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1. Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters (robohub.org)
619 points by eguizzo on Feb 21, 2013 | 133 comments
2. The Chromebook Pixel (chrome.blogspot.com)
475 points by mikeevans on Feb 21, 2013 | 487 comments
3. The Truth about a Failing Startup (pastebin.com)
458 points by throwawayrandom on Feb 21, 2013 | 156 comments
4. Sony Pirates KDE Artwork (kde.org)
434 points by k-i-m on Feb 21, 2013 | 160 comments
5. Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures (thenextweb.com)
332 points by Lightning on Feb 21, 2013 | 165 comments
6. How To Make a Quick Buck (jacquesmattheij.com)
314 points by freshfey on Feb 21, 2013 | 87 comments
7. LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless (privco.com)
314 points by donohoe on Feb 21, 2013 | 224 comments
8. Google has killed Android (the brand) (fabcapo.com)
271 points by muratmutlu on Feb 21, 2013 | 110 comments
9. The Play Framework at LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
219 points by fatiherikli on Feb 21, 2013 | 186 comments
10. Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures (upgrd.com)
203 points by chmars on Feb 21, 2013 | 237 comments
11. Google is working on creating a new protocol named QUIC to replace UDP (plus.google.com)
192 points by patrickaljord on Feb 21, 2013 | 112 comments
12. Panoramic, high resolution picture of London (btlondon2012.co.uk)
162 points by danielhunt on Feb 21, 2013 | 99 comments
13. Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year? (bloomberg.com)
152 points by lisper on Feb 21, 2013 | 120 comments
14. Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming? (spotify.com)
151 points by whaevr on Feb 21, 2013 | 150 comments
15. Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen (techcrunch.com)
145 points by aaronbrethorst on Feb 21, 2013 | 154 comments
16. Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks (balancedpayments.com)
141 points by mahmoudimus on Feb 21, 2013 | 68 comments
17. Highcharts 3.0 Beta released (highcharts.com)
133 points by afshinmeh on Feb 21, 2013 | 67 comments
18. When to Sell Your Company (medium.com/on-startups)
131 points by fraqed on Feb 21, 2013 | 16 comments
19. Show HN: Like The Onion, But Real (theon1on.com)
127 points by slifty on Feb 21, 2013 | 90 comments
20. Stack Exchange’s Colocation Move: Lessons Learned (serverfault.com)
126 points by revorad on Feb 21, 2013 | 41 comments
21. I'm Betting on Elon (danielodio.com)
124 points by drodio on Feb 21, 2013 | 123 comments
22. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (time.com)
124 points by arbuge on Feb 21, 2013 | 138 comments
23. The Saddest Map In America (andrewsullivan.com)
121 points by dkuebric on Feb 21, 2013 | 98 comments
24. Tell HN: You guys scared edw519 off Hacker News
120 points by Xcelerate on Feb 21, 2013 | 50 comments
25. NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware (hitmanpro.wordpress.com)
108 points by anateus on Feb 21, 2013 | 32 comments
26. What really happened at LivingSocial? (cnn.com)
102 points by speric on Feb 21, 2013 | 131 comments
27. Timelike 2: everything fails all the time (aphyr.com)
99 points by krg on Feb 21, 2013 | 26 comments
28. TCMalloc and MySQL (github.com/blog)
94 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 21, 2013 | 30 comments
29. Show HN: Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock (rpsls.ws)
93 points by mayop100 on Feb 21, 2013 | 35 comments
30. MIDI.js - Sequencing in Javascript (mudcu.be)
87 points by GuiA on Feb 21, 2013 | 25 comments

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