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Top of Month - Feb 2013
  1. A Most Peculiar Test Drive
    (14 Feb 2013 | 1859 points | Comments)

  2. Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
    (13 Feb 2013 | 1763 points | Comments)

  3. Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5
    (27 Feb 2013 | 1394 points | Comments)

  4. Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
    (4 Feb 2013 | 1388 points | Comments)

  5. Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
    (4 Feb 2013 | 1386 points | Comments)

  6. Why HN was down
    (18 Feb 2013 | 1049 points | Comments)

  7. Opera moves to WebKit
    (13 Feb 2013 | 938 points | Comments)

  8. I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
    (14 Feb 2013 | 902 points | Comments)

  9. Meteorite crash in Russia
    (15 Feb 2013 | 862 points | Comments)

  10. We Found Our Son in the Subway
    (28 Feb 2013 | 839 points | Comments)

  11. No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app
    (4 Feb 2013 | 799 points | Comments)

  12. The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173
    (9 Feb 2013 | 770 points | Comments)

  13. Google Glass
    (20 Feb 2013 | 763 points | Comments)

  14. Packets of Death
    (6 Feb 2013 | 734 points | Comments)

  15. Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
    (5 Feb 2013 | 727 points | Comments)

  16. Learn Git Branching
    (16 Feb 2013 | 717 points | Comments)

  17. I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored
    (9 Feb 2013 | 701 points | Comments)

  18. Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks
    (22 Feb 2013 | 648 points | Comments)

  19. Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO
    (28 Feb 2013 | 646 points | Comments)

  20. Employees leave managers, not companies
    (6 Feb 2013 | 625 points | Comments)

  21. How I Fired Myself
    (27 Feb 2013 | 620 points | Comments)

  22. Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
    (21 Feb 2013 | 619 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
    (12 Feb 2013 | 586 points | Comments)

  24. I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
    (11 Feb 2013 | 579 points | Comments)

  25. Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S ‘fake,’ citing vehicle log data
    (11 Feb 2013 | 568 points | Comments)

  26. Python trademark at risk in Europe
    (14 Feb 2013 | 547 points | Comments)

  27. Ruby 2.0.0 Released
    (24 Feb 2013 | 546 points | Comments)

  28. Ubuntu on tablets
    (19 Feb 2013 | 528 points | Comments)

  29. DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political
    (26 Feb 2013 | 520 points | Comments)

  30. Why was my email leaked?
    (28 Feb 2013 | 513 points | Comments)

  31. Code.org – Dedicated to growing computer programming education
    (26 Feb 2013 | 509 points | Comments)

  32. Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
    (17 Feb 2013 | 494 points | Comments)

  33. The best programmers are the quickest to Google
    (25 Feb 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

  34. Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
    (6 Feb 2013 | 481 points | Comments)

  35. The Chromebook Pixel
    (21 Feb 2013 | 475 points | Comments)

  36. I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
    (9 Feb 2013 | 474 points | Comments)

  37. Hello. I'm a compiler
    (19 Feb 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

  38. Introducing Boxen
    (15 Feb 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

  39. Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
    (2 Feb 2013 | 469 points | Comments)

  40. Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'
    (26 Feb 2013 | 464 points | Comments)

  41. Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
    (8 Feb 2013 | 463 points | Comments)

  42. Death in Singapore
    (16 Feb 2013 | 459 points | Comments)

  43. The Truth about a Failing Startup
    (21 Feb 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

  44. Ten predictions (2004)
    (15 Feb 2013 | 457 points | Comments)

  45. jQuery.payment
    (7 Feb 2013 | 449 points | Comments)

  46. HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning
    (20 Feb 2013 | 445 points | Comments)

  47. It's all who you know?
    (11 Feb 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

  48. I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
    (4 Feb 2013 | 441 points | Comments)

  49. Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
    (26 Feb 2013 | 441 points | Comments)

  50. The MS Surface Pro
    (25 Feb 2013 | 440 points | Comments)

  51. HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks
    (28 Feb 2013 | 440 points | Comments)

  52. If you ever feel alone in this...
    (23 Feb 2013 | 439 points | Comments)

  53. Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
    (26 Feb 2013 | 437 points | Comments)

  54. Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
    (21 Feb 2013 | 434 points | Comments)

  55. "River" detection in text
    (23 Feb 2013 | 434 points | Comments)

  56. YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim
    (5 Feb 2013 | 427 points | Comments)

  57. Django 1.5 released
    (26 Feb 2013 | 427 points | Comments)

  58. Speaking up
    (4 Feb 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

  59. Use long flags when scripting
    (4 Feb 2013 | 423 points | Comments)

  60. Firefox introduces PDF viewer
    (20 Feb 2013 | 421 points | Comments)

  61. Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text
    (13 Feb 2013 | 420 points | Comments)

  62. X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete
    (22 Feb 2013 | 417 points | Comments)

  63. Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?
    (4 Feb 2013 | 416 points | Comments)

  64. Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
    (20 Feb 2013 | 414 points | Comments)

  65. Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
    (14 Feb 2013 | 410 points | Comments)

  66. Vim After 11 Years
    (19 Feb 2013 | 405 points | Comments)

  67. Mercator Puzzle
    (8 Feb 2013 | 400 points | Comments)

  68. Announcing MoSQL
    (5 Feb 2013 | 390 points | Comments)

  69. I'm a shut-in. This is my story
    (20 Feb 2013 | 390 points | Comments)

  70. Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router
    (26 Feb 2013 | 388 points | Comments)

  71. How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot
    (1 Feb 2013 | 386 points | Comments)

  72. Google Fails the Turing Test
    (12 Feb 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

  73. How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing
    (25 Feb 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

  74. Web Development: A Crazy World
    (12 Feb 2013 | 383 points | Comments)

  75. Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
    (14 Feb 2013 | 379 points | Comments)

  76. That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t
    (14 Feb 2013 | 375 points | Comments)

  77. A new Light Table experience
    (28 Feb 2013 | 374 points | Comments)

  78. Using Silk Road
    (19 Feb 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

  79. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
    (25 Feb 2013 | 362 points | Comments)

  80. Nginx now supports Websockets
    (19 Feb 2013 | 358 points | Comments)

  81. Why Use Make
    (24 Feb 2013 | 358 points | Comments)

  82. Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely
    (1 Feb 2013 | 351 points | Comments)

  83. Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
    (4 Feb 2013 | 347 points | Comments)

  84. Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
    (15 Feb 2013 | 343 points | Comments)

  85. Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success
    (28 Feb 2013 | 343 points | Comments)

  86. Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23 Years
    (4 Feb 2013 | 340 points | Comments)

  87. Stupid, Stupid xBox
    (12 Feb 2013 | 338 points | Comments)

  88. Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks
    (1 Feb 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

  89. Four Hours of Concentration
    (5 Feb 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

  90. Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures
    (21 Feb 2013 | 332 points | Comments)

  91. Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This
    (9 Feb 2013 | 329 points | Comments)

  92. LLVM Tutorial
    (1 Feb 2013 | 328 points | Comments)

  93. Official Steam client for Ubuntu released
    (14 Feb 2013 | 328 points | Comments)

  94. 48th Mersenne prime found
    (5 Feb 2013 | 327 points | Comments)

  95. Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014
    (7 Feb 2013 | 324 points | Comments)

  96. Good sleep, good learning, good life
    (19 Feb 2013 | 324 points | Comments)

  97. Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?
    (22 Feb 2013 | 324 points | Comments)

  98. No more remote work at Yahoo
    (25 Feb 2013 | 323 points | Comments)

  99. BBC demands DRM for HTML5
    (16 Feb 2013 | 322 points | Comments)

  100. How A Pull Request Rocked My World
    (2 Feb 2013 | 320 points | Comments)