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1. U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ (torrentfreak.com)
430 points by Uncle_Sam on Feb 16, 2011 | 152 comments
2. Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack (arstechnica.com)
345 points by abraham on Feb 16, 2011 | 83 comments
3. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson (washingtonpost.com)
274 points by acangiano on Feb 16, 2011 | 84 comments
4. Why are you people defending Apple? (techcrunch.com)
233 points by Andrex on Feb 16, 2011 | 209 comments
5. The Technology Behind Convore (eflorenzano.com)
220 points by conesus on Feb 16, 2011 | 36 comments
6. Reminder: "Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever" (jamesgolick.com)
169 points by abhay on Feb 16, 2011 | 34 comments
7. Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers (googleblog.blogspot.com)
157 points by wigginus on Feb 16, 2011 | 78 comments
8. IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas) (people.mozilla.com)
144 points by tomeast on Feb 16, 2011 | 86 comments
9. Apple’s Three Laws of Developers (yourhead.tumblr.com)
139 points by berberich on Feb 16, 2011 | 47 comments
10. Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps. (wildeboer.net)
131 points by mikecane on Feb 16, 2011 | 131 comments
11. 787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing (latimes.com)
129 points by pointillistic on Feb 16, 2011 | 95 comments
12. Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review (experts-exchange.com)
126 points by dolphenstein on Feb 16, 2011 | 135 comments
13. A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost (williamhilsum.com)
121 points by sathyabhat on Feb 16, 2011 | 49 comments
14. Taskforce (YC W11) Helps You Organize Your Inbox and Become a Taskmaster (techcrunch.com)
110 points by niccolop on Feb 16, 2011 | 51 comments
15. C Language Resources (mycplus.com)
105 points by RBerenguel on Feb 16, 2011 | 18 comments
16. Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven Mrgan (mrgan.tumblr.com)
103 points by davidcann on Feb 16, 2011 | 19 comments
17. What if Hudson loses its plugins? (java.net)
101 points by tomeast on Feb 16, 2011 | 26 comments
18. Yuri Milner pays $150k Y Combinator investments by ‘making it rain’ (founderdaily.com)
96 points by rriepe on Feb 16, 2011 | 19 comments
19. Urban sql injection (seanbonner.tumblr.com)
94 points by freedrull on Feb 16, 2011 | 17 comments
20. Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' (yahoo.com)
88 points by mjfern on Feb 16, 2011 | 122 comments
21. Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You (nytimes.com)
87 points by davewiner on Feb 16, 2011 | 22 comments
22. Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net). (tumblr.com)
87 points by hughesdan on Feb 16, 2011 | 130 comments
23. Nokia Plan B fails after only 36 hours (nokiaplanb.com)
89 points by nyellin on Feb 16, 2011 | 35 comments
24. Facebook pages are worthless for your startup. Go where the early adopters are. (thestartupfoundry.com)
86 points by g0atbutt on Feb 16, 2011 | 21 comments
25. Apple is actually asking for 100% of SaaS mobile revenue (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
83 points by bdfh42 on Feb 16, 2011 | 106 comments
26. World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10) (xconomy.com)
83 points by waderoush on Feb 16, 2011 | 33 comments
27. Guile 2.0 is out (gmane.org)
81 points by vu3rdd on Feb 16, 2011 | 42 comments
28. NokiaPlanB was a hoax (engadget.com)
78 points by lid on Feb 16, 2011 | 25 comments
29. Ask HN: I need advice. Major problems with my business & co-founder
77 points by helpmehnkenobi on Feb 16, 2011 | 36 comments
30. Are Silicon Valley’s Engineers Underpaid? (fastcompany.com)
75 points by mjfern on Feb 16, 2011 | 115 comments

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