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1.		Why I Retired From Apple (donmelton.com)
		300 points by swilliams on Feb 18, 2013 \| 63 comments
2.		Money Trees – Rap Genius Response to Heroku (rapgenius.com)
		283 points by tomlemon on Feb 18, 2013 \| 100 comments
3.		Diablo in JavaScript (mitallast.github.com)
		281 points by sebkomianos on Feb 18, 2013 \| 113 comments
4.		WebSocket proxy support added to nginx trunk (nginx.org)
		261 points by runesoerensen on Feb 18, 2013 \| 54 comments
5.		Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog (on-advertising.tumblr.com)
		256 points by iamchmod on Feb 18, 2013 \| 140 comments
6.		A nice, little known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (hamberg.no)
		252 points by ehamberg on Feb 18, 2013 \| 120 comments
7.		Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
		245 points by alanthonyc on Feb 18, 2013 \| 47 comments
8.		Show HN: What colour is your IP address? (meetstrange.com)
		208 points by imhobson on Feb 18, 2013 \| 73 comments
9.		So what happened to the HN server?
		170 points by huhtenberg on Feb 18, 2013 \| 127 comments
10.		Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free (hackermonthly.com)
		162 points by ValentineC on Feb 18, 2013 \| 40 comments
11.		A peek into the curious world of HDMI copy protection (aperturelabs.com)
		154 points by jackjet on Feb 18, 2013 \| 35 comments
12.		Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users (mauriciogardini.com)
		139 points by mauriciogardini on Feb 18, 2013 \| 70 comments
13.		US Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case (nytimes.com)
		141 points by cpeterso on Feb 18, 2013 \| 79 comments
14.		India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college (medianama.com)
		138 points by dotmanish on Feb 18, 2013 \| 44 comments
15.		There's no magic: virtualenv edition (hackerschool.com)
		134 points by akaptur on Feb 18, 2013 \| 24 comments
16.		Opera sends 90 out the door (translate.google.com)
		121 points by runarb on Feb 18, 2013 \| 113 comments
17.		Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain (nytimes.com)
		119 points by robg on Feb 18, 2013 \| 75 comments
18.		glsl.js - abusing WebGL shaders for efficient 2D (greweb.fr)
		107 points by gren on Feb 18, 2013 \| 24 comments
19.		Wikipedia processing. PyPy vs CPython benchmark (rz.scale-it.pl)
		101 points by robert-zaremba on Feb 18, 2013 \| 35 comments
20.		Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations (cnet.com)
		101 points by 6thSigma on Feb 18, 2013 \| 88 comments
21.		Tweet crashes Mac Twitter client (jwz.org)
		93 points by kikibobo69 on Feb 18, 2013 \| 57 comments
22.		Show HN: Stop asking your clients "What browser are you on?" (browser-details.com)
		93 points by jonasvp on Feb 18, 2013 \| 82 comments
23.		Asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers (badassjs.com)
		89 points by Peteris on Feb 18, 2013 \| 56 comments
24.		Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test (nytimes.com)
		86 points by rrreese on Feb 18, 2013 \| 99 comments
25.		Spec analysis: XBox720 vs PS4 (eurogamer.net)
		84 points by Strom on Feb 18, 2013 \| 73 comments
26.		Things I found on GitHub: shell history (corte.si)
		80 points by spindritf on Feb 18, 2013 \| 81 comments
27.		The Twilight Years of Cap'n Crunch (2007) (wsj.com)
		77 points by davidroberts on Feb 18, 2013 \| 40 comments
28.		Hackers Turn Burger King’s Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by coloneltcb on Feb 18, 2013 \| 46 comments
29.		A/B Testing (jackg.org)
		70 points by jack7890 on Feb 18, 2013 \| 31 comments
30.		The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police (torrentfreak.com)
		73 points by evo_9 on Feb 18, 2013 \| 19 comments
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