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1.The MS Surface Pro (penny-arcade.com)
440 points by kposehn on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
2.How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing (npr.org)
385 points by llambda on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
3.The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (nytimes.com)
362 points by danso on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
4. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
4.No more remote work at Yahoo (37signals.com)
323 points by mh_ on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 206 comments [ext]
5.A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome (aptiverse.com)
318 points by mrjbq7 on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
6.Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time (arstechnica.com)
258 points by llambda on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
7. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
7.Is speed reading really possible? (skeptoid.com)
253 points by saurabh on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
8.How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube (mitchribar.com)
249 points by Reebz on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
9.Literate CoffeeScript (coffeescript.org)
234 points by jedschmidt on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
10. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
10.Thalmic (YC W13) introduces gesture control without the cameras (newscientist.com)
194 points by pauldix on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
11.Bypassing Google’s Two-Factor Authentication (duosecurity.com)
180 points by seanponeil on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
12.Shutting down my side project of two years (joshsharp.com.au)
180 points by joshsharp on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
13. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
13.We Aren’t the World (psmag.com)
174 points by dchmiel on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
14.The Next Generation of Gesture Control (getmyo.com)
161 points by peterkchen on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
15.LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform (engadget.com)
153 points by j_col on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability (understandinguncertainty.org)
142 points by leephillips on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
17.The Meaning of 'su' (pthree.org)
141 points by myko on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
18.Redshift Performance and Cost (airbnb.com)
145 points by AirbnbNerds on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
19. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Email-First Startups (ryanhoover.me)
137 points by rrhoover on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
20.Microryza (YC W13) Is A “Kickstarter” For Scientific Research (techcrunch.com)
129 points by irollboozers on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.As of today, App.net is a freemium service (app.net)
115 points by anu_gupta on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
22. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Meldium (YC W13) Controls Your Team’s Shared App Passwords For You (techcrunch.com)
108 points by bradleybuda on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
23.Who Has the Guts for Gluten? (nytimes.com)
100 points by tokenadult on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
24.Stanford Female CS Student: I Fight Impostor Syndrome (ladycoders.com)
99 points by tarahmarie on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.The True Cost of Healthcare in the US (truecostofhealthcare.org)
97 points by felipellrocha on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
26.Spoiler Alert – JQuery plugin for sensitive content (joshbuddy.github.com)
99 points by joshbuddy on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
27. [dupe] Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer (slashdot.org)
95 points by recoiledsnake on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
28. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
28.Tesla says it lost “hundreds” of orders after New York Times controversy (arstechnica.com)
89 points by protomyth on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
29.Action.IO: Web Development Server with Full Console, Online IDE and SSH Access (action.io)
86 points by habosa on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
30.Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All (techcrunch.com)
83 points by relation on Feb 25, 2013 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
31. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments

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