 95 comments
12.		Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review (experts-exchange.com)
		126 points by dolphenstein on Feb 16, 2011 \| 135 comments
13.		A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost (williamhilsum.com)
		121 points by sathyabhat on Feb 16, 2011 \| 49 comments
14.		Taskforce (YC W11) Helps You Organize Your Inbox and Become a Taskmaster (techcrunch.com)
		110 points by niccolop on Feb 16, 2011 \| 51 comments
15.		C Language Resources (mycplus.com)
		105 points by RBerenguel on Feb 16, 2011 \| 18 comments
16.		Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven Mrgan (mrgan.tumblr.com)
		103 points by davidcann on Feb 16, 2011 \| 19 comments
17.		What if Hudson loses its plugins? (java.net)
		101 points by tomeast on Feb 16, 2011 \| 26 comments
18.		Yuri Milner pays $150k Y Combinator investments by ‘making it rain’ (founderdaily.com)
		96 points by rriepe on Feb 16, 2011 \| 19 comments
19.		Urban sql injection (seanbonner.tumblr.com)
		94 points by freedrull on Feb 16, 2011 \| 17 comments
20.		Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' (yahoo.com)
		88 points by mjfern on Feb 16, 2011 \| 122 comments
21.		Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You (nytimes.com)
		87 points by davewiner on Feb 16, 2011 \| 22 comments
22.		Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net). (tumblr.com)
		87 points by hughesdan on Feb 16, 2011 \| 130 comments
23.		Nokia Plan B fails after only 36 hours (nokiaplanb.com)
		89 points by nyellin on Feb 16, 2011 \| 35 comments
24.		Facebook pages are worthless for your startup. Go where the early adopters are. (thestartupfoundry.com)
		86 points by g0atbutt on Feb 16, 2011 \| 21 comments
25.		Apple is actually asking for 100% of SaaS mobile revenue (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		83 points by bdfh42 on Feb 16, 2011 \| 106 comments
26.		World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10) (xconomy.com)
		83 points by waderoush on Feb 16, 2011 \| 33 comments
27.		Guile 2.0 is out (gmane.org)
		81 points by vu3rdd on Feb 16, 2011 \| 42 comments
28.		NokiaPlanB was a hoax (engadget.com)
		78 points by lid on Feb 16, 2011 \| 25 comments
29.		Ask HN: I need advice. Major problems with my business & co-founder
		77 points by helpmehnkenobi on Feb 16, 2011 \| 36 comments
30.		Are Silicon Valley’s Engineers Underpaid? (fastcompany.com)
		75 points by mjfern on Feb 16, 2011 \| 115 comments
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