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Top of Month - Feb 2011

1. Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
   (1 Feb 2011 | 704 points | Comments)

2. Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
   (1 Feb 2011 | 684 points | Comments)

3. Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
   (21 Feb 2011 | 596 points | Comments)

4. How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
   (11 Feb 2011 | 589 points | Comments)

5. Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
   (28 Feb 2011 | 569 points | Comments)

6. Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
   (27 Feb 2011 | 543 points | Comments)

7. "You've angered the hive"
   (7 Feb 2011 | 521 points | Comments)

8. Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
   (9 Feb 2011 | 513 points | Comments)

9. Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
   (1 Feb 2011 | 511 points | Comments)

10. New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
    (14 Feb 2011 | 508 points | Comments)

11. Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
    (2 Feb 2011 | 490 points | Comments)

12. I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks
    (16 Feb 2011 | 490 points | Comments)

13. How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
    (15 Feb 2011 | 488 points | Comments)

14. I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
    (3 Feb 2011 | 485 points | Comments)

15. An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection
    (21 Feb 2011 | 478 points | Comments)

16. Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
    (13 Feb 2011 | 476 points | Comments)

17. Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
    (15 Feb 2011 | 460 points | Comments)

18. Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
    (7 Feb 2011 | 459 points | Comments)

19. Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
    (18 Feb 2011 | 449 points | Comments)

20. How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
    (10 Feb 2011 | 432 points | Comments)

21. Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light
    (21 Feb 2011 | 431 points | Comments)

22. Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
    (14 Feb 2011 | 430 points | Comments)

23. U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
    (16 Feb 2011 | 430 points | Comments)

24. Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows
    (17 Feb 2011 | 426 points | Comments)

25. Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
    (4 Feb 2011 | 418 points | Comments)

26. Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine
    (28 Feb 2011 | 410 points | Comments)

27. Solving The Hacker News Problem
    (22 Feb 2011 | 407 points | Comments)

28. The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2
    (21 Feb 2011 | 401 points | Comments)

29. HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
    (13 Feb 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

30. Is IE9 a modern browser?
    (15 Feb 2011 | 378 points | Comments)

31. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
    (23 Feb 2011 | 377 points | Comments)

32. Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python
    (24 Feb 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

33. This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail
    (27 Feb 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

34. Nissan Leaf
    (18 Feb 2011 | 352 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: HackerBooks.com
    (22 Feb 2011 | 351 points | Comments)

36. Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
    (16 Feb 2011 | 345 points | Comments)

37. Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
    (1 Feb 2011 | 339 points | Comments)

38. This may be the best resume I have ever seen
    (5 Feb 2011 | 339 points | Comments)

39. Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony.
    (20 Feb 2011 | 336 points | Comments)

40. Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
    (1 Feb 2011 | 334 points | Comments)

41. Hosni Mubarak finally steps down
    (11 Feb 2011 | 332 points | Comments)

42. Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW
    (24 Feb 2011 | 332 points | Comments)

43. Ditch Starbucks and work at the library
    (8 Feb 2011 | 330 points | Comments)

44. Random Startup Generator
    (8 Feb 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

45. The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software)
    (17 Feb 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable
    (3 Feb 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

47. Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)
    (2 Feb 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

48. Thunderbolt
    (24 Feb 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

49. You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)
    (25 Feb 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

50. Nokia Plan B
    (14 Feb 2011 | 317 points | Comments)

51. Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
    (18 Feb 2011 | 315 points | Comments)

52. Broken Links
    (10 Feb 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

53. The 4-Hour Dentist
    (2 Feb 2011 | 300 points | Comments)

54. Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
    (8 Feb 2011 | 298 points | Comments)

55. E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.
    (4 Feb 2011 | 296 points | Comments)

56. Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
    (23 Feb 2011 | 296 points | Comments)

57. Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
    (3 Feb 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

58. Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
    (9 Feb 2011 | 288 points | Comments)

59. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.
    (15 Feb 2011 | 288 points | Comments)

60. Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding
    (28 Feb 2011 | 288 points | Comments)

61. Breaking the web with hash-bangs
    (9 Feb 2011 | 287 points | Comments)

62. How to become Batman
    (18 Feb 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

63. Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
    (22 Feb 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

64. Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
    (25 Feb 2011 | 283 points | Comments)

65. Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown)
    (12 Feb 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

66. Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?
    (26 Feb 2011 | 280 points | Comments)

67. HN now serving a million page views on weekdays
    (9 Feb 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

68. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0
    (11 Feb 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

69. How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010
    (8 Feb 2011 | 276 points | Comments)

70. New MacBook Pro series
    (24 Feb 2011 | 276 points | Comments)

71. The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
    (14 Feb 2011 | 275 points | Comments)

72. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson
    (16 Feb 2011 | 274 points | Comments)

73. Free, Public Data Sets
    (1 Feb 2011 | 273 points | Comments)

74. Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?
    (27 Feb 2011 | 272 points | Comments)

75. Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone
    (17 Feb 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

76. The Colour Clock
    (25 Feb 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

77. RStudio,a new IDE for R
    (28 Feb 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

78. Goodbye to academic research
    (18 Feb 2011 | 270 points | Comments)

79. Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US
    (18 Feb 2011 | 267 points | Comments)

80. Show HN: Breakup Notifier
    (21 Feb 2011 | 264 points | Comments)

81. How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night
    (15 Feb 2011 | 263 points | Comments)

82. What happens after Yahoo acquires you
    (22 Feb 2011 | 263 points | Comments)

83. When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
    (28 Feb 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

84. How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps
    (28 Feb 2011 | 261 points | Comments)

85. The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
    (7 Feb 2011 | 259 points | Comments)

86. White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws
    (12 Feb 2011 | 259 points | Comments)

87. Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero
    (21 Feb 2011 | 256 points | Comments)

88. Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid
    (2 Feb 2011 | 254 points | Comments)

89. Real Life Model of M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall”
    (18 Feb 2011 | 254 points | Comments)

90. 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
    (11 Feb 2011 | 252 points | Comments)

91. Airplane Mode
    (7 Feb 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

92. Mubarak to step down tonight
    (10 Feb 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

93. Stuxnet is now on GitHub
    (13 Feb 2011 | 248 points | Comments)

94. IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
    (14 Feb 2011 | 245 points | Comments)

95. What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
    (28 Feb 2011 | 244 points | Comments)

96. Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet
    (9 Feb 2011 | 243 points | Comments)

97. IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries
    (3 Feb 2011 | 241 points | Comments)

98. The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky Way Galaxy
    (6 Feb 2011 | 240 points | Comments)

99. The Next Six Months
    (9 Feb 2011 | 239 points | Comments)

100. The Cognitive Style of Unix
     (17 Feb 2011 | 239 points | Comments)