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2.Ubuntu on tablets (ubuntu.com)
528 points by jrgifford on Feb 19, 2013 | 259 comments
3.Hello. I'm a compiler (stackoverflow.com)
472 points by andremedeiros on Feb 19, 2013 | 154 comments
4.Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
433 points by daenz on Feb 19, 2013 | 175 comments
5.Vim After 11 Years (statico.github.com)
405 points by statico on Feb 19, 2013 | 239 comments
6.Using Silk Road (gwern.net)
368 points by HockeyPlayer on Feb 19, 2013 | 165 comments
No, it would be a distraction from the core content
353 points | parent
8.Nginx now supports Websockets (nginx.com)
358 points by Jhsto on Feb 19, 2013 | 65 comments
9.Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com)
324 points by maximveksler on Feb 19, 2013 | 121 comments
10.A Most Peculiar Test Drive – Follow Up (teslamotors.com)
277 points by neuralnetwork on Feb 19, 2013 | 200 comments
11.Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem (gamasutra.com)
258 points by Gmo on Feb 19, 2013 | 113 comments
No
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Why don't we let Reddit be Reddit, and HN be HN?

Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us?

This is a very bad idea in my opinion. Since I have no clue how to run a busy site, that means it'll probably happen. :)

14.What Does 200 Calories Look Like? (wisegeek.com)
239 points by shawndumas on Feb 19, 2013 | 255 comments
Maybe, as long as stayed civil and interesting
222 points | parent
16.Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks (angrystatistician.blogspot.com)
220 points by octonion on Feb 19, 2013 | 84 comments
17.Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com)
206 points by professorplumb on Feb 19, 2013 | 32 comments
18.Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. (nytimes.com)
198 points by wanderingmarker on Feb 19, 2013 | 109 comments
19.AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef (aws.typepad.com)
208 points by jeffbarr on Feb 19, 2013 | 77 comments
20.Aaron Swartz's FBI File Released (firedoglake.com)
184 points by rabble on Feb 19, 2013 | 52 comments
21.The second-order-diff Git trick (moertel.com)
180 points by malloc47 on Feb 19, 2013 | 41 comments
22.Dell’s Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability (arstechnica.com)
177 points by recoiledsnake on Feb 19, 2013 | 138 comments
23.Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ (linuxjournal.com)
169 points by jonasvp on Feb 19, 2013 | 72 comments
24.SkiFree in the Browser (basicallydan.github.com)
157 points by basicallydan on Feb 19, 2013 | 61 comments
25.Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs (ox.ac.uk)
156 points by danielwozniak on Feb 19, 2013 | 155 comments
26.Groundwork - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Framework (sidereel.com)
155 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 19, 2013 | 96 comments
27.Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire (wired.com)
145 points by sk2code on Feb 19, 2013 | 45 comments
28.Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units (mandiant.com)
140 points by holograham on Feb 19, 2013 | 61 comments
29.3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air (newscientist.com)
137 points by ColinWright on Feb 19, 2013 | 25 comments
30.Amazon Redshift is 10x faster and cheaper than Hadoop and Hive (slideshare.net)
138 points by fujibee on Feb 19, 2013 | 42 comments

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