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1. Please Rob Me (pleaserobme.com)
270 points by danw on Feb 17, 2010 | 130 comments
2. 3 Tesla workers die in E. Palo Alto plane crash (sfgate.com)
125 points by pg on Feb 17, 2010 | 48 comments
3. JQuery Quicksand plugin (razorjack.net)
171 points by vijaydev on Feb 17, 2010 | 30 comments
4. ReMail (YC W09) Acquired by Google (remail.com)
151 points by Sam_Odio on Feb 17, 2010 | 51 comments
5. Ice cold decks (dealer wins no matter how the deck is cut) (benjoffe.com)
147 points by jonp on Feb 17, 2010 | 25 comments
6. Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
101 points by gruseom on Feb 17, 2010 | 49 comments
7. How a Clojure pet project turned into a full-blown cloud-computing web-app (slideshare.net)
95 points by budu on Feb 17, 2010 | 33 comments
8. Repairing a TV with a cool hack (lonelycoder.com)
93 points by Kafka on Feb 17, 2010 | 3 comments
9. $53,000 profit in 3 months--from books? Insights gained from xkcd: volume 0 (breadpig.com)
93 points by kn0thing on Feb 17, 2010 | 26 comments
10. A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services (bbc.co.uk)
92 points by bensummers on Feb 17, 2010 | 12 comments
11. Starcraft 2 Beta launches -- Kiss your free time goodbye (shacknews.com)
88 points by s3graham on Feb 17, 2010 | 61 comments
12. Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape (wired.com)
82 points by phsr on Feb 17, 2010 | 43 comments
13. Insanely deep fractal zoom (kottke.org)
78 points by geekpressrepost on Feb 17, 2010 | 23 comments
14. Space Invaders Enterprise Edition (ucsc.edu)
69 points by robin_reala on Feb 17, 2010 | 19 comments
15. Fast division by multiplication (ridiculousfish.com)
66 points by kinetik on Feb 17, 2010 | 8 comments
16. Square's On-the-Go iPhone Credit Card Scanner Will Cost $1 (readwriteweb.com)
64 points by jmonegro on Feb 17, 2010 | 43 comments
17. Martin Fowler's unscientific agglomeration of opinion on version control tools (martinfowler.com)
62 points by adam-_- on Feb 17, 2010 | 33 comments
18. Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation (techcrunch.com)
59 points by epi0Bauqu on Feb 17, 2010 | 18 comments
19. Artificial Flight and Other Myths (dresdencodak.com)
57 points by dmoney on Feb 17, 2010 | 24 comments
20. Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems. (uucsc.tumblr.com)
56 points by someplacecold on Feb 17, 2010 | 57 comments
21. SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (And What To Use Instead) (heroku.com)
56 points by conorgil145 on Feb 17, 2010 | 62 comments
22. If Version Control Systems were Airlines (complete.org)
56 points by wallflower on Feb 17, 2010 | 32 comments
23. You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof (lesswrong.com)
55 points by oozcitak on Feb 17, 2010 | 50 comments
24. Canviz: Graphiz on Canvas (ryandesign.com)
55 points by dantheman on Feb 17, 2010 | 9 comments
25. Slicehost adds more sizes, more bandwidth, and "Professional Services" (slicehost.com)
50 points by JshWright on Feb 17, 2010 | 55 comments
26. Linus Torvalds on git (video) (youtube.com)
50 points by nreece on Feb 17, 2010 | 8 comments
27. A Hidden Cost of Javascript [updated] (bueno.org)
50 points by aristus on Feb 17, 2010 | 10 comments
28. My four steps to the epiphany - Lessons learned from a research product (amirkhella.com)
47 points by amirkhella on Feb 17, 2010 | 9 comments
29. Unix-jun72: Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources (code.google.com)
47 points by vinutheraj on Feb 17, 2010 | 16 comments
30. Apple blocking Google Voice blocking webOS App (flpalmdev.blogspot.com)
46 points by davidcuddeback on Feb 17, 2010 | 16 comments

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