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February 2011 Archive
1.
Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad (andrewljohnson.com)
704 points by NoKarmaForMe on Feb 1, 2011 | 45 comments
2.
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results (searchengineland.com)
684 points by illdave on Feb 1, 2011 | 272 comments
3.
Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance (nytimes.com)
596 points by epall on Feb 21, 2011 | 423 comments
4.
How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup (joncrawford.com)
589 points by eoghan on Feb 11, 2011 | 112 comments
5.
Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code (placekitten.com)
569 points by thehodge on Feb 28, 2011 | 116 comments
6.
Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story) (bugzilla.gnome.org)
543 points by pufuwozu on Feb 27, 2011 | 32 comments
7.
"You've angered the hive" (arstechnica.com)
521 points by acconrad on Feb 7, 2011 | 214 comments
8.
Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform" (engadget.com)
513 points by ldayley on Feb 9, 2011 | 196 comments
9.
Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it (googleblog.blogspot.com)
511 points by atularora on Feb 1, 2011 | 196 comments
10.
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results (googleblog.blogspot.com)
508 points by dannyr on Feb 14, 2011 | 214 comments
11.
I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks (limedaring.com)
490 points by limedaring on Feb 16, 2011 | 120 comments
12.
Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
490 points by JacobAldridge on Feb 2, 2011 | 80 comments
13.
How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
488 points by felixchan on Feb 15, 2011 | 109 comments
14.
I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project. (babyli.st)
485 points by natgordon on Feb 3, 2011 | 179 comments
15.
An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection (blog.readability.com)
478 points by bensummers on Feb 21, 2011 | 199 comments
16.
Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request (github.com)
476 points by HectorRamos on Feb 13, 2011 | 72 comments
17.
Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch (getinPulse.com)
460 points by erohead on Feb 15, 2011 | 143 comments
18.
Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts (isotope.metafizzy.co)
459 points by bkudria on Feb 7, 2011 | 58 comments
19.
Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal (huyng.com)
449 points by siim on Feb 18, 2011 | 118 comments
20.
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price (arstechnica.com)
432 points by steveklabnik on Feb 10, 2011 | 155 comments
21.
Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light (reddit.com)
431 points by danteembermage on Feb 21, 2011 | 222 comments
22.
Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia (reddit.com)
430 points by budu on Feb 14, 2011 | 269 comments
23.
U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ (torrentfreak.com)
430 points by Uncle_Sam on Feb 16, 2011 | 152 comments
24.
Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows (nicolasgallagher.com)
426 points by Seldaek on Feb 17, 2011 | 60 comments
25.
Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe (uncontactedtribes.org)
418 points by timf on Feb 4, 2011 | 363 comments
26.
Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine (torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
410 points by brianwillis on Feb 28, 2011 | 132 comments
27.
Solving The Hacker News Problem (al3x.net)
407 points by tianyicui on Feb 22, 2011 | 270 comments
28.
The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)
401 points by twidlit on Feb 21, 2011 | 125 comments
29.
HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones) (mikebeauchamp.com)
395 points by ryanf on Feb 13, 2011 | 207 comments
30.
Is IE9 a modern browser? (people.mozilla.com)
378 points by etaty on Feb 15, 2011 | 173 comments