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1.		Proposal: "{" and "}" to be known as openstache, closestache (sigusr2.net)
		163 points by apgwoz on March 10, 2010 \| 73 comments
2.		Mozilla rips off Metalab, issue apparently resolved within the hour (metalabdesign.com)
		158 points by dzlobin on March 10, 2010 \| 125 comments
3.		73 Prime Numbers (73primenumbers.com)
		156 points by swombat on March 10, 2010 \| 30 comments
4.		World's first commercially available Jetpack goes on sale (techradar.com)
		125 points by hachiya on March 10, 2010 \| 48 comments
5.		How to Quit Your Job (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		124 points by wheels on March 10, 2010 \| 89 comments
6.		Try Redis in your browser (redis-db.com)
		104 points by paulsmith on March 10, 2010 \| 18 comments
7.		How to quadruple your productivity with an army of student interns (ksplice.com)
		95 points by price on March 10, 2010 \| 46 comments
8.		Unlimited Detail Wants To Kill 3D Cards (rockpapershotgun.com)
		91 points by lobo-tuerto on March 10, 2010 \| 64 comments
		spoondan on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Mozilla rips off Metalab, issue apparently resolve... I think this is a gross, misleading, and irresponsible reaction. The cited image is from the Mozilla wiki under a section entitled "Current mock-ups and screenshots". I cannot find any evidence that Mozilla has released a site or application with this UI. There is nothing anywhere to indicate that the design shown is "new", that it is in any way intended to be the final design, or that the stolen graphical elements will actually be used in the real product.
10.		Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning" (dougpetkanics.com)
		80 points by thedob on March 10, 2010 \| 65 comments
11.		Git's Little Bundle of Joy (progit.org)
		81 points by bugs on March 10, 2010 \| 12 comments
12.		Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages
		80 points by garply on March 10, 2010 \| 10 comments
13.		Planned features for Emacs 24 (lists.gnu.org)
		80 points by fogus on March 10, 2010 \| 47 comments
14.		Marry Him: The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough (theatlantic.com)
		80 points by jseliger on March 10, 2010 \| 87 comments
15.		Have Tracing JIT Compilers Won? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		76 points by nex3 on March 10, 2010 \| 39 comments
16.		Epic win for transparency on ACTA (christianengstrom.wordpress.com)
		76 points by stse on March 10, 2010 \| 20 comments
17.		Digg Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra (digg.com)
		69 points by jbellis on March 10, 2010 \| 25 comments
18.		On Learning Haskell (ibiblio.org)
		74 points by karlzt on March 10, 2010 \| 39 comments
19.		Life Lessons From Albert Einstein (dumblittleman.com)
		69 points by hendler on March 10, 2010 \| 18 comments
20.		Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One (techcrunch.com)
		65 points by babyshake on March 10, 2010 \| 13 comments
21.		Google Maps Adds Directions for Cyclists (nytimes.com)
		65 points by hachiya on March 10, 2010 \| 22 comments
		RiderOfGiraffes on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: LHC to shut down for a year to address safety conc... Prof Brian Cox has just said on Twitter: > There is nothing wrong with LHC - lazy journalism. > Schedule announced in Jan, 18 months physics, 12 month > engineering shutdown afterwards > I just saw the BBC "news" story about LHC schedule - > I know I'm a BBC person but it's really shoddy! This > kind of thing really annoys me. > ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular > shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how > complex machines are operated ! > I repeat: #LHC will run for 12 - 18 months now. It will > then shut down, AS ACCELERATORS DO, for maintenance and > upgrades. ENGINEERING !!! This is causing something of an uproar in TwitterSpace: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23LHC Edited for layout and to add link to twitter search. And this comment.
23.		Google Reader: Play (google.com)
		60 points by mtinkerhess on March 10, 2010 \| 25 comments
		chubbard on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: New IDE: code bubbles I like the concepts of the bubbles and the fact that it show call execution so well instead of one file at a time. That's really cool, but what I find so amazing is that since they built on top of Eclipse they got much further towards a usable system like having an integrated debugger was a nice surprise to me. 10-20 years ago the gap between an academic project and a finished product would have been much wider. Not to mention they got to explore more ground with the concept. Just shows how open source software enables innovation better.
25.		Founder of ZOHO Gives Bootstrapping Tips on Mixergy (mixergy.com)
		55 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 10, 2010 \| 18 comments
26.		Hands On: Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 (gearlog.com)
		53 points by ilamont on March 10, 2010 \| 11 comments
		thetable on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: New IDE: code bubbles It's odd that it's so rare in software to find window widgets that push each other out of the way instead of overlapping. I'm thinking of the gazillion pallettes in Adobe CS that always occlude each other. You'd think they'd have figured that out by now.
28.		Panic-inspired: Round up of business dashboards (mindscape.co.nz)
		50 points by traskjd on March 10, 2010 \| 11 comments
		edw519 on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: 73 Prime Numbers You too can learn how to make money by writing about how to make money writing business books. If only this were a joke. (Thanks, davidw, you made my day!)
		dboyd on March 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Proposal: "{" and "}" to be known as openstache, c... With apologies for dampening the mood of the original post... `() == paranetheses [] == brackets {} == braces` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket
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