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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
		ajvargo on Feb 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Please Rob Me That's why I always tweet 'In closet, with gun' before I leave the house.
13.		Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape (wired.com)
		82 points by phsr on Feb 17, 2010 \| 43 comments
14.		Insanely deep fractal zoom (kottke.org)
		78 points by geekpressrepost on Feb 17, 2010 \| 23 comments
		axod on Feb 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: ReMail (YC W09) Acquired by Google I'm not sure shutting down a product and hiring the founder(s) should be classed as an 'acquisition'. It's just a recruitment with a golden hello really. These seem to be getting more and more common lately.
16.		Space Invaders Enterprise Edition (ucsc.edu)
		69 points by robin_reala on Feb 17, 2010 \| 19 comments
17.		Fast division by multiplication (ridiculousfish.com)
		66 points by kinetik on Feb 17, 2010 \| 8 comments
18.		Square's On-the-Go iPhone Credit Card Scanner Will Cost $1 (readwriteweb.com)
		64 points by jmonegro on Feb 17, 2010 \| 43 comments
19.		Martin Fowler's unscientific agglomeration of opinion on version control tools (martinfowler.com)
		62 points by adam-_- on Feb 17, 2010 \| 33 comments
20.		Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation (techcrunch.com)
		59 points by epi0Bauqu on Feb 17, 2010 \| 18 comments
21.		Artificial Flight and Other Myths (dresdencodak.com)
		57 points by dmoney on Feb 17, 2010 \| 24 comments
22.		Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems. (uucsc.tumblr.com)
		56 points by someplacecold on Feb 17, 2010 \| 57 comments
23.		SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (And What To Use Instead) (heroku.com)
		56 points by conorgil145 on Feb 17, 2010 \| 62 comments
24.		If Version Control Systems were Airlines (complete.org)
		56 points by wallflower on Feb 17, 2010 \| 32 comments
25.		You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof (lesswrong.com)
		55 points by oozcitak on Feb 17, 2010 \| 50 comments
26.		Canviz: Graphiz on Canvas (ryandesign.com)
		55 points by dantheman on Feb 17, 2010 \| 9 comments
		edw519 on Feb 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Please Rob Me 1. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use. 2. Widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use. 3. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves? 4. Programmers write apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use. 5. Widespread adoption of apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use. What a great time to be a programmer.
		diego on Feb 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: 3 Tesla Execs Dead In Palo Alto Plane Crash It's interesting how some people do this, yet don't give a second thought to driving together all the time.
29.		Slicehost adds more sizes, more bandwidth, and "Professional Services" (slicehost.com)
		50 points by JshWright on Feb 17, 2010 \| 55 comments
30.		Linus Torvalds on git (video) (youtube.com)
		50 points by nreece on Feb 17, 2010 \| 8 comments
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