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Top of Month - Feb 2012

1. Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
   (13 Feb 2012 | 1319 points | Comments)

2. Farewell Stack Exchange
   (6 Feb 2012 | 1233 points | Comments)

3. Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
   (18 Feb 2012 | 928 points | Comments)

4. Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
   (7 Feb 2012 | 834 points | Comments)

5. 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
   (15 Feb 2012 | 797 points | Comments)

6. Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
   (1 Feb 2012 | 773 points | Comments)

7. Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
   (3 Feb 2012 | 699 points | Comments)

8. Ubuntu for Android
   (21 Feb 2012 | 698 points | Comments)

9. ASCII interactive fluid animation
   (8 Feb 2012 | 663 points | Comments)

10. Handwriting to LaTeX maths
    (2 Feb 2012 | 652 points | Comments)

11. Producer vs. Consumer
    (5 Feb 2012 | 647 points | Comments)

12. Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
    (16 Feb 2012 | 646 points | Comments)

13. TV is broken
    (24 Feb 2012 | 635 points | Comments)

14. I have a bad feeling about this
    (9 Feb 2012 | 629 points | Comments)

15. The myth of the eight-hour sleep
    (22 Feb 2012 | 607 points | Comments)

16. Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content
    (16 Feb 2012 | 605 points | Comments)

17. Teller Reveals His Secrets
    (25 Feb 2012 | 602 points | Comments)

18. Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
    (13 Feb 2012 | 593 points | Comments)

19. Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever
    (14 Feb 2012 | 593 points | Comments)

20. Right versus pragmatic
    (25 Feb 2012 | 568 points | Comments)

21. What I've Learned About Smart People.
    (12 Feb 2012 | 552 points | Comments)

22. Raspberri PI Release Announcement
    (29 Feb 2012 | 543 points | Comments)

23. "It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
    (22 Feb 2012 | 542 points | Comments)

24. Online Python Tutor
    (19 Feb 2012 | 538 points | Comments)

25. We are sorry
    (8 Feb 2012 | 533 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
    (14 Feb 2012 | 532 points | Comments)

27. Did You Hear We Got Osama?
    (17 Feb 2012 | 524 points | Comments)

28. US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination
    (24 Feb 2012 | 518 points | Comments)

29. Hacking Hacker News
    (17 Feb 2012 | 503 points | Comments)

30. Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
    (18 Feb 2012 | 499 points | Comments)

31. Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button
    (27 Feb 2012 | 477 points | Comments)

32. Introducing Chrome for Android
    (7 Feb 2012 | 476 points | Comments)

33. Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
    (28 Feb 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

34. How Not To Sell Software in 2012
    (29 Feb 2012 | 466 points | Comments)

35. Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
    (16 Feb 2012 | 465 points | Comments)

36. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
    (17 Feb 2012 | 465 points | Comments)

37. Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
    (13 Feb 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

38. EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
    (22 Feb 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

39. Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
    (16 Feb 2012 | 456 points | Comments)

40. “What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?”
    (24 Feb 2012 | 452 points | Comments)

41. TSA: Fail
    (29 Feb 2012 | 452 points | Comments)

42. The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (1991)
    (23 Feb 2012 | 438 points | Comments)

43. All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately
    (16 Feb 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

44. Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
    (1 Feb 2012 | 431 points | Comments)

45. How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
    (17 Feb 2012 | 428 points | Comments)

46. SSH tricks
    (2 Feb 2012 | 425 points | Comments)

47. Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
    (9 Feb 2012 | 424 points | Comments)

48. How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
    (21 Feb 2012 | 424 points | Comments)

49. Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
    (16 Feb 2012 | 419 points | Comments)

50. Facebook's S-1 Filing
    (1 Feb 2012 | 413 points | Comments)

51. MusicForProgramming();
    (3 Feb 2012 | 411 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Github for Designers
    (9 Feb 2012 | 409 points | Comments)

53. Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
    (15 Feb 2012 | 407 points | Comments)

54. Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You
    (28 Feb 2012 | 407 points | Comments)

55. The Tesla Valve: One Way Flow With No Moving Parts
    (4 Feb 2012 | 405 points | Comments)

56. WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor
    (27 Feb 2012 | 405 points | Comments)

57. Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
    (1 Feb 2012 | 402 points | Comments)

58. Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol
    (10 Feb 2012 | 399 points | Comments)

59. Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
    (22 Feb 2012 | 399 points | Comments)

60. Balsamiq integrates with UX.StackExchange.com
    (27 Feb 2012 | 395 points | Comments)

61. Reddit takes a new direction
    (13 Feb 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

62. Why Python is Important for You
    (11 Feb 2012 | 391 points | Comments)

63. Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
    (22 Feb 2012 | 391 points | Comments)

64. Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
    (23 Feb 2012 | 390 points | Comments)

65. Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
    (29 Feb 2012 | 387 points | Comments)

66. Please Steal These webOS Features
    (21 Feb 2012 | 385 points | Comments)

67. Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby
    (28 Feb 2012 | 382 points | Comments)

68. Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
    (3 Feb 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

69. The FBI's files on Steve Jobs
    (9 Feb 2012 | 377 points | Comments)

70. Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch
    (8 Feb 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

71. Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
    (16 Feb 2012 | 372 points | Comments)

72. How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis
    (15 Feb 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

73. Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’
    (15 Feb 2012 | 368 points | Comments)

74. Twitter to move away from Hashbangs
    (20 Feb 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

75. Tesla: Not so easily bricked
    (23 Feb 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

76. Web Standards
    (10 Feb 2012 | 358 points | Comments)

77. Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax
    (17 Feb 2012 | 357 points | Comments)

78. The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds
    (15 Feb 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

79. Show HN: Themes for Bootstrap
    (11 Feb 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

80. Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
    (24 Feb 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

81. "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you."
    (4 Feb 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

82. Chrome connects to three random domains at startup
    (18 Feb 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

83. Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes
    (19 Feb 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

84. You're Overthinking It
    (2 Feb 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

85. * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW
    (16 Feb 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

86. The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours
    (10 Feb 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

87. Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
    (3 Feb 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

88. Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
    (17 Feb 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

89. Vim anti-patterns
    (7 Feb 2012 | 333 points | Comments)

90. Open Web Device
    (27 Feb 2012 | 327 points | Comments)

91. Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()
    (6 Feb 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

92. Never Make Counter-Offers
    (3 Feb 2012 | 324 points | Comments)

93. Richard Stallman's Computer Setup
    (4 Feb 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

94. My U.S. Border Nightmare
    (3 Feb 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

95. Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years
    (21 Feb 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

96. Why French Parents Are Superior
    (4 Feb 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

97. Craig Silverstein, Google Employee #1, Leaving for Khan Academy
    (9 Feb 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

98. Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?
    (12 Feb 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

99. Submarine Cable Map
    (28 Feb 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

100. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine
     (27 Feb 2012 | 316 points | Comments)