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31.		Nokia USA president is out, replaced by Microsoft vet Chris Weber (engadget.com)
		39 points by mfukar on Feb 12, 2011 \| 32 comments
32.		The Joy of Coding
		38 points by jfc on Feb 12, 2011 \| 16 comments
33.		Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released (phusion.nl)
		38 points by xal on Feb 12, 2011 \| 8 comments
34.		A Lack Of Rigor Leaves Students 'Adrift' In College (npr.org)
		38 points by rblion on Feb 12, 2011 \| 13 comments
35.		Low-cost video chat robot (hackaday.com)
		36 points by ztan on Feb 12, 2011 \| 25 comments
36.		A SuperAngel’s Investment Guide (fabricegrinda.com)
		36 points by davidw on Feb 12, 2011 \| 10 comments
37.		"Find me stuff I'm interested in" (scripting.com)
		34 points by davewiner on Feb 12, 2011 \| 27 comments
38.		Ask HN: How do I sell my (M)MORPG?
		33 points by K-Zodron on Feb 12, 2011 \| 14 comments
39.		Dumped on by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge is Drowning Research (chronicle.com)
		33 points by grellas on Feb 12, 2011 \| 22 comments
40.		Poll: Why are you building a web app? (Research for my book)
		34 points by spxdcz on Feb 12, 2011 \| 35 comments
41.		Stop trying to make maths "fun" - lessons also for coding? (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
		31 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 12, 2011 \| 33 comments
42.		Larry Wall on religion and Perl culture (1999) (techgnosis.com)
		31 points by daxelrod on Feb 12, 2011 \| 61 comments
43.		Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import (thenextweb.com)
		29 points by barredo on Feb 12, 2011 \| 20 comments
44.		Google is testing a cleaner, leaner UI on Google.com (thenextweb.com)
		28 points by solipsist on Feb 12, 2011 \| 16 comments
45.		Vacuum has friction from an effect similar to the Casimir effect (nextbigfuture.com)
		27 points by cwan on Feb 12, 2011 \| 12 comments
46.		Chaos Computer Club hackers 'have a conscience' (bbc.co.uk)
		26 points by zoowar on Feb 12, 2011 \| 11 comments
47.		Crysis (EA game) leak (ea.com)
		26 points by ifesdjeen on Feb 12, 2011 \| 24 comments
48.		Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest In Groupon Or Pandora (techcrunch.com)
		25 points by sammville on Feb 12, 2011 \| 4 comments
49.		George Dahl: Machine Learning for March Madness (smellthedata.com)
		25 points by danger on Feb 12, 2011 \| 3 comments
50.		Oscar = Open Source Car (theoscarproject.org)
		25 points by puente on Feb 12, 2011 \| 12 comments
51.		Wael Ghonim: A "One-Off" for Silicon Valley? (cbsnews.com)
		24 points by cwb71 on Feb 12, 2011 \| 20 comments
52.		How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act (techcrunch.com)
		24 points by sammville on Feb 12, 2011 \| 17 comments
53.		Box2DJS - Physics Engine for JavaScript (sourceforge.net)
		23 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 12, 2011 \| 4 comments
54.		The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
		23 points by fosk on Feb 12, 2011 \| 1 comment
55.		Big Picture guy is now at Atlantic with InFocus - awesome photography blog (theatlantic.com)
		22 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2011 \| 4 comments
56.		UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross’ Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck (techcrunch.com)
		22 points by atularora on Feb 12, 2011 \| 7 comments
57.		Ask HN: In what scenarios use of node.js can be useful?
		20 points by anujkk on Feb 12, 2011 \| 21 comments
58.		Projects for Internet Access as an Inalienable Right (theunitedpersons.org)
		20 points by mazsa on Feb 12, 2011 \| 12 comments
59.		Poll: What APIs do you consume most?
		20 points by jeremyrwelch on Feb 12, 2011 \| 34 comments
60.		3 New Javascript Projects: LimeJS, jQuery Isotope and jsfx (bostinnovation.com)
		19 points by kmccarth on Feb 12, 2011
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