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1.		Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site (bootswatch.com)
		407 points by parkov on Feb 15, 2012 \| 53 comments
2.		How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis (reddit.com)
		369 points by switz on Feb 15, 2012 \| 89 comments
3.		Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ (daringfireball.net)
		368 points by mrshoe on Feb 15, 2012 \| 249 comments
4.		The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds (plus.google.com)
		355 points by rictic on Feb 15, 2012 \| 64 comments
5.		Books every self-taught computer scientist should read (themoritzfamily.com)
		229 points by ericmoritz on Feb 15, 2012 \| 76 comments
6.		The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (chronicle.com)
		220 points by peroo on Feb 15, 2012 \| 134 comments
7.		Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to address books (allthingsd.com)
		210 points by bproper on Feb 15, 2012 \| 106 comments
8.		Unix as IDE (sanctum.geek.nz)
		204 points by dchest on Feb 15, 2012 \| 104 comments
9.		Responsive Text (frankieroberto.com)
		192 points by jasoncartwright on Feb 15, 2012 \| 60 comments
10.		Can’t monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action (supportbee.com)
		188 points by prateekdayal on Feb 15, 2012 \| 86 comments
11.		How To Crash A Party (nevblog.com)
		180 points by bretthardin on Feb 15, 2012 \| 61 comments
12.		Louis CK inspires Jim Gaffigan to sell comedy special for $5 online (whosay.com)
		174 points by rkudeshi on Feb 15, 2012 \| 67 comments
13.		The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection (chill.com)
		151 points by skotzko on Feb 15, 2012 \| 18 comments
14.		The destructive desktop — Linux in trouble? (ngas.ch)
		141 points by larelli on Feb 15, 2012 \| 76 comments
15.		Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In Flows (sachagreif.com)
		139 points by sgdesign on Feb 15, 2012 \| 86 comments
16.		Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data (venturebeat.com)
		126 points by kirbmart on Feb 15, 2012 \| 54 comments
17.		Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming regulation and loss of funds (arstechnica.com)
		122 points by hansbo on Feb 15, 2012 \| 46 comments
18.		MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion Queries per Minute (mysql.com)
		122 points by jsavimbi on Feb 15, 2012 \| 33 comments
19.		When Will Being a Non-TSA Airport Become a Competitive Advantage? (mfshot.com)
		118 points by wmeredith on Feb 15, 2012 \| 74 comments
20.		What Craigslist Did Right: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords (jobpoacher.com)
		120 points by heyrhett on Feb 15, 2012 \| 33 comments
21.		I Have No Idea [Why Apple Featured My App] (mikeswanson.com)
		117 points by MaysonL on Feb 15, 2012 \| 21 comments
22.		Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners (wired.com)
		114 points by pwg on Feb 15, 2012 \| 58 comments
23.		Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet? (pastebin.com)
		105 points by fady on Feb 15, 2012 \| 103 comments
24.		Tetris Game in 140 Bytes of JavaScript (gist.github.com)
		104 points by aemkei on Feb 15, 2012 \| 10 comments
25.		New D programming language forum, written entirely in D (dlang.org)
		97 points by rpeden on Feb 15, 2012 \| 26 comments
26.		Author Steven Johnson on what e-books are missing: "Skimming." (findings.com)
		99 points by ssaraiya on Feb 15, 2012 \| 63 comments
27.		Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups (bostinno.com)
		103 points by xfax on Feb 15, 2012 \| 60 comments
28.		The Dangerous "Research Works Act" (techcrunch.com)
		97 points by RichardPrice on Feb 15, 2012 \| 31 comments
29.		Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it? (msdn.com)
		94 points by mmastrac on Feb 15, 2012 \| 19 comments
30.		Engineer rigs nerf gun to shoot himself when his stories are rejected in Pivotal (evantahler.com)
		88 points by petenixey on Feb 15, 2012 \| 13 comments
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