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Top of Month - Feb 2010

1. Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
   (12 Feb 2010 | 549 points | Comments)

2. A Big Case of Oops
   (26 Feb 2010 | 395 points | Comments)

3. HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app
   (6 Feb 2010 | 378 points | Comments)

4. Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
   (4 Feb 2010 | 342 points | Comments)

5. I want privacy because I break the law
   (1 Feb 2010 | 320 points | Comments)

6. Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants
   (24 Feb 2010 | 318 points | Comments)

7. Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source
   (2 Feb 2010 | 315 points | Comments)

8. Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky
   (24 Feb 2010 | 296 points | Comments)

9. Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men
   (19 Feb 2010 | 294 points | Comments)

10. The hell that is a restaurant website
    (17 Feb 2010 | 292 points | Comments)

11. GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission
    (24 Feb 2010 | 288 points | Comments)

12. Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping
    (23 Feb 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

13. Serious threat to the web in Italy
    (24 Feb 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

14. School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
    (18 Feb 2010 | 275 points | Comments)

15. Please Rob Me
    (17 Feb 2010 | 270 points | Comments)

16. "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
    (25 Feb 2010 | 270 points | Comments)

17. Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
    (10 Feb 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

18. If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
    (9 Feb 2010 | 265 points | Comments)

19. Things I've learned at Google so far
    (1 Feb 2010 | 264 points | Comments)

20. AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."
    (7 Feb 2010 | 259 points | Comments)

21. Ask YC/HN Archive
    (15 Feb 2010 | 254 points | Comments)

22. I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.
    (20 Feb 2010 | 251 points | Comments)

23. How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter
    (7 Feb 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

24. WTFJS?
    (12 Feb 2010 | 237 points | Comments)

25. Life Below 600px
    (2 Feb 2010 | 232 points | Comments)

26. Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
    (12 Feb 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

27. Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act
    (24 Feb 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

28. Business School is a Joke
    (14 Feb 2010 | 223 points | Comments)

29. How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998)
    (19 Feb 2010 | 223 points | Comments)

30. No, you can't do that with H.264
    (3 Feb 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

31. Achievement Porn
    (27 Feb 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

32. No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
    (12 Feb 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

33. There are good reasons for saying hello.
    (22 Feb 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

34. Stuff
    (14 Feb 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

35. Perfect example of real-life hacking
    (26 Feb 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

36. Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
    (24 Feb 2010 | 202 points | Comments)

37. Ouch
    (5 Feb 2010 | 199 points | Comments)

38. Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, first interview since 1989
    (1 Feb 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

39. Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building
    (18 Feb 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

40. Chatroulette Creator Is A 17-Year-Old Russian Kid
    (13 Feb 2010 | 193 points | Comments)

41. Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST
    (9 Feb 2010 | 192 points | Comments)

42. Tumblr Stole My [Subdomain] At The Behest of A Corporation
    (16 Feb 2010 | 190 points | Comments)

43. What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
    (3 Feb 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

44. Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
    (11 Feb 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

45. PostgreSQL 9.0 - Hot Standby, Streaming Replication
    (2 Feb 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

46. All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
    (16 Feb 2010 | 180 points | Comments)

47. -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
    (10 Feb 2010 | 179 points | Comments)

48. Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures hides lawsuits via 1000+ shell companies
    (18 Feb 2010 | 179 points | Comments)

49. Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
    (6 Feb 2010 | 178 points | Comments)

50. Stop Piping Cats
    (10 Feb 2010 | 178 points | Comments)

51. MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV
    (6 Feb 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

52. Google Buzz
    (9 Feb 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

53. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
    (3 Feb 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

54. JQuery Quicksand plugin
    (17 Feb 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

55. The Spy at Harriton High
    (22 Feb 2010 | 166 points | Comments)

56. It's not bad to leave your laptop plugged in
    (26 Feb 2010 | 166 points | Comments)

57. The Story the New York Times Won't Touch
    (20 Feb 2010 | 165 points | Comments)

58. Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
    (3 Feb 2010 | 164 points | Comments)

59. Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games
    (22 Feb 2010 | 159 points | Comments)

60. The $5 Guerrilla User Test
    (12 Feb 2010 | 158 points | Comments)

61. Jason Calacanis Knows He's Spamming Google, He Just Thinks It's No Big Deal
    (22 Feb 2010 | 157 points | Comments)

62. "Don't you dare waste your fucking time"
    (9 Feb 2010 | 156 points | Comments)

63. Talking to God
    (13 Feb 2010 | 156 points | Comments)

64. Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
    (18 Feb 2010 | 156 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?
    (3 Feb 2010 | 152 points | Comments)

66. Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off
    (10 Feb 2010 | 152 points | Comments)

67. Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery
    (10 Feb 2010 | 151 points | Comments)

68. ReMail (YC W09) Acquired by Google
    (17 Feb 2010 | 151 points | Comments)

69. If your bank doesn’t like your startup’s blog, they may freeze your funds
    (25 Feb 2010 | 151 points | Comments)

70. Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
    (23 Feb 2010 | 150 points | Comments)

71. Ice cold decks (dealer wins no matter how the deck is cut)
    (17 Feb 2010 | 147 points | Comments)

72. A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular.
    (8 Feb 2010 | 146 points | Comments)

73. 3 Tesla Execs Dead In Palo Alto Plane Crash
    (17 Feb 2010 | 145 points | Comments)

74. Check Out What Happened When I Unsubscribed From Groupon’s Email
    (19 Feb 2010 | 143 points | Comments)

75. Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
    (11 Feb 2010 | 142 points | Comments)

76. Raising money for StackOverflow
    (15 Feb 2010 | 142 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: improving your design skills?
    (5 Feb 2010 | 140 points | Comments)

78. Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3
    (18 Feb 2010 | 140 points | Comments)

79. Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube
    (19 Feb 2010 | 139 points | Comments)

80. LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts
    (5 Feb 2010 | 138 points | Comments)

81. IPad Colocation
    (23 Feb 2010 | 138 points | Comments)

82. Never short a country with $2 trillion in reserves?
    (2 Feb 2010 | 137 points | Comments)

83. The gunfighter's dilemma
    (3 Feb 2010 | 135 points | Comments)

84. Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections
    (26 Feb 2010 | 135 points | Comments)

85. XHP: A New Way to Write PHP (from Facebook)
    (10 Feb 2010 | 134 points | Comments)

86. Son-of-a-bitch, it worked. My first step down the customer development path…
    (11 Feb 2010 | 134 points | Comments)

87. Disabling Google Buzz: How to purge your profile
    (12 Feb 2010 | 134 points | Comments)

88. The Non-Programming Programmer
    (22 Feb 2010 | 134 points | Comments)

89. The social graph of the whole US
    (6 Feb 2010 | 133 points | Comments)

90. "Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger
    (23 Feb 2010 | 132 points | Comments)

91. Readability
    (26 Feb 2010 | 132 points | Comments)

92. I made $622,322.96 in 2009 from affiliate marketing.
    (8 Feb 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

93. To hell with web standards
    (12 Feb 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

94. Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
    (22 Feb 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
    (5 Feb 2010 | 129 points | Comments)

96. Analysis of Processor Cache Effects
    (2 Feb 2010 | 128 points | Comments)

97. I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
    (8 Feb 2010 | 128 points | Comments)

98. How old were you when you decided to start giving up?
    (10 Feb 2010 | 128 points | Comments)

99. WhoseTube?
    (20 Feb 2010 | 128 points | Comments)

100. U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, with deadly consequences
     (21 Feb 2010 | 128 points | Comments)