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1. Why HN was down
1049 points by pg on Feb 18, 2013 | 287 comments
2. Why I Retired From Apple (donmelton.com)
300 points by swilliams on Feb 18, 2013 | 63 comments
3. Money Trees – Rap Genius Response to Heroku (rapgenius.com)
283 points by tomlemon on Feb 18, 2013 | 100 comments
4. Diablo in JavaScript (mitallast.github.com)
281 points by sebkomianos on Feb 18, 2013 | 113 comments
5. WebSocket proxy support added to nginx trunk (nginx.org)
261 points by runesoerensen on Feb 18, 2013 | 54 comments
6. Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog (on-advertising.tumblr.com)
256 points by iamchmod on Feb 18, 2013 | 140 comments
7. A nice, little known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (hamberg.no)
252 points by ehamberg on Feb 18, 2013 | 120 comments
8. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
245 points by alanthonyc on Feb 18, 2013 | 47 comments
9. Show HN: What colour is your IP address? (meetstrange.com)
208 points by imhobson on Feb 18, 2013 | 73 comments
10. So what happened to the HN server?
170 points by huhtenberg on Feb 18, 2013 | 127 comments
11. Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free (hackermonthly.com)
162 points by ValentineC on Feb 18, 2013 | 40 comments
12. A peek into the curious world of HDMI copy protection (aperturelabs.com)
154 points by jackjet on Feb 18, 2013 | 35 comments
13. Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users (mauriciogardini.com)
139 points by mauriciogardini on Feb 18, 2013 | 70 comments
14. US Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case (nytimes.com)
141 points by cpeterso on Feb 18, 2013 | 79 comments
15. India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college (medianama.com)
138 points by dotmanish on Feb 18, 2013 | 44 comments
16. There's no magic: virtualenv edition (hackerschool.com)
134 points by akaptur on Feb 18, 2013 | 24 comments
17. Opera sends 90 out the door (translate.google.com)
121 points by runarb on Feb 18, 2013 | 113 comments
18. Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain (nytimes.com)
119 points by robg on Feb 18, 2013 | 75 comments
19. glsl.js - abusing WebGL shaders for efficient 2D (greweb.fr)
107 points by gren on Feb 18, 2013 | 24 comments
20. Wikipedia processing. PyPy vs CPython benchmark (rz.scale-it.pl)
101 points by robert-zaremba on Feb 18, 2013 | 35 comments
21. Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations (cnet.com)
101 points by 6thSigma on Feb 18, 2013 | 88 comments
22. Tweet crashes Mac Twitter client (jwz.org)
93 points by kikibobo69 on Feb 18, 2013 | 57 comments
23. Show HN: Stop asking your clients "What browser are you on?" (browser-details.com)
93 points by jonasvp on Feb 18, 2013 | 82 comments
24. Asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers (badassjs.com)
89 points by Peteris on Feb 18, 2013 | 56 comments
25. Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test (nytimes.com)
86 points by rrreese on Feb 18, 2013 | 99 comments
26. Spec analysis: XBox720 vs PS4 (eurogamer.net)
84 points by Strom on Feb 18, 2013 | 73 comments
27. Things I found on GitHub: shell history (corte.si)
80 points by spindritf on Feb 18, 2013 | 81 comments
28. The Twilight Years of Cap'n Crunch (2007) (wsj.com)
77 points by davidroberts on Feb 18, 2013 | 40 comments
29. Hackers Turn Burger King’s Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess (techcrunch.com)
77 points by coloneltcb on Feb 18, 2013 | 46 comments
30. A/B Testing (jackg.org)
70 points by jack7890 on Feb 18, 2013 | 31 comments

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