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1. A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular. (paulbiggar.com)
146 points by pbiggar on Feb 8, 2010 | 58 comments
2. I made $622,322.96 in 2009 from affiliate marketing. (reddit.com)
130 points by sadiq on Feb 8, 2010 | 42 comments
3. I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA. (reddit.com)
128 points by quilby on Feb 8, 2010 | 85 comments
4. Beautiful Code (alarmingdevelopment.org)
125 points by gozzoo on Feb 8, 2010 | 33 comments
5. Google's Parisian Love Superbowl Ad (youtube.com)
120 points by spencerfry on Feb 8, 2010 | 107 comments
6. 1964 Modem Reaches Out And Touches The Internet (retrothing.com)
111 points by skorks on Feb 8, 2010 | 33 comments
7. The iPhone obsession (quirksmode.org)
108 points by joelg87 on Feb 8, 2010 | 80 comments
8. Hacker News Headline Generator (blarworld.net)
101 points by jbenz on Feb 8, 2010 | 34 comments
9. Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? (theatlantic.com)
96 points by raganwald on Feb 8, 2010 | 76 comments
10. Verizon Blocks 4chan (readwriteweb.com)
82 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 8, 2010 | 23 comments
11. We love xkcd (olganunes.com)
80 points by aresant on Feb 8, 2010 | 22 comments
12. Pharaoh's snake (youtube.com)
77 points by est on Feb 8, 2010 | 24 comments
13. The Facts About Diamonds (and why I don’t like De Beers) (depletedcranium.com)
77 points by billpg on Feb 8, 2010 | 41 comments
14. Bye Bye Github (eizesus.com)
73 points by razerbeans on Feb 8, 2010 | 68 comments
15. You need to use error-correcting memory (lambda-diode.com)
68 points by skorks on Feb 8, 2010 | 30 comments
16. Haml Sucks for Content (chriseppstein.github.com)
67 points by chriseppstein on Feb 8, 2010 | 33 comments
17. How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month (highscalability.com)
60 points by z8000 on Feb 8, 2010 | 23 comments
18. Why Most People Think Memorizing Historical Facts is Useless (and Why It Isn’t) (historyatourhouse.com)
58 points by dwwoelfel on Feb 8, 2010 | 21 comments
19. The App Store: Quality control without the quality (37signals.com)
58 points by cmelbye on Feb 8, 2010 | 54 comments
20. A new kind of freemium: Give away the whole, sell the pieces (statsheet.com)
58 points by mitrca on Feb 8, 2010 | 26 comments
21. From Python to Clojure (brehaut.net)
58 points by alrex021 on Feb 8, 2010 | 12 comments
22. If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too (guardian.co.uk)
55 points by rglovejoy on Feb 8, 2010 | 47 comments
23. "How to...if nobody is following you on twitter" reply from the target audience (romansnitko.posterous.com)
54 points by snitko on Feb 8, 2010 | 20 comments
24. 21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men (wired.com)
54 points by adamhowell on Feb 8, 2010 | 33 comments
25. Django Advent 1.2 (djangoadvent.com)
53 points by idan on Feb 8, 2010 | 3 comments
26. Dear HN: I wrote an SVG charting library. What do you think? (kilianvalkhof.com)
52 points by kilian on Feb 8, 2010 | 26 comments
27. Lou's Pseudo 3d Page (gorenfeld.net)
50 points by skorks on Feb 8, 2010 | 6 comments
28. Emulating Empathy (steveblank.com)
50 points by nathanh on Feb 8, 2010 | 21 comments
29. Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting (centernetworks.com)
46 points by somethingrand on Feb 8, 2010 | 44 comments
30. Choosing The Best CSS Framework: A Complete Guide (devsnippets.com)
46 points by vladocar on Feb 8, 2010 | 19 comments

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