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1. Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform" (engadget.com)
513 points by ldayley on Feb 9, 2011 | 196 comments
2. Breaking the web with hash-bangs (isolani.co.uk)
287 points by Terretta on Feb 9, 2011 | 94 comments
3. Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox (chrome.google.com)
288 points by jkatka on Feb 9, 2011 | 91 comments
4. HN now serving a million page views on weekdays (ycombinator.com)
279 points by pg on Feb 9, 2011 | 80 comments
5. Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet (techcrunch.com)
243 points by ericflo on Feb 9, 2011 | 54 comments
6. The Next Six Months (daringfireball.net)
239 points by thushan on Feb 9, 2011 | 218 comments
7. UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison (cnbc.com)
209 points by rmah on Feb 9, 2011 | 110 comments
8. House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers (wired.com)
181 points by tshtf on Feb 9, 2011 | 39 comments
9. How The FCC Plans To Destroy GPS – A Simple Explanation (freegeographytools.com)
166 points by bwsd on Feb 9, 2011 | 58 comments
10. The most common phone number: 214-748-3647 (computerworld.com)
146 points by solipsist on Feb 9, 2011 | 61 comments
11. Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability (stanford.edu)
136 points by taraharris on Feb 9, 2011 | 51 comments
12. Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?
125 points by shelvy on Feb 9, 2011 | 168 comments
13. Spotify is second largest source of revenue in Europe for labels (arcticstartup.com)
124 points by vilpponen on Feb 9, 2011 | 42 comments
14. How Rails Developers do Ajax in 2011 (chadfowler.com)
118 points by chadfowler on Feb 9, 2011 | 23 comments
15. How to train your brain to flip to a new language (bitesizeirishgaelic.com)
119 points by mise on Feb 9, 2011 | 70 comments
16. Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition is out (elsevierdirect.com)
116 points by mattyb on Feb 9, 2011 | 33 comments
17. Sparrow, new Mac mail client out of beta and #1 on Mac App Store (techcrunch.com)
116 points by indiekid on Feb 9, 2011 | 81 comments
18. How ThatHigh solved the chicken and egg problem and grew to 1 million pageviews (insight.io)
110 points by il on Feb 9, 2011 | 30 comments
19. Using a belt sander to foil biometric fingerprints (jacquesmattheij.com)
111 points by Luc on Feb 9, 2011 | 67 comments
20. Show HN: Pen.io (pen.io)
108 points by feint on Feb 9, 2011 | 96 comments
21. Google 2000 vs. Google 2011 (mattcutts.com)
109 points by sjs on Feb 9, 2011 | 62 comments
22. Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (1978) (youtube.com)
94 points by jaybol on Feb 9, 2011 | 14 comments
23. 4-Hour Profitable Project: Viral Marketing Explained (madebyloren.com)
92 points by guynamedloren on Feb 9, 2011 | 28 comments
24. Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails Part 2 (jamesyu.org)
93 points by jamesjyu on Feb 9, 2011 | 19 comments
25. HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, Native App Development An Oncoming Rocket Ship (techcrunch.com)
92 points by danielrhodes on Feb 9, 2011 | 84 comments
26. I want role models who are happy, not rich (codercofounder.wordpress.com)
91 points by ibagrak on Feb 9, 2011 | 20 comments
27. Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods (techcrunch.com)
84 points by transburgh on Feb 9, 2011 | 33 comments
28. The Path Forward: Ruby 1.9.2 (heroku.com)
84 points by _pius on Feb 9, 2011 | 6 comments
29. Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today (palm.com)
80 points by malte on Feb 9, 2011 | 40 comments
30. Interest in 3D animation? Get Messiah Studio Pro for $40 ($1200 retail value) (projectmessiah.com)
77 points by davidjhall on Feb 9, 2011 | 47 comments

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