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1.Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) (raptitude.com)
227 points by dsr12 on Feb 17, 2013 | 121 comments
2.Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World (wired.com)
213 points by cyphersanctus on Feb 17, 2013 | 149 comments
3.The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
191 points by danboarder on Feb 17, 2013 | 51 comments
4.What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud (stockfraudstory.blogspot.com)
177 points by bsims on Feb 17, 2013 | 32 comments
5.There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US (petapixel.com)
166 points by rpledge on Feb 17, 2013 | 46 comments
6.A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks (github.com/ipython)
161 points by houshuang on Feb 17, 2013 | 8 comments
7.Letter from the grave (2009) (newyorker.com)
143 points by toddrew on Feb 17, 2013 | 39 comments
8.SourceTree for Windows beta (sourcetreeapp.com)
140 points by bencevans on Feb 17, 2013 | 52 comments
9.LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base [video] (fosdem.org)
134 points by ExpiredLink on Feb 17, 2013 | 94 comments
10.The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care (juliefredrickson.tumblr.com)
128 points by brianvan on Feb 17, 2013 | 106 comments
11.Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp (erdi.hu)
129 points by malloc47 on Feb 17, 2013 | 13 comments
12.Tips for work-life balance (might.net)
127 points by g3orge on Feb 17, 2013 | 24 comments
13.Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game (github.com/johnearnest)
126 points by RodgerTheGreat on Feb 17, 2013 | 18 comments
14.The Story of Wanz, 51-Year-Old Breakout Singer on "Thrift Shop" (popdust.com)
122 points by _rrnv on Feb 17, 2013 | 47 comments
15.Design of Lisp-based Processors (1979) (dspace.mit.edu)
117 points by Cieplak on Feb 17, 2013 | 35 comments
16.Interactive Vim Tutorial (openvim.com)
102 points by of on Feb 17, 2013 | 33 comments
17.As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide (nytimes.com)
101 points by danso on Feb 17, 2013 | 47 comments
18.Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?
95 points by rohanpai on Feb 17, 2013 | 92 comments
19.How domains became backwards (newgas.net)
95 points by advisedwang on Feb 17, 2013 | 37 comments
20.In China, Betting It All on a Child in College (nytimes.com)
92 points by awk on Feb 17, 2013 | 67 comments
21.Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car (consumerreports.org)
85 points by slantyyz on Feb 17, 2013 | 111 comments
22.Dear awesome startups, don’t join an accelerator, unless… (pandodaily.com)
85 points by yesplorer on Feb 17, 2013 | 36 comments

You can curse us all you want. I curse things at random all the time. But then get back to work. The challenge you've briefly engaged with isn't a problem; it's a market opportunity. While the "it" crowd is repeatedly failing to achieve any lasting success with their completely pointless photo-sharing applications running on their 4th successive new storage backend (was mysql, then mongo, then homebrew, now postgres; really, was database-of-the-week really the social scene you wanted an entry pass into?), pick out offerings specifically based on what the "it" crowd would find unfashionable.

See if they're not begging you for jobs a few years from now.

The valley clique isn't a privilege for 20-something men; it's a trap for them. It eats their time, and, at least where it intersects with Hacker News, serves to out people you'll know never to work with professionally.

24.A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked (businessweek.com)
82 points by kevbin on Feb 17, 2013 | 45 comments
25.How To Design For Android Devices (mengto.com)
80 points by nvk on Feb 17, 2013 | 32 comments
26.World's Dumbest Rebrand? (inc.com)
75 points by yesplorer on Feb 17, 2013 | 95 comments
27.Android apps can now use Subscription Billing (android.com)
74 points by jfoster on Feb 17, 2013 | 10 comments
28.PayMill. Is it really a clone of Stripe? (prashant.es)
72 points by Rulero on Feb 17, 2013 | 56 comments
29.Scans reveal intricate brain wiring (bbc.co.uk)
69 points by haven on Feb 17, 2013 | 19 comments
30.Harlem Shake - For Website (hsmaker.com)
70 points by sirzataytac on Feb 17, 2013 | 27 comments

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