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1.
Viral Video About Body Scanners (tsa.gov)
448 points by maverhick on March 8, 2012 | 198 comments
2.
Advice From An Old Programmer (learnpythonthehardway.org)
429 points by bemmu on March 8, 2012 | 122 comments
3.
OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple (osmfoundation.org)
364 points by sambeau on March 8, 2012 | 151 comments
4.
Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language' (zdnet.com)
363 points by Slimy on March 8, 2012 | 118 comments
5.
Learning from 20 years of personal analytics (stephenwolfram.com)
352 points by hendler on March 8, 2012 | 59 comments
6.
Live ships map (marinetraffic.com)
257 points by jan-hocevar on March 8, 2012 | 51 comments
7.
The Evolution of a Python Programmer (gist.github.com)
255 points by jimhoff11 on March 8, 2012 | 40 comments
8.
New Reddit CEO reporting for duty (reddit.com)
248 points by hornokplease on March 8, 2012 | 41 comments
9.
Responsive.is (responsive.is)
190 points by parmgrewal on March 8, 2012 | 36 comments
10.
The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck. (syntax-k.de)
189 points by AndreyKarpov on March 8, 2012 | 108 comments
11.
A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar (github.com/chipersoft)
178 points by switz on March 8, 2012 | 36 comments
12.
An Open Letter to Warby Parker (classicspecs.tumblr.com)
177 points by jamiest on March 8, 2012 | 73 comments
13.
What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line (37signals.com)
167 points by hawke on March 8, 2012 | 67 comments
14.
npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts (gist.github.com)
151 points by jashkenas on March 8, 2012 | 79 comments
15.
What if doing your best -- at what you're best at -- isn't enough? (tedquarters.net)
150 points by DanLivesHere on March 8, 2012 | 36 comments
16.
Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data? (alastaira.wordpress.com)
133 points by sambeau on March 8, 2012 | 65 comments
17.
How I built my blog in one day (erjjones.github.com)
129 points by erjjones on March 8, 2012 | 62 comments
18.
Raspberry Pi: Manufacturing Hiccup (raspberrypi.org)
122 points by switz on March 8, 2012 | 43 comments
19.
Twitter uses SPDY (skitch.com)
119 points by ropiku on March 8, 2012 | 26 comments
20.
How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play (gamasutra.com)
108 points by pbj on March 8, 2012 | 24 comments
21.
The Cost of Cracking (priceonomics.com)
97 points by omarish on March 8, 2012 | 38 comments
22.
Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom (liamkaufman.com)
88 points by liamk on March 8, 2012 | 30 comments
23.
Sonalight (YC W12) Lets You Text While Driving Without Touching A Phone (techcrunch.com)
84 points by sskates on March 8, 2012 | 52 comments
24.
MIT awards pirate certificates to undergraduates (boston.com)
79 points by jamesbritt on March 8, 2012 | 48 comments
25.
Show HN: Petridish.org, a kickstarter for scientific research (petridish.org)
79 points by ilz on March 8, 2012 | 22 comments
26.
New Medium Instance, 64-bit bit Ubiquity, SSH Client (aws.typepad.com)
75 points by jeffbarr on March 8, 2012 | 23 comments
27.
The Mystery of 18 Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy (nytimes.com)
74 points by wallflower on March 8, 2012 | 49 comments
28.
Anonymous hacks Panda Security in response to LulzSec arrests (zdnet.com)
72 points by mck- on March 8, 2012 | 28 comments
29.
Open, moral and pragmatic (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
71 points by MikeTaylor on March 8, 2012 | 7 comments
30.
Gazehawk Team (YC S10) Joins Facebook (gazehawk.com)
65 points by lsb on March 8, 2012 | 22 comments

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