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1. HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning (ycombinator.com)
445 points by pg on Feb 20, 2013 | 114 comments
2. Firefox introduces PDF viewer (blog.mozilla.org)
421 points by riledhel on Feb 20, 2013 | 194 comments
3. Dolphins Call Each Other By Name (discovery.com)
414 points by rblion on Feb 20, 2013 | 154 comments
4. I'm a shut-in. This is my story (fighttheurgetofade.com)
390 points by lastbookworm on Feb 20, 2013 | 229 comments
5. How we hacked Facebook with OAuth2 and Chrome bugs (homakov.blogspot.com)
299 points by maccman on Feb 20, 2013 | 49 comments
6. Business in a Box (squareup.com)
261 points by conorwade on Feb 20, 2013 | 129 comments
7. The StarCraft path-finding hack (codeofhonor.com)
250 points by willvarfar on Feb 20, 2013 | 85 comments
8. Google Glass - If I Had Glass (google.com)
251 points by GvS on Feb 20, 2013 | 192 comments
9. Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 (thenextweb.com)
238 points by recoiledsnake on Feb 20, 2013 | 280 comments
10. You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code (macwright.org)
219 points by cmaggard on Feb 20, 2013 | 107 comments
11. Announcing Xamarin 2.0 (xamarin.com)
217 points by petercooper on Feb 20, 2013 | 122 comments
12. 180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0 (backblaze.com)
207 points by BryantD on Feb 20, 2013 | 88 comments
13. How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams (firstround.com)
182 points by bberson on Feb 20, 2013 | 111 comments
14. 3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen (kickstarter.com)
171 points by ericabiz on Feb 20, 2013 | 40 comments
15. Google's fiber leeching caper (dodgycoder.net)
167 points by damian2000 on Feb 20, 2013 | 100 comments
16. Marissa Mayer Rolls Out a New Yahoo.com (businessweek.com)
147 points by ot on Feb 20, 2013 | 135 comments
17. The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists (theatlantic.com)
143 points by jseliger on Feb 20, 2013 | 119 comments
18. Rails Has Turned into Java (discursive.com)
136 points by urlwolf on Feb 20, 2013 | 154 comments
19. What Your Startup Culture Really Says: the toxic lies afoot in Silicon Valley (prettylittlestatemachine.com)
133 points by mllerustad on Feb 20, 2013 | 41 comments
20. Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network (estonianworld.com)
134 points by jkaljundi on Feb 20, 2013 | 66 comments
21. Ruby - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections (github.com/slivu)
133 points by slivuz on Feb 20, 2013 | 58 comments
22. How are websites making money? (slideshare.net)
131 points by lesterbuck on Feb 20, 2013 | 23 comments
23. Why Clarence Thomas Uses Simple Words in His Opinions (theatlantic.com)
113 points by duck on Feb 20, 2013 | 84 comments
24. Show HN: importd – d is for django (pythonhosted.org)
116 points by amitu on Feb 20, 2013 | 30 comments
25. How Ryan Singer from 37signals builds products (insideintercom.io)
102 points by rorhug on Feb 20, 2013 | 7 comments
26. An Interactive Analysis of Tolkien's Works (lotrproject.com)
102 points by myth_drannon on Feb 20, 2013 | 9 comments
27. The 2013 Startup (nickchirls.com)
98 points by philtoronto on Feb 20, 2013 | 26 comments
28. U.S. CEO to France: ‘How Stupid Do You Think We Are?’ (wsj.com)
89 points by kruken on Feb 20, 2013 | 119 comments
29. Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation (allthingsd.com)
75 points by ssclafani on Feb 20, 2013 | 47 comments
30. Explorations in Clojure's core.logic (jrheard.tumblr.com)
79 points by jrheard on Feb 20, 2013 | 6 comments

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