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1. Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right
469 points by jacques_chester on March 3, 2011 | 154 comments
2. The blind man who taught himself to see (mensjournal.com)
388 points by philk on March 3, 2011 | 84 comments
3. Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005) (joelonsoftware.com)
286 points by niyazpk on March 3, 2011 | 106 comments
4. Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies (fosspatents.blogspot.com)
275 points by FlorianMueller on March 3, 2011 | 67 comments
5. Pixel Perfect map of china (o.cn)
233 points by daleharvey on March 3, 2011 | 62 comments
6. Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio
216 points by ekanes on March 3, 2011 | 83 comments
7. Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit (reddit.com)
207 points by jimmyjim on March 3, 2011 | 32 comments
8. Hipmunk for the iPhone - here's how we built it (hipmunk.com)
173 points by kn0thing on March 3, 2011 | 35 comments
9. How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page (37signals.com)
163 points by wlll on March 3, 2011 | 24 comments
10. How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings (johndcook.com)
159 points by gnosis on March 3, 2011 | 22 comments
11. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty (theatlantic.com)
139 points by b-man on March 3, 2011 | 78 comments
12. Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don’t Exist (torrentfreak.com)
130 points by Uncle_Sam on March 3, 2011 | 147 comments
13. Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Million Page Views A Month (highscalability.com)
128 points by ZeroMinx on March 3, 2011 | 61 comments
14. Twitter Was Act One (vanityfair.com)
126 points by jbrun on March 3, 2011 | 24 comments
15. Techmeme vs Hacker News (avc.com)
125 points by guptaneil on March 3, 2011 | 47 comments
16. A Rare Disagreement (marco.org)
116 points by iamclovin on March 3, 2011 | 90 comments
17. Evil.css: an evil stylesheet for injecting into unsuspecting users' webpages (github.com/tlrobinson)
109 points by tlrobinson on March 3, 2011 | 25 comments
18. Build a CMS, no forms allowed (bergie.iki.fi)
109 points by bergie on March 3, 2011 | 42 comments
19. GHC 7 is released. with LLVM, improved inliner, improved thread scheduler ... (haskell.org)
98 points by dons on March 3, 2011 | 14 comments
20. Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web (gq-magazine.co.uk)
94 points by emmanuelory on March 3, 2011 | 47 comments
21. What's New in Sinatra 1.2? (sinatrarb.com)
91 points by wlll on March 3, 2011 | 17 comments
22. An 'athletic body' doesn't always look the same. (ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com)
90 points by armandososa on March 3, 2011 | 30 comments
23. iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement (betanews.com)
85 points by rkudeshi on March 3, 2011 | 52 comments
24. The Apple Strategy Tax (arstechnica.com)
81 points by ugh on March 3, 2011 | 24 comments
25. Firefox 4 Web Demos: announcing Web O’ Wonder (hacks.mozilla.org)
74 points by mbrubeck on March 3, 2011 | 10 comments
26. Motorola Xoom a huge disappointment (xmlaficionado.com)
74 points by zdw on March 3, 2011 | 51 comments
27. The Gaiman Principle: piracy is advertising & why Ramen Music encourages sharing (ramenmusic.com)
71 points by wlll on March 3, 2011 | 15 comments
28. Custora (YC W11) Helps Businesses Battle Churn (readwriteweb.com)
62 points by pospischil on March 3, 2011 | 7 comments
29. Jwz's Tent of Doom at Netscape in 1995 (jwz.org)
62 points by mcs on March 3, 2011 | 12 comments
30. Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day (techcrunch.com)
61 points by pitdesi on March 3, 2011 | 19 comments

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