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1.		Hello. I'm a compiler (stackoverflow.com)
		472 points by andremedeiros on Feb 19, 2013 \| 154 comments
2.		Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
		433 points by daenz on Feb 19, 2013 \| 175 comments
3.		Vim After 11 Years (statico.github.com)
		405 points by statico on Feb 19, 2013 \| 239 comments
4.		Using Silk Road (gwern.net)
		368 points by HockeyPlayer on Feb 19, 2013 \| 165 comments
5.		Nginx now supports Websockets (nginx.com)
		358 points by Jhsto on Feb 19, 2013 \| 65 comments
6.		Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com)
		324 points by maximveksler on Feb 19, 2013 \| 121 comments
7.		A Most Peculiar Test Drive – Follow Up (teslamotors.com)
		277 points by neuralnetwork on Feb 19, 2013 \| 200 comments
8.		Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem (gamasutra.com)
		258 points by Gmo on Feb 19, 2013 \| 113 comments
9.		What Does 200 Calories Look Like? (wisegeek.com)
		239 points by shawndumas on Feb 19, 2013 \| 255 comments
10.		Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks (angrystatistician.blogspot.com)
		220 points by octonion on Feb 19, 2013 \| 84 comments
11.		Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com)
		206 points by professorplumb on Feb 19, 2013 \| 32 comments
12.		Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. (nytimes.com)
		198 points by wanderingmarker on Feb 19, 2013 \| 109 comments
13.		AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef (aws.typepad.com)
		208 points by jeffbarr on Feb 19, 2013 \| 77 comments
14.		Aaron Swartz's FBI File Released (firedoglake.com)
		184 points by rabble on Feb 19, 2013 \| 52 comments
15.		The second-order-diff Git trick (moertel.com)
		180 points by malloc47 on Feb 19, 2013 \| 41 comments
16.		Dell’s Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability (arstechnica.com)
		177 points by recoiledsnake on Feb 19, 2013 \| 138 comments
17.		Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ (linuxjournal.com)
		169 points by jonasvp on Feb 19, 2013 \| 72 comments
18.		SkiFree in the Browser (basicallydan.github.com)
		157 points by basicallydan on Feb 19, 2013 \| 61 comments
19.		Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs (ox.ac.uk)
		156 points by danielwozniak on Feb 19, 2013 \| 155 comments
20.		Groundwork - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Framework (sidereel.com)
		155 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 19, 2013 \| 96 comments
21.		Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire (wired.com)
		145 points by sk2code on Feb 19, 2013 \| 45 comments
22.		Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units (mandiant.com)
		140 points by holograham on Feb 19, 2013 \| 61 comments
23.		3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air (newscientist.com)
		137 points by ColinWright on Feb 19, 2013 \| 25 comments
24.		Amazon Redshift is 10x faster and cheaper than Hadoop and Hive (slideshare.net)
		138 points by fujibee on Feb 19, 2013 \| 42 comments
25.		Security releases issued (djangoproject.com)
		128 points by hrayr on Feb 19, 2013 \| 55 comments
26.		Linux 3.8 Released (kernelnewbies.org)
		125 points by moonboots on Feb 19, 2013 \| 43 comments
27.		The Super Supercapacitor [video] (focusforwardfilms.com)
		124 points by gilli on Feb 19, 2013 \| 49 comments
28.		Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting (nathanbarry.com)
		123 points by petercooper on Feb 19, 2013 \| 53 comments
29.		Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API (textrazor.com)
		118 points by tcwc on Feb 19, 2013 \| 44 comments
30.		Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request (erlangonxen.org)
		113 points by k33l0r on Feb 19, 2013 \| 36 comments
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