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31. Former CIA agent tells a horror story: Possible misuse of state secret privilege (ndtv.com)
39 points by sagarun on Feb 12, 2011 | 7 comments
32. Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released (phusion.nl)
38 points by xal on Feb 12, 2011 | 8 comments
33. The Joy of Coding
38 points by jfc on Feb 12, 2011 | 16 comments
34. A Lack Of Rigor Leaves Students 'Adrift' In College (npr.org)
38 points by rblion on Feb 12, 2011 | 13 comments
35. A SuperAngel’s Investment Guide (fabricegrinda.com)
36 points by davidw on Feb 12, 2011 | 10 comments
36. Low-cost video chat robot (hackaday.com)
36 points by ztan on Feb 12, 2011 | 25 comments
37. "Find me stuff I'm interested in" (scripting.com)
34 points by davewiner on Feb 12, 2011 | 27 comments
38. Ask HN: How do I sell my (M)MORPG?
33 points by K-Zodron on Feb 12, 2011 | 14 comments
39. Dumped on by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge is Drowning Research (chronicle.com)
33 points by grellas on Feb 12, 2011 | 22 comments
40. Poll: Why are you building a web app? (Research for my book)
34 points by spxdcz on Feb 12, 2011 | 35 comments
41. Larry Wall on religion and Perl culture (1999) (techgnosis.com)
31 points by daxelrod on Feb 12, 2011 | 61 comments
42. Stop trying to make maths "fun" - lessons also for coding? (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
31 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 12, 2011 | 33 comments
43. Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import (thenextweb.com)
29 points by barredo on Feb 12, 2011 | 20 comments
44. Google is testing a cleaner, leaner UI on Google.com (thenextweb.com)
28 points by solipsist on Feb 12, 2011 | 16 comments
45. Vacuum has friction from an effect similar to the Casimir effect (nextbigfuture.com)
27 points by cwan on Feb 12, 2011 | 12 comments
46. Chaos Computer Club hackers 'have a conscience' (bbc.co.uk)
26 points by zoowar on Feb 12, 2011 | 11 comments
47. Crysis (EA game) leak (ea.com)
26 points by ifesdjeen on Feb 12, 2011 | 24 comments
48. George Dahl: Machine Learning for March Madness (smellthedata.com)
25 points by danger on Feb 12, 2011 | 3 comments
49. Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest In Groupon Or Pandora (techcrunch.com)
25 points by sammville on Feb 12, 2011 | 4 comments
50. Oscar = Open Source Car (theoscarproject.org)
25 points by puente on Feb 12, 2011 | 12 comments
51. Wael Ghonim: A "One-Off" for Silicon Valley? (cbsnews.com)
24 points by cwb71 on Feb 12, 2011 | 20 comments
52. How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act (techcrunch.com)
24 points by sammville on Feb 12, 2011 | 17 comments
53. Box2DJS - Physics Engine for JavaScript (sourceforge.net)
23 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 12, 2011 | 4 comments
54. The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
23 points by fosk on Feb 12, 2011 | 1 comment
55. Big Picture guy is now at Atlantic with InFocus - awesome photography blog (theatlantic.com)
22 points by pitdesi on Feb 12, 2011 | 4 comments
56. UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross’ Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck (techcrunch.com)
22 points by atularora on Feb 12, 2011 | 7 comments
57. Projects for Internet Access as an Inalienable Right (theunitedpersons.org)
20 points by mazsa on Feb 12, 2011 | 12 comments
58. Ask HN: In what scenarios use of node.js can be useful?
20 points by anujkk on Feb 12, 2011 | 21 comments
59. Poll: What APIs do you consume most?
20 points by jeremyrwelch on Feb 12, 2011 | 34 comments
60. 3 New Javascript Projects: LimeJS, jQuery Isotope and jsfx (bostinnovation.com)
19 points by kmccarth on Feb 12, 2011

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