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1. GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. (chrisacky.posterous.com)
590 points by chrisacky on March 4, 2012 | 185 comments
2. "Egor, stop hacking Github" (homakov.blogspot.com)
446 points by llambda on March 4, 2012 | 111 comments
3. How github was hacked (homakov.blogspot.com)
348 points by bluemoon on March 4, 2012 | 71 comments
4. Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account? (homakov.blogspot.com)
329 points by VuongN on March 4, 2012 | 120 comments
5. Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program (inventwithpython.com)
316 points by jemeshsu on March 4, 2012 | 106 comments
6. How I built a Hacker News mobile web app (cheeaun.com)
308 points by bearwithclaws on March 4, 2012 | 56 comments
7. Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad (andrewoneverything.com)
250 points by sendos on March 4, 2012 | 132 comments
8. Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (washingtonpost.com)
241 points by Flemlord on March 4, 2012 | 215 comments
9. Facebook uses bgsound to see if you have opened an email (plus.google.com)
239 points by newman314 on March 4, 2012 | 93 comments
10. Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me. (jgc.org)
190 points by jgrahamc on March 4, 2012 | 112 comments
11. Torvalds: More bitwise tricks (plus.google.com)
183 points by SkyMarshal on March 4, 2012 | 35 comments
12. TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 (irc.gs)
178 points by JonnieCache on March 4, 2012 | 119 comments
13. Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (lesswrong.com)
160 points by astrofinch on March 4, 2012 | 13 comments
14. Toys (jsomers.net)
142 points by bootload on March 4, 2012 | 28 comments
15. Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation (github.com/blog)
134 points by yuvadam on March 4, 2012 | 34 comments
16. Airship Tails (fraser.name)
122 points by ColinWright on March 4, 2012 | 23 comments
17. How PyPy works (stackoverflow.com)
108 points by motiejus on March 4, 2012 | 3 comments
18. Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days (theatlantic.com)
105 points by krambs on March 4, 2012 | 10 comments
19. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting (stackoverflow.com)
101 points by ksetyadi on March 4, 2012 | 20 comments
20. Mezzanine, a Django powered CMS, reaches 1.0 (groups.google.com)
97 points by stephen_mcd on March 4, 2012 | 20 comments
21. SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion (sourcetreeapp.com)
96 points by DanielRibeiro on March 4, 2012 | 21 comments
22. API Design is UI for Developers (shkspr.mobi)
96 points by mmahemoff on March 4, 2012 | 27 comments
23. Rails Commit: Whitelist all attribute assignment by default (github.com/rails)
95 points by ricksta on March 4, 2012 | 28 comments
24. Advanced Google Analytics for Startups (seomoz.org)
88 points by diwank on March 4, 2012 | 8 comments
25. One man's quest to purge horrific pictures from his Google results (arstechnica.com)
87 points by morsch on March 4, 2012 | 43 comments
26. A Patient with Asthma Seeks Medical Advice in 1828, 1928, and 2012 (nejm.org)
79 points by tokenadult on March 4, 2012 | 10 comments
27. Your ideas are shit. Make them anyway. (graygenesis.com)
76 points by graygenesis on March 4, 2012 | 37 comments
28. Naveen is Leaving Foursquare (naveenium.com)
66 points by uptown on March 4, 2012 | 29 comments
29. Be Successful First Thing in the Morning (dextronet.com)
63 points by jirinovotny on March 4, 2012 | 6 comments
30. The extent of the known Universe [video] (haydenplanetarium.org)
63 points by neya on March 4, 2012 | 25 comments

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