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1.Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building (embeddedart.com)
197 points by spudlyo on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 207 comments [ext]
2.Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures hides lawsuits via 1000+ shell companies (techdirt.com)
179 points by mbrubeck on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
3.Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. (shadyurl.com)
156 points by _pius on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
4. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
4.Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3 (lwn.net)
140 points by functional-tree on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
5.Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically (rwmj.wordpress.com)
123 points by fogus on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
6.Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs (dangrover.com)
124 points by dangrover on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
7. Metsera's bold antitrust hack: let Novo Nordisk buy us twice (archive.ph)
377 points by psx3247 84 days ago | hide | 153 comments
7.CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards (techcrunch.com)
103 points by anson on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
8.Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation (hbs.edu)
102 points by vijaydev on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
9.Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge (thetimezoneconverter.com)
96 points by jonathanberger on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
10. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 474 days ago | hide | 135 comments
10.TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript (and HTML5 Canvas) (bramstein.com)
86 points by bramstein on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
11.Failin.gs (failin.gs)
74 points by ams1 on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
12.The 7 words that could improve Copyright (arstechnica.com)
63 points by CoryOndrejka on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
13. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 8 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
13.DRM from hell. (arstechnica.com)
63 points by GrandMasterBirt on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
14.Three Types of Passion (figuringshitout.com)
61 points by danspodcast on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
15.The story of "Bean," a free word processor for Mac OS X (bean-osx.com)
61 points by jasongullickson on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
16. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
16.Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish (nytimes.com)
58 points by mtalantikite on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
17.Subversion is now Apache Subversion (wandisco.com)
59 points by jameseh on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
18.Chumby's Chinese Factories (read previous posts too) (bunniestudios.com)
57 points by joshwa on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
19. Why Hitchhiking Taught Kevin Kelly a Theory of Grace (kk.org)
312 points by oan7422 99 days ago | hide | 83 comments
19.RIM switching to open source WebKit (h-online.com)
57 points by pmjordan on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
20.Facebook Overtakes Yahoo: Now the Second Most Visited Site in U.S. (mashable.com)
51 points by Concours on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
21.On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design (buildingreputation.com)
51 points by ALee on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
22. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
22.Wordpress Hosted Blogs are Down (centernetworks.com)
45 points by jfornear on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
23.Poor Teen Sleeping Due To Lack Of Blue Light? (eurekalert.org)
44 points by cwan on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
24.Gigamonkeys Quarterly (gigamonkeys.com)
40 points by zachbeane on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
25.Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi leechers at TechEd (techedbackstage.net)
40 points by shrikant on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
26.Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors (33bits.org)
39 points by randomwalker on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
27.Vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope (synthgear.com)
37 points by soundsop on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Wall Street's Bailout Hustle (rollingstone.com)
36 points by chaostheory on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
29.Git 1.7.0 release notes (kernel.org)
36 points by labria on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.Writing a Lisp Interpreter in Go (bobappleyard.wordpress.com)
34 points by fogus on Feb 18, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
31. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments

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