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1.SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM (ign.com)
389 points by ScotterC on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 198 comments [ext]
2.The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble (nytimes.com)
360 points by danso on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
3.Days since last known Java 0-day exploit (java-0day.com)
291 points by anon1385 on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
4. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 15 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Flat UI DMCA Takedown (github.com/designmodo)
260 points by elliotlai on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
5.Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter (kickstarter.com)
245 points by mmastrac on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
6.How to "open" a microchip and what's inside? (zeptobars.ru)
209 points by networked on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
7.Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online (yoursachet.com)
183 points by aam1r on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
8.Flat UI, mirrored (github.com/iurevych)
180 points by aviraldg on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
9.Coding Cloud Heroku May Face Lawsuit Over Bait-and-Switch Claims (wired.com)
178 points by wwarnerandrew on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP Addresses (torrentfreak.com)
153 points by fraqed on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
11.Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser (runnable.com)
142 points by sundip on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
12.Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV (wustl.edu)
137 points by somethingnew on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
13. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 16 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
13.Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders (flashvhtml.com)
136 points by polskibus on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
14.Heroku Class Action (herokuclassaction.com)
134 points by jeremyjarvis on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
15.Daemon Showdown: Upstart vs. Runit vs. Systemd vs. Circus vs. God (cueup.com)
133 points by pjscott on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
16. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.VNC Viewer for Google Chrome (chrome.google.com)
119 points by jbmorley on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
17.AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp, and Java [pdf] (aw.com)
109 points by davidroberts on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
18.The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor (hypercritical.co)
102 points by brianwillis on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
19. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released (php.net)
96 points by Jeremy1026 on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
20.Don't be mean, it's stupid (layervault.com)
90 points by yesplorer on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 103 comments [ext]
21.'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck? (bbc.co.uk)
89 points by cwan on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.Growth and Government (samaltman.posthaven.com)
88 points by sama on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
23.All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3 (geek.com)
85 points by memoryfailure on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
24.Introducing Braintree.js (braintreepayments.com)
84 points by europa on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
25. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.Russian scientists report new DNA under subglacial Lake Vostok (cbsnews.com)
81 points by bra-ket on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.Clojure's Default Reader is Unsafe (learningclojure.com)
80 points by llambda on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
27.Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce. (trychec.com)
76 points by devan on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
28. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
28.DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaper… (allthingsdistributed.com)
71 points by werner on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.Pandora CEO stepping down (pandora.com)
66 points by hansy on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
30.Machine Learning in Practice – Newsletter (daoudclarke.github.com)
66 points by daoudc on March 8, 2013 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
31. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments

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