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1.		White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws (groklaw.net)
		259 points by wiks on Feb 12, 2011 \| 176 comments
2.		New string search algorithm (volnitsky.com)
		181 points by akaus on Feb 12, 2011 \| 59 comments
3.		Continuous Deployment (avc.com)
		179 points by cwan on Feb 12, 2011 \| 82 comments
4.		Man places his genome in public domain, on Github (sporny.org)
		125 points by metabrew on Feb 12, 2011 \| 24 comments
5.		Stackoverflow: Are there any famous one-man-army programmers? (stackoverflow.com)
		123 points by DFectuoso on Feb 12, 2011 \| 46 comments
6.		Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway (techcrunch.com)
		119 points by icey on Feb 12, 2011 \| 23 comments
7.		Exercise #1: Learning awk Basics (bashshell.net)
		99 points by aweber on Feb 12, 2011 \| 20 comments
8.		The Netscape Dorm (1994) (jwz.org)
		98 points by vinutheraj on Feb 12, 2011 \| 28 comments
9.		Generating Worlds in a Minecraft-like Game (gamedev.net)
		95 points by JeanPierre on Feb 12, 2011 \| 21 comments
10.		Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets (nytimes.com)
		91 points by atularora on Feb 12, 2011 \| 30 comments
11.		Warning signs for the year 10,000 (damninteresting.com)
		92 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 12, 2011 \| 54 comments
12.		Help The Startup Genome Project Bring Silicon Valley To The Rest Of The World (startupgenome.cc)
		92 points by bjoernlasseh on Feb 12, 2011 \| 25 comments
13.		Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book (tecca.com)
		81 points by bretpiatt on Feb 12, 2011 \| 104 comments
14.		The Reality of Teaching in a Small School in the Bronx (anurbanteacherseducation.com)
		71 points by REducator on Feb 12, 2011 \| 40 comments
15.		Anon claims that it has the source code to Stuxnet (blogs.forbes.com)
		70 points by steveklabnik on Feb 12, 2011 \| 41 comments
16.		Some notes on making a random Erlang program (egitd) faster (hijacked.us)
		69 points by billiob on Feb 12, 2011 \| 6 comments
17.		Elopocalypse survivor — save what you can by forking, before it gets too late (piacentini.blog.br)
		68 points by Tsiolkovsky on Feb 12, 2011 \| 7 comments
18.		Volatile is Evil (bluebytesoftware.com)
		70 points by indy on Feb 12, 2011 \| 20 comments
19.		Hackers Highlight Offers of Corporate Espionage (nytimes.com)
		62 points by jayzee on Feb 12, 2011 \| 8 comments
20.		Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (ietf.org)
		60 points by davidhollander on Feb 12, 2011 \| 10 comments
21.		Introducing The Microsoft Puppet (parislemon.com)
		59 points by atularora on Feb 12, 2011 \| 63 comments
22.		The trouble with volatile (lwn.net)
		54 points by dfox on Feb 12, 2011 \| 8 comments
23.		Pandora Used to Spend 119% Of Revenue on Royalties (allthingsd.com)
		51 points by pakafka on Feb 12, 2011 \| 23 comments
24.		Intel kept in the dark over Nokia’s MeeGo plans; operators reject first device (techcrunch.com)
		48 points by solipsist on Feb 12, 2011 \| 6 comments
25.		The Engineer-Driven culture at Nokia and its problems (nytimes.com)
		48 points by suprgeek on Feb 12, 2011 \| 58 comments
26.		$1.5M Robbery of Bellagio Casino Foiled Thanks to RFID Chips (singularityhub.com)
		47 points by stefanobernardi on Feb 12, 2011 \| 19 comments
27.		Ask HN: Self-marketing?
		45 points by yuvadam on Feb 12, 2011 \| 21 comments
28.		General factor of intelligence g, a Statistical Myth (umich.edu)
		42 points by eru on Feb 12, 2011 \| 33 comments
29.		Proposal: consider scientific research papers like open source software (lemire.me)
		40 points by elehack on Feb 12, 2011 \| 16 comments
30.		Nokia USA president is out, replaced by Microsoft vet Chris Weber (engadget.com)
		39 points by mfukar on Feb 12, 2011 \| 32 comments
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