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Stories from February 24, 2010
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1. Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky (hginit.com)
296 points by Tichy on Feb 24, 2010 | 71 comments
2. GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission (sucuri.net)
288 points by sucuri2 on Feb 24, 2010 | 119 comments
3. Serious threat to the web in Italy (googleblog.blogspot.com)
282 points by alexandros on Feb 24, 2010 | 141 comments
4. Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act (startupvisa.com)
226 points by icey on Feb 24, 2010 | 215 comments
5. Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (corante.com)
202 points by timr on Feb 24, 2010 | 50 comments
6. Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box (mashable.com)
103 points by bigsassy on Feb 24, 2010 | 58 comments
7. The Fallacy of Gray (lesswrong.com)
97 points by jonp on Feb 24, 2010 | 27 comments
8. Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989) (tufts.edu)
97 points by nkurz on Feb 24, 2010 | 32 comments
9. Use open source? Then you're a pirate (computerworlduk.com)
91 points by dreemteem on Feb 24, 2010 | 42 comments
10. Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme” (techcrunch.com)
90 points by apowell on Feb 24, 2010 | 52 comments
11. Help find missing kids by putting them on your 404 page (bluesmoon.info)
81 points by bluesmoon on Feb 24, 2010 | 33 comments
12. Nikola Tesla's letterhead circa 1900 (letterheady.com)
79 points by MikeCapone on Feb 24, 2010 | 20 comments
13. Tired of Old Man Python telling you what you can and can't say to your computer? (staringispolite.com)
75 points by mapleoin on Feb 24, 2010 | 15 comments
14. How Corrupted Language Moved from Campus to the Real World (mindingthecampus.com)
69 points by cwan on Feb 24, 2010 | 7 comments
15. @ycombinator (ycombinator.posterous.com)
64 points by Harj on Feb 24, 2010 | 22 comments
16. Triumph of the Cyborg Composer (miller-mccune.com)
59 points by lief79 on Feb 24, 2010 | 13 comments
17. Parallel programming is hard. Right? (lbrandy.com)
59 points by lbrandy on Feb 24, 2010 | 33 comments
18. Site Leaks Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide, MS Demands Takedown Under DMCA (geekosystem.com)
56 points by umiaq on Feb 24, 2010 | 21 comments
19. Al-Mabhouh Assassination (schneier.com)
53 points by niyazpk on Feb 24, 2010 | 4 comments
20. Things your lawyer won't tell you (openforum.com)
50 points by y2002 on Feb 24, 2010 | 30 comments
21. Standard Interface (standardinterface.org)
49 points by nreece on Feb 24, 2010 | 13 comments
22. Italian Court Convicts 3 Google Execs of Violating Privacy (nytimes.com)
47 points by frisco on Feb 24, 2010 | 32 comments
23. Oakland Cafe Owner's Banning Laptop Experiment (actualcafe.blogspot.com)
43 points by drewsing on Feb 24, 2010 | 32 comments
24. Despite Tough Talk, Google Still Censoring in China (readwriteweb.com)
37 points by KWD on Feb 24, 2010 | 1 comment
25. Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google (books.google.com)
36 points by shrikant on Feb 24, 2010 | 10 comments
26. How my site disappeared from Google search (jasonmorrison.net)
36 points by dannyr on Feb 24, 2010 | 5 comments
27. New Steam beta replaces Trident/IE with WebKit (steampowered.com)
34 points by eswat on Feb 24, 2010 | 35 comments
28. Search Engine for Hackers (shodanhq.com)
33 points by achillean on Feb 24, 2010 | 16 comments
29. Passive Income: Subscription model business or bust. (spencerfry.com)
35 points by maxstoller on Feb 24, 2010 | 13 comments
30. 200 years after his birth, Chopin remains a key composer (post-gazette.com)
32 points by edw519 on Feb 24, 2010 | 19 comments

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