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1. Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon (brianrue.wordpress.com)
321 points by brianr on March 9, 2012 | 119 comments
2. The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap (railstutorial.org)
271 points by mhartl on March 9, 2012 | 55 comments
3. Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users (lkml.org)
261 points by CJefferson on March 9, 2012 | 127 comments
4. Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)
257 points by webandrew on March 9, 2012 | 93 comments
5. Kara Is Self-Aware (wired.com)
247 points by ca98am79 on March 9, 2012 | 155 comments
6. A fresh new Dropbox on the web (dropbox.com)
205 points by siavosh on March 9, 2012 | 46 comments
7. Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash (thenextweb.com)
200 points by speedracr on March 9, 2012 | 119 comments
8. Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40 (newscientist.com)
177 points by fuzzix on March 9, 2012 | 76 comments
9. Blur.js: Produce psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements. (blurjs.com)
152 points by Killswitch on March 9, 2012 | 28 comments
10. IE9 pwn2owned with 0-day with exploit working back from IE6 to IE10 on Windows 8 (zdnet.com)
143 points by kefs on March 9, 2012 | 22 comments
11. Angry Birds in space (angrybirds.com)
141 points by pshken on March 9, 2012 | 39 comments
12. Google's New Cross Platform Gaming Library PlayN (developers.google.com)
133 points by EwanG on March 9, 2012 | 57 comments
13. Reddit PAC aims to kick SOPA's daddy Lamar Smith out of Congress (boingboing.net)
130 points by seminatore on March 9, 2012 | 19 comments
14. Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators (insightcommunity.com)
129 points by zotz on March 9, 2012 | 139 comments
15. GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit (extremetech.com)
124 points by ukdm on March 9, 2012 | 88 comments
16. Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app (airgramapp.com)
121 points by navneetloiwal on March 9, 2012 | 54 comments
17. Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework (whilefalse.blogspot.com)
118 points by timf on March 9, 2012 | 84 comments
18. Learning from competition (marco.org)
113 points by johns on March 9, 2012 | 48 comments
19. VC Insanity, Explained (danshapiro.com)
109 points by xyzzyrz on March 9, 2012 | 18 comments
20. LSD helps to treat alcoholism (nature.com)
109 points by gruseom on March 9, 2012 | 110 comments
21. Examples of Lisp formatting through history (kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com)
107 points by hadronzoo on March 9, 2012 | 43 comments
22. Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution (macrumors.com)
105 points by angkec on March 9, 2012 | 63 comments
23. AIDE - Java IDE for Android (play.google.com)
100 points by spazz on March 9, 2012 | 31 comments
24. The iPad Is Unbeatable (slate.com)
99 points by robjama on March 9, 2012 | 154 comments
25. Common Lisp on Heroku (groups.google.com)
91 points by fogus on March 9, 2012 | 12 comments
26. Why are companies defecting from Google Maps? (digitaltrends.com)
89 points by bdking on March 9, 2012 | 32 comments
27. I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons (skrivr.com)
84 points by 54mf on March 9, 2012 | 41 comments
28. LulzSec indictment published (scribd.com)
84 points by fpp on March 9, 2012 | 64 comments
29. Wine 1.4 (h-online.com)
83 points by Mitt on March 9, 2012 | 17 comments
30. Mika Mobile ends Android development (mikamobile.blogspot.com)
80 points by vwadhwani on March 9, 2012 | 32 comments

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