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1.Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW (ocw.mit.edu)
332 points by stiff on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
2.Thunderbolt (apple.com)
320 points by arnemart on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
3.New MacBook Pro series (apple.com)
276 points by frytaz on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 347 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support (jquery.com)
184 points by jonknee on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
5.Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault (appleinsider.com)
156 points by sandipc on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
6.Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python) (liip.ch)
151 points by jv22222 on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
7. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
7.How to build your own "Watson Jr." in your basement (ibm.com)
147 points by flapjack on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
8.The lost art of pickpockets (slate.com)
137 points by yummyfajitas on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (chromium.org)
133 points by atularora on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook (businessweek.com)
125 points by rhartsock on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
11.1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09) (airbnb.com)
123 points by Raphomet on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
12.Use git+github in the classroom (github.com/edu)
117 points by lfborjas on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
13. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.FreeBSD 8.2 released (freebsd.org)
109 points by _ut0p on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
14.New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume (apple.com)
102 points by pclark on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
15.The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores (web.mit.edu)
101 points by bitsai on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
16. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
16.Be careful of who you work with (chadfowler.com)
100 points by chadfowler on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
17.Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50 (startupgods.com)
98 points by chaosmachine on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
18.Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart (37signals.com)
84 points by cfontes on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
19. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 13 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More (optimizely.com)
89 points by dsiroker on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
20.PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning (couragetoresist.org)
83 points by gst on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
21.The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com)
76 points by shawndumas on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 7 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.Kill yr ads… the don’ts of iPhone app marketing (taptaptap.com)
74 points by gaiusparx on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
23.Find yourself covered in slime? You're being mugged. (shazow.posterous.com)
71 points by lotusleaf1987 on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
24.Hacking your apartment's electronic entry system (jmtame.posterous.com)
72 points by jmtame on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 35 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.Hummingbird, Real Time Web Traffic Visualization (nuttnet.net)
72 points by boh on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
26.The Azul Garbage Collector (infoq.com)
73 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
27.Advice to newbie on learning Lisp/Clojure (learningclojure.com)
70 points by cwb on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.AnandTech Motorola Xoom Review (anandtech.com)
68 points by losvedir on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
29.The Hyperpublic Programming Challenge (hyperpublic.com)
68 points by way66 on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
30.Intel Launches Next Gen Itanium Monster Processor (hothardware.com)
64 points by MojoKid on Feb 24, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
31. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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