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1.An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection (readability.com)
478 points by bensummers on Feb 21, 2011 | 199 comments
2.Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light (reddit.com)
431 points by danteembermage on Feb 21, 2011 | 222 comments
3.The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)
401 points by twidlit on Feb 21, 2011 | 125 comments
4.Show HN: Breakup Notifier (breakupnotifier.com)
264 points by theli0nheart on Feb 21, 2011 | 118 comments
5.Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero (agentgenius.com)
256 points by gregory80 on Feb 21, 2011 | 122 comments
πŸ“š. The Economics of Decoupling (forourposterity.com)
11 min read | by Leopold Aschenbrenner | saved 208 days ago | archive
6.Changes to my life as a result of just four weeks of daily meditation (philosophistry.com)
182 points by philipkd on Feb 21, 2011 | 94 comments
7.Redis at Disqus (bretthoerner.com)
153 points by tswicegood on Feb 21, 2011 | 41 comments
8.The secret life of punctuation - ΒΆ (The Pilcrow) (shadycharacters.co.uk)
148 points by dogonwheels on Feb 21, 2011 | 20 comments
9.Typical programming interview questions. (maxnoy.com)
147 points by gaiusparx on Feb 21, 2011 | 107 comments
10.Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit (pocket-lint.com)
142 points by mjfern on Feb 21, 2011 | 37 comments
πŸ“š. Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
1 min read | by patrickcollison.com | saved 186 days ago | archive
11.Python 3.2 Released (python.org)
142 points by mattyb on Feb 21, 2011 | 51 comments
12.TinyGrab abandons iOS because of new App Store rules (tinygrab.com)
142 points by st3fan on Feb 21, 2011 | 74 comments
13.PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend (escapistmagazine.com)
136 points by Mikecsi on Feb 21, 2011 | 21 comments
14.Using an oscilloscope as a Gameboy display (flashingleds.wordpress.com)
131 points by trafficlight on Feb 21, 2011 | 8 comments
15.Google Font Directory (expanded, moved to new URL) (google.com)
133 points by moeffju on Feb 21, 2011 | 30 comments
πŸ“š. Buy the Truth, Sell the News - Bloomberg (archive.ph)
19 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 324 days ago | archive
16.Ultima Underworld bugs (dfan.org)
109 points by rsaarelm on Feb 21, 2011 | 17 comments
17.rbtrace: like strace, but for ruby code (github.com/tmm1)
101 points by tmm1 on Feb 21, 2011 | 11 comments
18.Selling Kiko: How Justin Kan sold his first YC startup on eBay (areallybadidea.com)
98 points by randall on Feb 21, 2011 | 25 comments
19.Wherein my Kiss was Rejected (jamesaltucher.com)
94 points by jaltucher on Feb 21, 2011 | 32 comments
20.No more desktop Linux systems in the German Foreign Office (h-online.com)
94 points by bjonathan on Feb 21, 2011 | 80 comments
πŸ“š. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? (dbreunig.com)
8 min read | by Drew Breunig | saved 218 days ago | archive
21.CD3WD Archives the Information Necessary to Rebuild Society (cd3wd.com)
91 points by fogus on Feb 21, 2011 | 18 comments
22.Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub? (nextmontreal.com)
88 points by evanprodromou on Feb 21, 2011 | 84 comments
23.New Ruby 1.9 Features, Tips & Tricks (igvita.com)
76 points by LiveTheDream on Feb 21, 2011 | 26 comments
24.Jacques Mattheij on: Networking without going places (swombat.com)
77 points by bensummers on Feb 21, 2011 | 13 comments
25.Google tries new angle on hiring (ft.com)
73 points by timr on Feb 21, 2011 | 64 comments
πŸ“š. The Tariffs Have Some Math - Bloomberg (archive.ph)
19 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 324 days ago | 14% read | archive
26.Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one (etilevich.wordpress.com)
72 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 21, 2011 | 45 comments
27.When to Buy Airline Tickets (dlo.me)
62 points by thmzlt on Feb 21, 2011 | 21 comments
28.What is the best advice for a startup applying to Y Combinator? (quora.com)
60 points by krn on Feb 21, 2011 | 37 comments
29.Forth vs Lisp (c2.com)
57 points by gnosis on Feb 21, 2011 | 15 comments
30.The Legend of Zelda Turns 25 (slashdot.org)
55 points by pwg on Feb 21, 2011 | 19 comments
πŸ“š. Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference? (martinalderson.com)
6 min read | by Martin Alderson | saved 191 days ago | archive

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