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1.		Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (swtch.com)
		85 points by l0stman on Feb 28, 2010 \| 16 comments
2.		Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests (kalzumeus.com)
		81 points by soundsop on Feb 28, 2010 \| 30 comments
3.		Tell HN: Catalog of JavaScript libraries and CSS resources hosted on public CDNs (cdncatalog.com)
		80 points by andrewdavey on Feb 28, 2010 \| 27 comments
4.		Dustin Sallings: Running Processes (dustin.github.com)
		76 points by mbrubeck on Feb 28, 2010 \| 11 comments
5.		How NodeJS saved my web application (rfw.posterous.com)
		76 points by transmit101 on Feb 28, 2010 \| 10 comments
6.		US Manufacturing Is Not Dead (fivethirtyeight.com)
		70 points by mechanical_fish on Feb 28, 2010 \| 45 comments
7.		Doing the Microsoft Shuffle: Algorithm Fail in Browser Ballot (robweir.com)
		59 points by Flemlord on Feb 28, 2010 \| 25 comments
8.		Ask HN: A martial art for a programmer
		58 points by micrypt on Feb 28, 2010 \| 118 comments
9.		Search Y Combinator (searchyc.com)
		58 points by bgray on Feb 28, 2010 \| 10 comments
10.		Notes from a production MongoDB deployment (boxedice.com)
		57 points by dmytton on Feb 28, 2010 \| 12 comments
11.		Brainwashed: How to Reinvent Yourself (Seth Godin) (changethis.com)
		57 points by albertcardona on Feb 28, 2010 \| 35 comments
12.		Try Haskell now with interactive tutorial (reddit.com)
		54 points by alrex021 on Feb 28, 2010 \| 11 comments
13.		39-day voyage to Mars (google.com)
		52 points by freebsd_dude on Feb 28, 2010 \| 3 comments
14.		The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics (interview) (technoccult.net)
		51 points by MaysonL on Feb 28, 2010 \| 11 comments
15.		6 Months, $90,000 and (Maybe) a Great Idea (nytimes.com)
		52 points by shoesfullofdust on Feb 28, 2010 \| 13 comments
16.		Tell HN: Giving away programming books to HN members
		50 points by _mocc on Feb 28, 2010 \| 48 comments
17.		Don’t “Pull A Patzer” And Other Lessons Learned On Our Trip Down Sand Hill Road (techcrunch.com)
		49 points by edw519 on Feb 28, 2010 \| 13 comments
18.		A NetHack adventure (bdmonkeys.net)
		49 points by mapleoin on Feb 28, 2010 \| 18 comments
		CoreDumpling on Feb 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: How I reduced translation costs of 200 articles fr... As someone who has worked with many incompetent translators and often had to completely redo their jobs, I'm a bit surprised that you're willing to risk getting total crap from these random people. Perhaps this isn't a problem for you if you are getting very low-value articles translated, but I don't see how this scales to "real" translation jobs. A good translator will proofread his/her work and make sure everything is covered. They will ask you when they need clarification instead of skipping over a passage or assuming they understand it (their assumptions very often being way off base). Unfortunately, I've worked with plenty who are simply out to make a quick buck, hoping that whoever is paying them doesn't actually know the language and won't bother to check.
20.		Parking Bombs: Destroying Downtowns for Cars (theoverheadwire.blogspot.com)
		47 points by tcskeptic on Feb 28, 2010 \| 37 comments
		jrockway on Feb 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests Doing your own tests is good, but I think the username/password is too simple to benefit from the madlibs style. I also thought the wording was unusual, "I'd like to use this word ...... as my password." It could be that the strange wording was what caused the drop-off.
22.		Ask HN: An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one?
		46 points by kyro on Feb 28, 2010 \| 27 comments
23.		Keeping the Pirates at Bay (gamasutra.com)
		44 points by ssp on Feb 28, 2010 \| 48 comments
		praptak on Feb 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: A martial art for a programmer Depends on what kind of programmer you are. If you do a lot of concurrent programming in C++ then chainsaw fencing should be right for you. An advanced Lisp programmer can practice blasting opponents with pure Chi energy.
		richcollins on Feb 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: US Manufacturing Is Not Dead Secondly, there have been calls for a US industrial policy -- that is, for Washington to essentially "pick winners and losers" by promoting some industries that they feel have a high probability of success. Asian countries have been doing this for years with remarkable success and it is a policy which we clearly need to copy. The market is pretty good at picking winners. Washington likes to take money away from the winners and give it to the incumbent losers that bribe lawmakers.
26.		US government rescinds 'leave Internet alone' policy (theregister.co.uk)
		42 points by chris11 on Feb 28, 2010 \| 9 comments
27.		BBC blocks open source video players (arstechnica.com)
		40 points by anigbrowl on Feb 28, 2010 \| 15 comments
28.		SwiftBoot (swiftboot.com)
		36 points by bgray on Feb 28, 2010 \| 4 comments
29.		Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud (nasuni.com)
		35 points by nailer on Feb 28, 2010 \| 35 comments
30.		No. You Can’t Pick My Brain. (kickingsand.com)
		34 points by Adrock on Feb 28, 2010 \| 35 comments
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