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1.		Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right
		469 points by jacques_chester on March 3, 2011 \| 154 comments
2.		The blind man who taught himself to see (mensjournal.com)
		388 points by philk on March 3, 2011 \| 84 comments
3.		Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005) (joelonsoftware.com)
		286 points by niyazpk on March 3, 2011 \| 106 comments
4.		Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies (fosspatents.blogspot.com)
		275 points by FlorianMueller on March 3, 2011 \| 67 comments
5.		Pixel Perfect map of china (o.cn)
		233 points by daleharvey on March 3, 2011 \| 62 comments
6.		Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio
		216 points by ekanes on March 3, 2011 \| 83 comments
7.		Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit (reddit.com)
		207 points by jimmyjim on March 3, 2011 \| 32 comments
8.		Hipmunk for the iPhone - here's how we built it (hipmunk.com)
		173 points by kn0thing on March 3, 2011 \| 35 comments
		p_trumpet on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very ... I can confirm that the email is the one I passed on to Jacques. The PayPal account is a legit one I have used in the past and is registered under the business name Tattam Software. If I encounter any problems I will look into the other option. Thanks all... I had honestly thought the Internet had forgotten about me. Peter
10.		How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page (37signals.com)
		163 points by wlll on March 3, 2011 \| 24 comments
11.		How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings (johndcook.com)
		159 points by gnosis on March 3, 2011 \| 22 comments
12.		The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty (theatlantic.com)
		139 points by b-man on March 3, 2011 \| 78 comments
13.		Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don’t Exist (torrentfreak.com)
		130 points by Uncle_Sam on March 3, 2011 \| 147 comments
14.		Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Million Page Views A Month (highscalability.com)
		128 points by ZeroMinx on March 3, 2011 \| 61 comments
15.		Twitter Was Act One (vanityfair.com)
		126 points by jbrun on March 3, 2011 \| 24 comments
16.		Techmeme vs Hacker News (avc.com)
		125 points by guptaneil on March 3, 2011 \| 47 comments
		seldo on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very ... Donated. As a closeted gay teenager, Trumpet was the software that got me in touch with the people who literally saved my life. I could never thank this guy enough. (Edit: if you felt like making another worthy donation, the Youth Guard mailing lists are the people I'm referring to -- http://www.youth-guard.org/youth/ . I cannot overstate the impact they had on my life.)
18.		A Rare Disagreement (marco.org)
		116 points by iamclovin on March 3, 2011 \| 90 comments
		swores on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on t... Completely agree. I'm not exactly an apple fanboy, but I do love my iPad, and there isn't yet a competitor's device I'd want to replace it with (although I'm hoping BlackBerry's will change that). If he had come out and given all the ways that the iPad 2 is better than the iPad, I'd have been impressed. But spending half the time criticising competitors just came across as the kind of tacky tactic that really shouldn't be needed unless you're trying to catch up to them - not if you're trying to prevent them from catching up to you. Oh, and that's just for the attacking competitors. Going even further than that, and attacking them with incorrect spin, way too far.
20.		Evil.css: an evil stylesheet for injecting into unsuspecting users' webpages (github.com/tlrobinson)
		109 points by tlrobinson on March 3, 2011 \| 25 comments
21.		Build a CMS, no forms allowed (bergie.iki.fi)
		109 points by bergie on March 3, 2011 \| 42 comments
22.		GHC 7 is released. with LLVM, improved inliner, improved thread scheduler ... (haskell.org)
		98 points by dons on March 3, 2011 \| 14 comments
23.		Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web (gq-magazine.co.uk)
		94 points by emmanuelory on March 3, 2011 \| 47 comments
24.		What's New in Sinatra 1.2? (sinatrarb.com)
		91 points by wlll on March 3, 2011 \| 17 comments
25.		An 'athletic body' doesn't always look the same. (ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com)
		90 points by armandososa on March 3, 2011 \| 30 comments
		tc on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: The blind man who taught himself to see "Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster," he writes. "Pain is part of the price of freedom." Pain is part of the price of freedom. That's a truth that could use to be applied more widely.
		spolsky on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Mil... This might possibly be the most ridiculous comment I've ever seen on the internet, let alone Hacker News. * I am not a Microsoft Loyalist * I don't make the technical decisions. Why would I? I'm the person who knows the least * It is not necessary to use Microsoft licensing to be featured in Bing searches... that is possibly the most preposterous thing I have ever heard in my life * Microsoft licensing is a rounding error, with the possible exception of SQL Server licenses * Your bizarre personification of Stack Overflow as "Joel" is charming and quaint and completely obnoxious to the 20-odd people at Stack Overflow that actually do the work instead of sitting around browsing hacker news like I do
28.		iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement (betanews.com)
		85 points by rkudeshi on March 3, 2011 \| 52 comments
		swombat on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on t... Stay civil.
		p_trumpet on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video) yep. I'm still around. I live a quiet existence in not so sunny Hobart, Tasmania. Most unusual request - still thinking about it. Donations willingly accepted - just trying to think what kind of cool thing to provide in return for the generous donations.
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