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1. How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) (nytimes.com)
223 points by Jasber on Feb 19, 2010 | 95 comments
2. Check Out What Happened When I Unsubscribed From Groupon’s Email (mixergy.com)
143 points by AndrewWarner on Feb 19, 2010 | 26 comments
3. Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube (fsf.org)
139 points by tjr on Feb 19, 2010 | 43 comments
4. Flow (wikipedia.org)
98 points by simonreed on Feb 19, 2010 | 29 comments
5. GHC Haskell switches to an LLVM backend (haskell.org)
87 points by dons on Feb 19, 2010 | 19 comments
6. FBI: Albert Einstein (fbi.gov)
84 points by helwr on Feb 19, 2010 | 53 comments
7. Why I Hate Your Web App (drawar.com)
79 points by cisforcody on Feb 19, 2010 | 26 comments
8. Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go? (linkedin.com)
80 points by cwan on Feb 19, 2010 | 27 comments
9. The Mariana Trench To Scale (i-am-bored.com)
76 points by DeusExMachina on Feb 19, 2010 | 26 comments
10. Dear Eric, the proper response is I'm sorry (gigaom.com)
75 points by mattjung on Feb 19, 2010 | 63 comments
11. Blonde we like wins Downhill (Last name rhymes with "Bonn") (uvexsports.com)
74 points by st3fan on Feb 19, 2010 | 18 comments
12. The Derivation of Y Combinator (catonmat.net)
74 points by pkrumins on Feb 19, 2010 | 15 comments
13. JQuery 1.4.2 Released (jquery.com)
71 points by Brentley_11 on Feb 19, 2010 | 27 comments
14. How to Solder [comic] (andie.se)
71 points by danw on Feb 19, 2010 | 11 comments
15. Jessica Hische - Why you should not hire me for web design (jessicahische.com)
67 points by twampss on Feb 19, 2010 | 26 comments
16. Algorithms as a Service (mikesingleton.net)
57 points by msingleton on Feb 19, 2010 | 29 comments
17. "Aardvark was the sixth idea that we tried..." (ventilla.posterous.com)
54 points by zain on Feb 19, 2010 | 10 comments
18. Software patents are the problem not the answer (unionsquareventures.com)
52 points by pmjordan on Feb 19, 2010 | 26 comments
19. Why the Maya used a 260-day calendar (jonudell.net)
51 points by prakash on Feb 19, 2010 | 3 comments
20. Apple bans hackers from App Store (cnet.com)
50 points by jmtame on Feb 19, 2010 | 27 comments
21. Upcoming Startup Incubator Deadlines (kaljundi.com)
44 points by _pius on Feb 19, 2010 | 10 comments
22. Yahoo Traffic Server: 700k lines of code, 9 months (yahoo.net)
44 points by leej on Feb 19, 2010 | 9 comments
23. A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars (cdixon.org)
44 points by prakash on Feb 19, 2010 | 11 comments
24. Clever tactic for generating buzz. (forrst.com)
42 points by mhunter on Feb 19, 2010 | 20 comments
25. A complete list of things caused by global warming (numberwatch.co.uk)
42 points by DanielBMarkham on Feb 19, 2010 | 25 comments
26. Making Disqus faster (disqus.com)
41 points by simanyay on Feb 19, 2010 | 6 comments
27. Major legal victory for open source in US (Java Model Railroad Interface case) (h-online.com)
40 points by pmjordan on Feb 19, 2010 | 12 comments
28. It's becoming easier/more difficult to experience being an outsider (economist.com)
40 points by ebun on Feb 19, 2010 | 10 comments
29. $89 pocket oscilloscope (justblair.co.uk)
39 points by timthorn on Feb 19, 2010 | 25 comments
30. Burstsort : the fastest known in-memory string sorting algorithm (rmit.edu.au)
39 points by fogus on Feb 19, 2010 | 7 comments

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