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1.From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings (msdn.com)
313 points by ecaron on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
2.Splash screens == sloth (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
258 points by kylehansen on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 242 comments [ext]
3.How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already Owns) (domai.nr)
203 points by ebcase on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
4. Actor-critic loops and lean tools: field notes from agent builders (app.build)
357 points by foz4677 265 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.Computing 10,000x More Efficiently (slides) (media.mit.edu)
185 points by silentbicycle on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
5.Why I Still Use Emacs (gnuvince.wordpress.com)
178 points by markokocic on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
6.Scamming the scammers โ€“ catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed (troyhunt.com)
180 points by troyhunt on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps (amon.cx)
168 points by ajaxaddicted on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
8.Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived (nytimes.com)
163 points by reneherse on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
9.The shutdown of library.nu (randomink.org)
144 points by tathagatadg on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
10. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
10.Learn from Haskell - Functional, Reusable JavaScript (seanhess.github.com)
139 points by embwbam on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
11.Itโ€™s Just Math (raganwald.posterous.com)
135 points by raganwald on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
12.Convore Shutting Down (convore.com)
130 points by arunagarwal on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
13. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Using CSS without HTML (mathiasbynens.be)
125 points by princeverma on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
14.Notifications are Evil (informationdiet.com)
121 points by cjoh on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
15.Show HN: QR Pixel encodes pixel art in QR codes. (qrpixel.com)
119 points by kbaker on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
16. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma (hbr.org)
117 points by 6ren on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
17.Why the NFL bans iPads (and other technology) (ericelias.org)
111 points by ericelias on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.All Conj 2011 Videos Available (clojure.com)
100 points by pron on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
19. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
19.Better than templates, building highly dynamic web pages (fastmail.fm)
95 points by robmueller on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
20.Debian Announces Position on Software Patents (debian.org)
88 points by sciurus on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.Advanced caching in Rails (broadcastingadam.com)
86 points by ranit8 on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.On naming (quietlyamused.org)
85 points by lars512 on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
23.Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online? (33bits.org)
82 points by chl on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
24.Berkeley DB Architecture - NoSQL Before NoSQL Was Cool (highscalability.com)
81 points by pron on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit (reuters.com)
81 points by 6ren on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
26.Do browsers parse javascript on every page load? (stackoverflow.com)
79 points by dazbradbury on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
27.Another Xcode Version, Another Example of Crappy Apple QA (thecodist.com)
72 points by AliCollins on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
28. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
28.Google buys whatโ€™s left of defunct search startup Cuil (venturebeat.com)
70 points by zoowar on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
29.From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year (nytimes.com)
58 points by michaelkscott on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
30.5 years away from programming, boy have things changed (dannydo.es)
53 points by fellars on Feb 20, 2012 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
31. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments

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