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1.All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase (37signals.com)
180 points by marilyn on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
2.Homemade CPU – from scratch (14.by)
118 points by BarsMonster on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
3.Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory (duarte.com)
114 points by FraaJad on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
4. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.5 million Dropboxes (dropbox.com)
114 points by mqt on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
5.Roger Ebert: The Essential Man (esquire.com)
110 points by apu on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
6.The Case For An Older Woman (okcupid.com)
103 points by smokinn on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Hate Mail from Third Graders (pbs.org)
96 points by jamesbritt on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
8.The night I Met Einstein (akshar100.wordpress.com)
87 points by digamber_kamat on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
9.A Collection Of Redis Use Cases (paperplanes.de)
85 points by paulsb on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
10. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
10.'I was falsely branded a paedophile' (bbc.co.uk)
84 points by jacquesm on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
11.1024 days on hacker news (cubeofm.com)
83 points by maxklein on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
12.Richard P. Feynman - The Relation of Science and Religion (caltech.edu)
82 points by vinutheraj on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
13. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
13.Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (2003) (telegraph.co.uk)
78 points by bgray on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
14.Bookmarklet: Reddit-like Collapsible Threads for Hacker News (alexander.kirk.at)
81 points by akirk on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
15.Snaptalent Lessons Learned - Lesson Three - Spend Time on Things That Matter (jamiequint.com)
63 points by jamiequint on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
16. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 22 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
16.No, We're Not the stupid ones (philcrissman.com)
62 points by philcrissman on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
17.Hamachi: A billion-dollar tech revolution that can still happen if you build it. (garry.posterous.com)
59 points by rantfoil on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Response from Pitchfork Regarding Tumblr Subdomain (pitchfork.tumblr.com)
59 points by aichcon on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
19. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
19.Fav4.org Is a Dead Simple but Very Attractive Start Page (fav4.org)
56 points by ashishbharthi on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
20.Ask HN: How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? [ext]
52 points by chl on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
21.The Great Q&A Wars of 2009 ~ 2014 (Aardvark, Hunch, StackOverflow, and Quora) (adamsmith.cc)
49 points by adamsmith on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 23 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
22.Death By Revenue Plan (steveblank.com)
48 points by white_eskimo on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
23.On MicroSD Problems (bunniestudios.com)
49 points by bentoner on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
24.How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2 Million Per Year Business Selling Themes (mixergy.com)
47 points by iisbum on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Stackoverflow: Joel and Jeff want VC Money? Say What? (cforcoding.com)
43 points by cletus on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
26.CCC Fake Fingerprint (youtube.com)
43 points by jacquesm on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
27.How I made the Met Office admit its climate-change data was wrong (timesonline.co.uk)
42 points by prat on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
28. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
28.5 Reasons Founders Hate the Question “So What Do You Do?” (jordancooper.wordpress.com)
41 points by jordancooper on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
29.Do what defines you (zdziarski.com)
41 points by jgrahamc on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup (ashmaurya.com)
42 points by ashmaurya on Feb 16, 2010 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
31. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments

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