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1.
The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software) (dailykos.com)
326 points by ph0rque on Feb 17, 2011 | 119 comments
2.
Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone (switched.com)
271 points by Uncle_Sam on Feb 17, 2011 | 206 comments
3.
The Cognitive Style of Unix
239 points by gandalfgeek on Feb 17, 2011 | 68 comments
4.
Poll: Tech Bubble?
224 points by stevenj on Feb 17, 2011 | 198 comments
5.
Langton's ant (wikipedia.org)
176 points by guyr on Feb 17, 2011 | 20 comments
6.
It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme (pehub.com)
173 points by cwan on Feb 17, 2011 | 58 comments
7.
What Google knows about you (google.com)
169 points by udp on Feb 17, 2011 | 51 comments
8.
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (rollingstone.com)
158 points by kongqiu on Feb 17, 2011 | 93 comments
9.
Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship? (crunchgear.com)
128 points by solipsist on Feb 17, 2011 | 98 comments
10.
How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit (bit-tech.net)
130 points by m0hit on Feb 17, 2011 | 54 comments
11.
Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing
116 points by aschobel on Feb 17, 2011 | 41 comments
12.
Django and Python 3 (alexgaynor.net)
110 points by dermatthias on Feb 17, 2011 | 17 comments
13.
Using git and dropbox together (stackoverflow.com)
110 points by nreece on Feb 17, 2011 | 56 comments
14.
Ask IBM's Watson Research Team Anything (reddit.com)
106 points by ww520 on Feb 17, 2011 | 27 comments
15.
Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon (physics.stackexchange.com)
94 points by jyro2080 on Feb 17, 2011 | 43 comments
16.
Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improvements, Targetable VM (rubini.us)
90 points by cscotta on Feb 17, 2011 | 21 comments
17.
Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games (techcrunch.com)
93 points by AntiRush on Feb 17, 2011 | 17 comments
18.
Naughty Dog used Google SketchUp for Uncharted 2 development (geek.com)
86 points by ukdm on Feb 17, 2011 | 26 comments
19.
Y Combinator founder: there is no tech bubble (venturebeat.com)
79 points by rhartsock on Feb 17, 2011 | 53 comments
20.
Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one. (sigusr2.net)
80 points by apgwoz on Feb 17, 2011 | 32 comments
21.
The "Donald Duck as prior art" case (iusmentis.com)
76 points by shrikant on Feb 17, 2011 | 16 comments
22.
Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack. (vodpod.com)
72 points by cfontes on Feb 17, 2011 | 27 comments
23.
Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving common web problems. (amplifyjs.com)
70 points by nicksergeant on Feb 17, 2011 | 19 comments
24.
Help wanted — jobless need not apply (yahoo.com)
68 points by evo_9 on Feb 17, 2011 | 66 comments
25.
Show HN: I made an Android app that gives you an extra phone number to give out (android.com)
67 points by dustball on Feb 17, 2011 | 25 comments
26.
Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language (sciencedirect.com)
67 points by lotusleaf1987 on Feb 17, 2011 | 46 comments
27.
Are Mathematicians In Jeopardy? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
61 points by amichail on Feb 17, 2011 | 44 comments
28.
Report: PSN hacked, custom firmware could pose security risk to users (arstechnica.com)
60 points by evo_9 on Feb 17, 2011 | 19 comments
29.
50 Scholarships for Developers to Launch next week
59 points by jasonmcalacanis on Feb 17, 2011 | 19 comments
30.
A Tweet's Effect on SEO Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study (seomoz.org)
56 points by dtran on Feb 17, 2011 | 13 comments

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