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1.		How I Fired Myself (mkrecny.com)
		620 points by mkrecny on Feb 27, 2013 \| 411 comments
2.		Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance (code.google.com)
		258 points by thijser on Feb 27, 2013 \| 120 comments
3.		Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video (gist.github.com)
		245 points by Daiz on Feb 27, 2013 \| 137 comments
4.		Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls (arstechnica.com)
		229 points by Steveism on Feb 27, 2013 \| 129 comments
5.		Help Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act (eff.org)
		221 points by Steveism on Feb 27, 2013 \| 30 comments
6.		How PHP's foreach works (stackoverflow.com)
		196 points by vlucas on Feb 27, 2013 \| 43 comments
7.		Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields (dropthebit.com)
		194 points by robin_reala on Feb 27, 2013 \| 71 comments
8.		The Deep Insights of Alan Kay (servicestack.net)
		191 points by mythz on Feb 27, 2013 \| 95 comments
9.		Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS (plus.google.com)
		179 points by platz on Feb 27, 2013 \| 58 comments
10.		The Glass Bicycle (dcurt.is)
		167 points by relation on Feb 27, 2013 \| 177 comments
11.		What it's like to work with Mark Pincus (sashmackinnon.com)
		168 points by joshbuckley on Feb 27, 2013 \| 68 comments
12.		Thalmic's (YC W13) MYO draws 10,000 preorders in 2 days (communitech.ca)
		147 points by TonyReinhart on Feb 27, 2013 \| 45 comments
13.		A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my laptop (paralleluniverse.co)
		143 points by pron on Feb 27, 2013 \| 64 comments
14.		Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says (torrentfreak.com)
		136 points by fraqed on Feb 27, 2013 \| 100 comments
15.		Erlang 16B Released (erlang.org)
		125 points by davidw on Feb 27, 2013 \| 33 comments
16.		We use Trello. (codetunes.com)
		126 points by szymo on Feb 27, 2013 \| 61 comments
17.		Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods (thenextweb.com)
		115 points by apoorvamehta on Feb 27, 2013 \| 57 comments
18.		Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong (gist.github.com)
		107 points by kefeizhou on Feb 27, 2013 \| 29 comments
19.		The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired (articulateventures.com)
		104 points by excid3 on Feb 27, 2013 \| 117 comments
20.		Building A Paid App For Firefox OS (hacks.mozilla.org)
		108 points by chrismorgan on Feb 27, 2013 \| 45 comments
21.		FreedomBox Version 0.1 Released (freedomboxfoundation.org)
		106 points by krg on Feb 27, 2013 \| 24 comments
22.		Django with Visual Studio (windowsazure.com)
		104 points by juice13 on Feb 27, 2013 \| 73 comments
23.		Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? (isc.org)
		103 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 27, 2013 \| 131 comments
24.		3D Printed Car Is Nearing Production (wired.com)
		104 points by Libertatea on Feb 27, 2013 \| 78 comments
25.		Infamous "Hacker" Ankit Fadia revealed (forbesindia.com)
		103 points by manojlds on Feb 27, 2013 \| 53 comments
26.		Permanent - the new spreadsheet for iPad (getpermanent.com)
		99 points by jashmenn on Feb 27, 2013 \| 60 comments
27.		My new medical research startup launches today: let me know what you think (metamed.com)
		94 points by kf on Feb 27, 2013 \| 102 comments
28.		I Can Detect Your Facebook Username, Using W3C Standard (homakov.blogspot.com)
		96 points by homakov on Feb 27, 2013 \| 57 comments
29.		This Is Why You Can’t Have Nice Things, Yahoos (techcrunch.com)
		89 points by coloneltcb on Feb 27, 2013 \| 107 comments
30.		Alan Kay on Marshal McLuhan and the Personal Computer (kokonautlabs.wordpress.com)
		83 points by antoniuschan99 on Feb 27, 2013 \| 18 comments
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