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1. Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony. (geohot.com)
336 points by elliottcarlson on Feb 20, 2011 | 82 comments
2. Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore (arstechnica.com)
185 points by zdw on Feb 20, 2011 | 141 comments
3. Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar (conceivablytech.com)
160 points by wiks on Feb 20, 2011 | 124 comments
4. Ask HN: Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?
156 points by bdclimber14 on Feb 20, 2011 | 122 comments
5. Libya Shuts Down Internet (readwriteweb.com)
152 points by pitdesi on Feb 20, 2011 | 84 comments
6. Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why? (techcrunch.com)
142 points by cwan on Feb 20, 2011 | 137 comments
7. Website Layouts (designshack.co.uk)
141 points by emilepetrone on Feb 20, 2011 | 10 comments
8. I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp (groups.google.com)
134 points by gnosis on Feb 20, 2011 | 114 comments
9. Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price (wired.com)
133 points by gsivil on Feb 20, 2011 | 108 comments
10. At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life - and death (twincities.com)
124 points by michaelfairley on Feb 20, 2011 | 77 comments
11. Visualizing dynamic programming (ezyang.com)
116 points by j_baker on Feb 20, 2011 | 11 comments
12. Hash tables with O(1) worst-case lookup and space efficiency [pdf] (ru.is)
118 points by tianyicui on Feb 20, 2011 | 43 comments
13. Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow?
107 points by bouncingsoul on Feb 20, 2011 | 79 comments
14. Born This Way (techcrunch.com)
95 points by OoTheNigerian on Feb 20, 2011 | 69 comments
15. Google C++ Style Guide (googlecode.com)
96 points by olalonde on Feb 20, 2011 | 39 comments
16. Chicken Scheme looks mighty fine (unl.edu)
92 points by gnosis on Feb 20, 2011 | 15 comments
17. Riseup (riseup.net)
92 points by zoowar on Feb 20, 2011 | 28 comments
18. Rabbits v. Tigers (lrb.co.uk)
88 points by ph0rque on Feb 20, 2011 | 8 comments
19. The real HTML5 boilerplate (csswizardry.com)
84 points by chaosmachine on Feb 20, 2011 | 30 comments
20. Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today (fasterdev.com)
79 points by mootothemax on Feb 20, 2011 | 44 comments
21. Deploy Websites on Amazon S3 using Jekyll and Git (openfoo.org)
78 points by soren on Feb 20, 2011 | 17 comments
22. Lisp vs Python (amitp.blogspot.com)
76 points by gnosis on Feb 20, 2011 | 89 comments
23. Programmer as Market (whattofix.com)
74 points by DanielBMarkham on Feb 20, 2011 | 15 comments
24. Tornado 1.2 (groups.google.com)
69 points by rschildmeijer on Feb 20, 2011 | 36 comments
25. Python's Mutable Default Problem (objectmentor.com)
68 points by tswicegood on Feb 20, 2011 | 62 comments
26. Nearly All US Universities Lose Money on Sports (go.com)
67 points by ojbyrne on Feb 20, 2011 | 70 comments
27. Verizon iPhone selling mostly to existing iPhone owners? (marco.org)
65 points by ronnier on Feb 20, 2011 | 45 comments
28. Google is a surveillance company (securitytube.net)
63 points by boh on Feb 20, 2011 | 28 comments
29. The 1972 Chouinard Catalog that changed a business – and climbing – forever (37signals.com)
63 points by wglb on Feb 20, 2011 | 11 comments
30. An Interactive Voice Response System for $0.00 in 10 Minutes (asymmetrical-view.com)
61 points by kyleburton on Feb 20, 2011 | 13 comments

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