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1. How I Fired Myself (mkrecny.com)
620 points by mkrecny on Feb 27, 2013 | 411 comments
2. Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance (code.google.com)
258 points by thijser on Feb 27, 2013 | 120 comments
3. Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video (gist.github.com)
245 points by Daiz on Feb 27, 2013 | 137 comments
4. Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls (arstechnica.com)
229 points by Steveism on Feb 27, 2013 | 129 comments
5. Help Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act (eff.org)
221 points by Steveism on Feb 27, 2013 | 30 comments
6. How PHP's foreach works (stackoverflow.com)
196 points by vlucas on Feb 27, 2013 | 43 comments
7. Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields (dropthebit.com)
194 points by robin_reala on Feb 27, 2013 | 71 comments
8. The Deep Insights of Alan Kay (servicestack.net)
191 points by mythz on Feb 27, 2013 | 95 comments
9. Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS (plus.google.com)
179 points by platz on Feb 27, 2013 | 58 comments
10. The Glass Bicycle (dcurt.is)
167 points by relation on Feb 27, 2013 | 177 comments
11. What it's like to work with Mark Pincus (sashmackinnon.com)
168 points by joshbuckley on Feb 27, 2013 | 68 comments
12. Thalmic's (YC W13) MYO draws 10,000 preorders in 2 days (communitech.ca)
147 points by TonyReinhart on Feb 27, 2013 | 45 comments
13. A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my laptop (paralleluniverse.co)
143 points by pron on Feb 27, 2013 | 64 comments
14. Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says (torrentfreak.com)
136 points by fraqed on Feb 27, 2013 | 100 comments
15. Erlang 16B Released (erlang.org)
125 points by davidw on Feb 27, 2013 | 33 comments
16. We use Trello. (codetunes.com)
126 points by szymo on Feb 27, 2013 | 61 comments
17. Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods (thenextweb.com)
115 points by apoorvamehta on Feb 27, 2013 | 57 comments
18. Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong (gist.github.com)
107 points by kefeizhou on Feb 27, 2013 | 29 comments
19. The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired (articulateventures.com)
104 points by excid3 on Feb 27, 2013 | 117 comments
20. Building A Paid App For Firefox OS (hacks.mozilla.org)
108 points by chrismorgan on Feb 27, 2013 | 45 comments
21. FreedomBox Version 0.1 Released (freedomboxfoundation.org)
106 points by krg on Feb 27, 2013 | 24 comments
22. Django with Visual Studio (windowsazure.com)
104 points by juice13 on Feb 27, 2013 | 73 comments
23. Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? (isc.org)
103 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 27, 2013 | 131 comments
24. 3D Printed Car Is Nearing Production (wired.com)
104 points by Libertatea on Feb 27, 2013 | 78 comments
25. Infamous "Hacker" Ankit Fadia revealed (forbesindia.com)
103 points by manojlds on Feb 27, 2013 | 53 comments
26. Permanent - the new spreadsheet for iPad (getpermanent.com)
99 points by jashmenn on Feb 27, 2013 | 60 comments
27. My new medical research startup launches today: let me know what you think (metamed.com)
94 points by kf on Feb 27, 2013 | 102 comments
28. I Can Detect Your Facebook Username, Using W3C Standard (homakov.blogspot.com)
96 points by homakov on Feb 27, 2013 | 57 comments
29. This Is Why You Can’t Have Nice Things, Yahoos (techcrunch.com)
89 points by coloneltcb on Feb 27, 2013 | 107 comments
30. Alan Kay on Marshal McLuhan and the Personal Computer (kokonautlabs.wordpress.com)
83 points by antoniuschan99 on Feb 27, 2013 | 18 comments

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