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1.		Dudes, this is so not REST (mooseyard.com)
		310 points by mccutchen on March 15, 2011 \| 130 comments
2.		Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username (caledonianrecord.com)
		278 points by ssclafani on March 15, 2011 \| 93 comments
3.		iOS Libraries (appdevmag.com)
		264 points by coderholic on March 15, 2011 \| 76 comments
4.		Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake (kevinrose.com)
		239 points by sahillavingia on March 15, 2011 \| 81 comments
5.		Parsing: the solved problem that isn't (tratt.net)
		200 points by ltratt on March 15, 2011 \| 47 comments
6.		JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support (jruby.org)
		195 points by petercooper on March 15, 2011 \| 40 comments
7.		Why no looting in Japan? (cnn.com)
		192 points by sunjain on March 15, 2011 \| 185 comments
8.		Letter heads, by Firefox labs (simurai.com)
		190 points by Spyou on March 15, 2011 \| 13 comments
9.		Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives? (tex.stackexchange.com)
		176 points by zem on March 15, 2011 \| 122 comments
10.		Time Warner Cable trying to make municipal fiber illegal in North Carolina (innovationpolicy.org)
		174 points by IgorPartola on March 15, 2011 \| 59 comments
11.		Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming (arstechnica.com)
		161 points by lotusleaf1987 on March 15, 2011 \| 78 comments
12.		The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I have ever heard (thenextweb.com)
		151 points by BorisBomega on March 15, 2011 \| 37 comments
13.		Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now (theregister.co.uk)
		142 points by lipowicztom on March 15, 2011 \| 150 comments
14.		Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant) (world-nuclear-news.org)
		133 points by Element_ on March 15, 2011 \| 215 comments
15.		Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User and a Developer (dantup.com)
		131 points by ct on March 15, 2011 \| 80 comments
16.		A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking (aws.typepad.com)
		125 points by jeffbarr on March 15, 2011 \| 34 comments
17.		Bottom just fell out of Nikkei (nikkei.com)
		125 points by jarek on March 15, 2011 \| 127 comments
18.		Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network (frenzyapp.com)
		120 points by sant0sk1 on March 15, 2011 \| 38 comments
19.		Accidental SEO: How I got 400,000 page views without even knowing it (ginzametrics.com)
		107 points by jsomers on March 15, 2011 \| 45 comments
20.		Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' (networkworld.com)
		103 points by barredo on March 15, 2011 \| 81 comments
21.		What's so special about Y Combinator? (kleppmann.com)
		99 points by martinkl on March 15, 2011 \| 41 comments
22.		A complete Internet web server built into an Ethernet (RJ-45) jack (inventables.com)
		97 points by tzm on March 15, 2011 \| 34 comments
23.		Functional Thinking after OO (squirrel.pl)
		97 points by fogus on March 15, 2011 \| 62 comments
24.		New Flash zero-day exploit that allows system takeover (adobe.com)
		89 points by ck2 on March 15, 2011 \| 43 comments
25.		TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests (wired.com)
		85 points by jvilalta on March 15, 2011 \| 36 comments
26.		Tldr summary: deliberate practice for expert performance (vivekhaldar.com)
		84 points by gandalfgeek on March 15, 2011 \| 13 comments
27.		Germany shuts down seven reactors‎ because of Fokushima (reuters.com)
		77 points by y0ghur7_xxx on March 15, 2011 \| 132 comments
28.		The Surgeon Who Removed His Own Appendix (theatlantic.com)
		75 points by J3L2404 on March 15, 2011 \| 7 comments
29.		Milk: Machine Learning Toolkit for Python (luispedro.org)
		74 points by adulau on March 15, 2011 \| 12 comments
30.		How a handful of geeks defied the USSR (owni.fr)
		72 points by paulgerhardt on March 15, 2011 \| 11 comments
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