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1.		The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (classics.mit.edu)
		237 points by mindcrime on Feb 3, 2013 \| 129 comments
2.		C++ containers that save memory and time (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		231 points by dsr12 on Feb 3, 2013 \| 111 comments
3.		AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone (clickboom.me)
		200 points by joelrunyon on Feb 3, 2013 \| 152 comments
4.		Why police lie under oath (nytimes.com)
		190 points by lisper on Feb 3, 2013 \| 124 comments
5.		Hacker News Karma Tracker (hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com)
		179 points by freework on Feb 3, 2013 \| 98 comments
6.		On Python security amidst recent Rails/YAML vulnerabilities (nedbatchelder.com)
		161 points by whalesalad on Feb 3, 2013 \| 44 comments
7.		DC-area schools consider copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by newbie12 on Feb 3, 2013 \| 87 comments
8.		PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks (pushbullet.com)
		151 points by Guzba on Feb 3, 2013 \| 55 comments
9.		Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea (programmingisterrible.com)
		147 points by tinsel on Feb 3, 2013 \| 60 comments
10.		A look inside the Final Fantasy 7 Game Engine [pdf] (sourceforge.net)
		139 points by jfaucett on Feb 3, 2013 \| 22 comments
11.		The Mechanical Transmission of Power – Jerker Line Systems (lowtechmagazine.com)
		129 points by youngerdryas on Feb 3, 2013 \| 30 comments
12.		Periodis Web – A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000 (euratlas.net)
		124 points by atas on Feb 3, 2013 \| 48 comments
13.		A Simplified Modern Approach to Stoicism (philosophy-of-cbt.com)
		118 points by edmaroferreira on Feb 3, 2013 \| 48 comments
14.		Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Eight Books Everyone Should Read (giantfreakinrobot.com)
		113 points by kumarski on Feb 3, 2013 \| 95 comments
15.		Life found deep below Antarctic ice (sciencenews.org)
		113 points by dsil on Feb 3, 2013 \| 30 comments
16.		Freely available programming books (stackoverflow.com)
		110 points by ralphchurch on Feb 3, 2013 \| 29 comments
17.		Poll: Do you find article title changes annoying?
		107 points by markokocic on Feb 3, 2013 \| 38 comments
18.		The 19th Century Painting That Most Blockbuster Movie Posters Are Based On (tor.com)
		95 points by subsystem on Feb 3, 2013 \| 29 comments
19.		Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps (phoronix.com)
		93 points by microwise on Feb 3, 2013 \| 41 comments
20.		Alexander The Great's Battle at the River Jhelum (richeast.org)
		92 points by yoshizar on Feb 3, 2013 \| 42 comments
21.		Worse Than Useless: Personal Security Images (worsethanuseless.com)
		93 points by lann on Feb 3, 2013 \| 79 comments
22.		One-third of Europe's software industry is SAP (zdnet.com)
		90 points by chl on Feb 3, 2013 \| 58 comments
23.		Segway inventor's next endeavor (cnn.com)
		79 points by mactitan on Feb 3, 2013 \| 37 comments
24.		Hapi, new Node.js framework (a prologue) (hueniverse.com)
		77 points by webista on Feb 3, 2013 \| 16 comments
25.		Vulnerabilities in dozens of Military and Pentagon websites (pastebin.com)
		77 points by Garbage on Feb 3, 2013 \| 25 comments
26.		The Next Supermodel (economist.com)
		74 points by pappyo on Feb 3, 2013 \| 48 comments
27.		YOU_ARE_DEAD, a 1D Roguelike (github.com/rupa)
		72 points by lysol on Feb 3, 2013 \| 42 comments
28.		A Brilliant Parody of DRM (forbes.com/sites/timothylee)
		66 points by jessaustin on Feb 3, 2013 \| 54 comments
29.		Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform (varunarora.com)
		65 points by 2pointsomone on Feb 3, 2013 \| 78 comments
30.		Ideas that could change the world (wired.com)
		63 points by kevbam on Feb 3, 2013 \| 42 comments
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