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1.		Viral Video About Body Scanners (tsa.gov)
		448 points by maverhick on March 8, 2012 \| 198 comments
2.		Advice From An Old Programmer (learnpythonthehardway.org)
		429 points by bemmu on March 8, 2012 \| 122 comments
3.		OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple (osmfoundation.org)
		364 points by sambeau on March 8, 2012 \| 151 comments
4.		Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language' (zdnet.com)
		363 points by Slimy on March 8, 2012 \| 118 comments
5.		Learning from 20 years of personal analytics (stephenwolfram.com)
		352 points by hendler on March 8, 2012 \| 59 comments
		pg on March 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Viral Video About Body Scanners There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality. Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.
7.		Live ships map (marinetraffic.com)
		257 points by jan-hocevar on March 8, 2012 \| 51 comments
8.		The Evolution of a Python Programmer (gist.github.com)
		255 points by jimhoff11 on March 8, 2012 \| 40 comments
9.		New Reddit CEO reporting for duty (reddit.com)
		248 points by hornokplease on March 8, 2012 \| 41 comments
10.		Responsive.is (responsive.is)
		190 points by parmgrewal on March 8, 2012 \| 36 comments
11.		The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck. (syntax-k.de)
		189 points by AndreyKarpov on March 8, 2012 \| 108 comments
12.		A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar (github.com/chipersoft)
		178 points by switz on March 8, 2012 \| 36 comments
13.		An Open Letter to Warby Parker (classicspecs.tumblr.com)
		177 points by jamiest on March 8, 2012 \| 73 comments
14.		What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line (37signals.com)
		167 points by hawke on March 8, 2012 \| 67 comments
15.		npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts (gist.github.com)
		151 points by jashkenas on March 8, 2012 \| 79 comments
16.		What if doing your best -- at what you're best at -- isn't enough? (tedquarters.net)
		150 points by DanLivesHere on March 8, 2012 \| 36 comments
17.		Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data? (alastaira.wordpress.com)
		133 points by sambeau on March 8, 2012 \| 65 comments
18.		How I built my blog in one day (erjjones.github.com)
		129 points by erjjones on March 8, 2012 \| 62 comments
		suprgeek on March 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Viral Video About Body Scanners This has got to be one of the stupidest and (unintentionally) scary responses ever to a serious attempt to question security. - Ad-Hominem attacks on the person raising the questions - No direct refutatio of the specific points raised in the Video - Co-relation and causation confusion (we have found x hence we are effective against the things in the video) - Pathetic attempt at informal tone of voice - Appeal to Stats and big impressive numbers when none is justified In short - Americans need to be really upset that their security is handled by these buffoons. -
20.		Raspberry Pi: Manufacturing Hiccup (raspberrypi.org)
		122 points by switz on March 8, 2012 \| 43 comments
21.		Twitter uses SPDY (skitch.com)
		119 points by ropiku on March 8, 2012 \| 26 comments
22.		How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play (gamasutra.com)
		108 points by pbj on March 8, 2012 \| 24 comments
23.		The Cost of Cracking (priceonomics.com)
		97 points by omarish on March 8, 2012 \| 38 comments
24.		Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom (liamkaufman.com)
		88 points by liamk on March 8, 2012 \| 30 comments
		famousactress on March 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Viral Video About Body Scanners Wow. This blog post makes me WAY more afraid of the TSA than the original video did. I can't wrap my head around the language used. "Things that go BOOM" ???!?!?! Are you fucking kidding me? These are the people that are supposedly acting in the interests of our safety? Disgusted. Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.
26.		Sonalight (YC W12) Lets You Text While Driving Without Touching A Phone (techcrunch.com)
		84 points by sskates on March 8, 2012 \| 52 comments
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28.		MIT awards pirate certificates to undergraduates (boston.com)
		79 points by jamesbritt on March 8, 2012 \| 48 comments
29.		Show HN: Petridish.org, a kickstarter for scientific research (petridish.org)
		79 points by ilz on March 8, 2012 \| 22 comments
30.		New Medium Instance, 64-bit bit Ubiquity, SSH Client (aws.typepad.com)
		75 points by jeffbarr on March 8, 2012 \| 23 comments
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