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1. How Not To Sell Software in 2012 (al3x.net)
466 points by nreece on Feb 29, 2012 | 139 comments
2. TSA: Fail (gmancasefile.blogspot.in)
452 points by vamsee on Feb 29, 2012 | 116 comments
3. Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar (easydns.org)
387 points by StuntPope on Feb 29, 2012 | 147 comments
4. Windows 8 Consumer Preview released. (microsoft.com)
265 points by klausa on Feb 29, 2012 | 200 comments
5. Standing invitation: if you want to talk software, I want to talk to you (kalzumeus.com)
222 points by karterk on Feb 29, 2012 | 21 comments
6. How To Be Happy Anywhere (fastcompany.com)
211 points by superasn on Feb 29, 2012 | 100 comments
7. Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers (gamespot.com)
199 points by joshes on Feb 29, 2012 | 121 comments
8. Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase (zachholman.com)
187 points by nephics on Feb 29, 2012 | 32 comments
9. Justin Kan Launches Exec (YC W12) For Real-Time Mobile Jobs (forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron)
186 points by pg on Feb 29, 2012 | 70 comments
10. Collection of Richard Feynman talks on the scientific method, learning, and CS (chill.com)
190 points by skotzko on Feb 29, 2012 | 20 comments
11. Insurgent Games Makes All Games Free, Releases Everything as Open Source (insurgentgames.com)
179 points by sequoia on Feb 29, 2012 | 56 comments
12. How I got a job from a Hacker News post (bostinno.com)
179 points by kmccarth on Feb 29, 2012 | 21 comments
13. Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang (debian.net)
175 points by yungchin on Feb 29, 2012 | 54 comments
14. CoffeePhysics: A JS/CS Physics Engine (soulwire.co.uk)
174 points by jashkenas on Feb 29, 2012 | 50 comments
15. Pretty Lisp (pretty-lisp.org)
170 points by fogus on Feb 29, 2012 | 112 comments
16. Like Instapaper, but for Developers (thequeue.org)
161 points by mmackh on Feb 29, 2012 | 48 comments
17. Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours (theregister.co.uk)
151 points by pshken on Feb 29, 2012 | 56 comments
18. Linode: Native IPv6 now available in all locations (linode.com)
148 points by timewasted on Feb 29, 2012 | 7 comments
19. How Apple's Top Secret Product Development Process Works (thenextweb.com)
148 points by FluidDjango on Feb 29, 2012 | 33 comments
20. Make your website fast. (And why you should). (scirra.com)
146 points by TomGullen on Feb 29, 2012 | 67 comments
21. How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit (daniellemorrill.com)
136 points by dmor on Feb 29, 2012 | 27 comments
22. Clojure Implemented in Pure Python (github.com/halgari)
122 points by gdw2 on Feb 29, 2012 | 53 comments
23. The House Y Combinator Should Have Built (hellobubs.com)
114 points by dariusmonsef on Feb 29, 2012 | 72 comments
24. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language (julialang.org)
92 points by bmcniel on Feb 29, 2012 | 19 comments
25. Chrome Now Officially Lets You Open All Email Links In Gmail (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
82 points by dotpot on Feb 29, 2012 | 31 comments
26. In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop (speculist.com)
79 points by PixelRobot on Feb 29, 2012 | 64 comments
27. Free-to-play Microsoft Flight released (geek.com)
78 points by ukdm on Feb 29, 2012 | 21 comments
28. Python 2.7 now fully supported on AppEngine (googleappengine.blogspot.in)
76 points by rplnt on Feb 29, 2012 | 7 comments
29. Foursquare is joining the OpenStreetMap movement (foursquare.com)
90 points by state_machine on Feb 29, 2012 | 10 comments
30. About 6.002x (mitx.mit.edu)
72 points by ilamont on Feb 29, 2012 | 18 comments

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