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1. Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? (componentowl.com)
318 points by jirinovotny on Feb 12, 2012 | 66 comments
2. Ask HN: What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?
224 points by spIrr on Feb 12, 2012 | 167 comments
3. Why Concatenative Programming Matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)
219 points by evincarofautumn on Feb 12, 2012 | 40 comments
4. Reddit: a necessary change in policy (reddit.com)
175 points by citricsquid on Feb 12, 2012 | 199 comments
5. Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs... (aws.typepad.com)
163 points by bluemoon on Feb 12, 2012 | 57 comments
6. One Story of Nikola Tesla (flyingmoose.org)
161 points by diwank on Feb 12, 2012 | 44 comments
7. Post-Mortems For Ten Products I've Built (thirdyearmba.com)
131 points by dlevine on Feb 12, 2012 | 29 comments
8. Why Facebook is never safe (newmatilda.com)
123 points by bootload on Feb 12, 2012 | 57 comments
9. The 17x17 problem solved (computationalcomplexity.org)
120 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 12, 2012 | 37 comments
10. Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail
120 points by AmazingWill on Feb 12, 2012 | 141 comments
11. Honest People Might Be Dangerous (sebastianmarshall.com)
112 points by lionhearted on Feb 12, 2012 | 103 comments
12. Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C (github.com/udp)
111 points by udp on Feb 12, 2012 | 54 comments
13. Why so many Python web frameworks? (bitworking.org)
110 points by ColinWright on Feb 12, 2012 | 59 comments
14. The Cold Reading Technique (How to Read Minds Like a Stage Magician) (denisdutton.com)
106 points by tokenadult on Feb 12, 2012 | 24 comments
15. Anger for Path after Privacy Breach: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining (nytimes.com)
102 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 12, 2012 | 62 comments
16. From r60 to Go 1 (gophersays.com)
97 points by BarkMore on Feb 12, 2012 | 27 comments
17. Stop the paranoia: it doesn't matter if Google reads our email (maxmasnick.com)
95 points by masnick on Feb 12, 2012 | 89 comments
18. D3: Thinking with Joins (ocks.org)
94 points by idan on Feb 12, 2012 | 5 comments
19. Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be (maps.google.com)
88 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2012 | 42 comments
20. SendHub (YC W12) Lets Businesses Text Their Customers, Teachers Text For Free (techcrunch.com)
89 points by ashrust on Feb 12, 2012 | 33 comments
21. Ask HN: What would you work on, if money was of no concern?
67 points by swalsh on Feb 12, 2012 | 118 comments
22. Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface (breaknenter.org)
66 points by fourk on Feb 12, 2012 | 22 comments
23. Don't say you weren't warned (roughtype.com)
62 points by razorburn on Feb 12, 2012 | 4 comments
24. NASA unplugs last mainframe (networkworld.com)
57 points by coondoggie on Feb 12, 2012 | 31 comments
25. Pet Projects (fogus.me)
56 points by llambda on Feb 12, 2012 | 6 comments
26. The End of the Mexican Road (bothsidesofthetable.com)
53 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2012 | 10 comments
27. Happy Family, Successful Start-up. Impossible? (inc.com)
51 points by mirceagoia on Feb 12, 2012 | 26 comments
28. Checking account hacked by Tagged member. 48 hours, no response from Tagged. (taeyoungwoo.com)
50 points by taeyoungwoo on Feb 12, 2012 | 37 comments
29. Want me to download your app? Please do this. (wheresitworking.com)
50 points by wheresitworking on Feb 12, 2012 | 24 comments
30. Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac OSX (joshdzielak.com)
49 points by dzello on Feb 12, 2012 | 17 comments

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