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1.Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch (getinpulse.com)
460 points by erohead on Feb 15, 2011 | 143 comments
2.Is IE9 a modern browser? (people.mozilla.com)
378 points by etaty on Feb 15, 2011 | 173 comments
3.Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. (humbledmba.com)
288 points by jaf12duke on Feb 15, 2011 | 64 comments
4.How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night (blamcast.net)
263 points by chaosmachine on Feb 15, 2011 | 68 comments
5.The Sweden Solar System (wikipedia.org)
195 points by acangiano on Feb 15, 2011 | 26 comments
6.Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold (salon.com)
186 points by aarghh on Feb 15, 2011 | 105 comments
7.C++ in Coders at Work (gigamonkeys.wordpress.com)
178 points by pmarin on Feb 15, 2011 | 185 comments
8.Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed? (time.com)
157 points by joetek on Feb 15, 2011 | 101 comments
9.Why Your Startup Needs a Visual Dashboard (mygengo.com)
150 points by domino on Feb 15, 2011 | 32 comments
10.How India's banks killed the future of commerce (cleartrip.com)
130 points by sankara on Feb 15, 2011 | 58 comments
11.Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy (venturebeat.com)
124 points by nyellin on Feb 15, 2011 | 96 comments
12.Hong Kong gets 1 Gbps broadband service for $26 a month (geek.com)
119 points by acangiano on Feb 15, 2011 | 88 comments
13.Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store (apple.com)
119 points by bjonathan on Feb 15, 2011 | 130 comments
14.Google doesn't get 'social', but Apple doesn't understand the Internet (decipher.org)
113 points by jfrumar on Feb 15, 2011 | 87 comments
15.HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot (wikipedia.org)
112 points by mtarnovan on Feb 15, 2011 | 33 comments
16.Racket 5.1 Released (racket-lang.org)
110 points by gcr on Feb 15, 2011 | 9 comments
17.Nokia Plan C (nokiaplanc.com)
98 points by dools on Feb 15, 2011 | 23 comments
18.Why did Google feel that Google Wave was a good product? (quora.com)
99 points by rpsubhub on Feb 15, 2011 | 64 comments
19.A Modern Browser (msdn.com)
96 points by etaty on Feb 15, 2011 | 86 comments
20.12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Memcached (martinfjordvald.com)
87 points by SteveMorin on Feb 15, 2011 | 61 comments
21.List of content farms to block with Google Personal Blocklist (jongales.com)
87 points by jonknee on Feb 15, 2011 | 46 comments
22.Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned (bu.mp)
94 points by jmintz on Feb 15, 2011 | 31 comments
23.Court confirms: IP addresses aren’t people (and P2P lawyers know it) (arstechnica.com)
83 points by shawndumas on Feb 15, 2011 | 11 comments
24.Hi-Res Panorama of the Sistine Chapel (vatican.va)
83 points by ajaykam on Feb 15, 2011 | 24 comments
25.CoSupport: Outsourced customer support by former 37signals-er Sarah Hatter (cosupport.us)
82 points by tptacek on Feb 15, 2011 | 38 comments
26.Using Real Names has Real Consequences (salon.com)
82 points by ikram on Feb 15, 2011 | 45 comments
27.Re-using Backbone.js Models on the server with Node.js and Socket.io (andyet.net)
76 points by ericflo on Feb 15, 2011 | 22 comments
28.Security is Mathematics (daemonology.net)
73 points by joshrule on Feb 15, 2011 | 46 comments
29.If you own the infrastructure you get to charge rent (garry.posterous.com)
70 points by dwynings on Feb 15, 2011 | 45 comments
30.Why I no longer trust EMC (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
70 points by thekguy on Feb 15, 2011 | 36 comments

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