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1. Mercator Puzzle (googlecode.com)
400 points by fferen on Feb 8, 2013 | 91 comments
2. Herd Immunity Demonstration (op12no2.me)
283 points by wwkeyboard on Feb 8, 2013 | 59 comments
3. Steve Heymann Should Be Fired (tarensk.tumblr.com)
221 points by aangjie on Feb 8, 2013 | 112 comments
4. Applications open for summer 2013 YC funding (ycombinator.com)
220 points by pg on Feb 8, 2013 | 113 comments
5. Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers (jeremykun.com)
213 points by disgruntledphd2 on Feb 8, 2013 | 75 comments
6. Balancing text for better readability (adobe.com)
208 points by dave1010uk on Feb 8, 2013 | 85 comments
7. Bootstrap 2.3 Released (getbootstrap.com)
194 points by gavinballard on Feb 8, 2013 | 114 comments
8. Don Rosa: Why I Quit (donrosa.de)
183 points by Hupo on Feb 8, 2013 | 48 comments
9. Airbnb Annual (airbnb.com)
187 points by goronbjorn on Feb 8, 2013 | 52 comments
10. Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month (coinbase.com)
182 points by barmstrong on Feb 8, 2013 | 141 comments
11. TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary (torrentfreak.com)
161 points by derpenxyne on Feb 8, 2013 | 68 comments
12. Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006) (regex.info)
145 points by thewarrior on Feb 8, 2013 | 41 comments
13. Libcurl remote code execution (volema.com)
129 points by marshray on Feb 8, 2013 | 60 comments
14. Gabe Newell: Linux is a “Get-out-of-jail free pass for our industry” (geekwire.com)
124 points by randywatkins on Feb 8, 2013 | 55 comments
15. Don’t Take Medical Advice From the New York Times Magazine (slate.com)
114 points by tokenadult on Feb 8, 2013 | 121 comments
16. Ten Thousand Cents (tenthousandcents.com)
114 points by hansbo on Feb 8, 2013 | 30 comments
17. I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media (buzzscale.com)
114 points by buzzscale on Feb 8, 2013 | 36 comments
18. Facebook Connect was down (facebook.com)
113 points by arrel on Feb 8, 2013 | 54 comments
19. Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself? (slate.com)
106 points by woodhull on Feb 8, 2013 | 44 comments
20. 3D camera using WebGL (airtightinteractive.com)
108 points by neel8986 on Feb 8, 2013 | 20 comments
21. Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released (ruby-lang.org)
105 points by haven on Feb 8, 2013 | 57 comments
22. Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help (vaultausir.blogspot.com)
99 points by nathell on Feb 8, 2013 | 99 comments
23. In Defense of Copy and Paste (zacharyvoase.com)
100 points by zacharyvoase on Feb 8, 2013 | 58 comments
24. Start a timer via the url (alrt.io)
98 points by bpierre on Feb 8, 2013 | 36 comments
25. Django Unchained – Introduction to Python and Django (github.com/nahimnasser)
91 points by bokmann on Feb 8, 2013 | 23 comments
26. A mild case of borderitis (usabilitypost.com)
86 points by ovechtrick on Feb 8, 2013 | 10 comments
27. Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter? (nytimes.com)
83 points by mecredis on Feb 8, 2013 | 49 comments
28. Diary: Google Invades (lrb.co.uk)
84 points by hoverkraft on Feb 8, 2013 | 113 comments
29. Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat (kandanapp.com)
82 points by selvan on Feb 8, 2013 | 34 comments
30. Netflix's Culture Document (2009) (slideshare.net)
79 points by bcardarella on Feb 8, 2013 | 33 comments

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