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1.		Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content (jotform.net)
		605 points by Maxious on Feb 16, 2012 \| 236 comments
2.		Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (apple.com)
		465 points by cstuder on Feb 16, 2012 \| 357 comments
3.		Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site (groups.google.com)
		456 points by potomak on Feb 16, 2012 \| 118 comments
4.		All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately (technologyreview.com)
		435 points by rberger on Feb 16, 2012 \| 123 comments
5.		Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing (daringfireball.net)
		419 points by MaxGabriel on Feb 16, 2012 \| 302 comments
6.		Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store (atlassian.com)
		372 points by jespern on Feb 16, 2012 \| 154 comments
7.		* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW (paulirish.com)
		348 points by tambourine_man on Feb 16, 2012 \| 85 comments
8.		Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Carried Out Any Moment (freejafarpanahi.wordpress.com)
		273 points by pooriaazimi on Feb 16, 2012 \| 120 comments
9.		Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars (physorg.com)
		258 points by dantheman on Feb 16, 2012 \| 133 comments
10.		Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day (avc.com)
		192 points by pors on Feb 16, 2012 \| 91 comments
		mixmax on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated ... If you read through the comments there's a lot of angry users demanding refunds and questioning the service. There's a fair chance that they won't be able to bounce back after this. Especially if the domain doesn't come back up within a day or two. In other words, this might very well kill a company that someone worked hard to get off the ground. And if you have any usergenerated content it might happen to your company too. Apparently without due process, and without warning. This is preposterous.
12.		Basecamp Next: UI Preview (37signals.com)
		159 points by fbuilesv on Feb 16, 2012 \| 81 comments
13.		Backbone vs Ember (smus.com)
		147 points by borismus on Feb 16, 2012 \| 40 comments
14.		Django 1.4 Beta 1 Release (djangoproject.com)
		146 points by googletron on Feb 16, 2012 \| 30 comments
15.		YSlow is now open source (github.com/marcelduran)
		138 points by aritraghosh007 on Feb 16, 2012 \| 14 comments
16.		Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm (arstechnica.com)
		138 points by evo_9 on Feb 16, 2012 \| 42 comments
17.		The jQuery Slider Plugin with Infinite Style (sequencejs.com)
		125 points by earlyriser on Feb 16, 2012 \| 26 comments
18.		About Gatekeeper (panic.com)
		124 points by ssclafani on Feb 16, 2012 \| 62 comments
19.		Don't fall in love with your technology (dadgum.com)
		123 points by angrycoder on Feb 16, 2012 \| 55 comments
20.		Sleepyti.me (sleepyti.me)
		122 points by michaelkscott on Feb 16, 2012 \| 40 comments
21.		Show HN: Photo Picker+, New Library Improves Native Photo Picker (iOS+Android) (picture.io)
		121 points by ranvir on Feb 16, 2012 \| 33 comments
22.		Look for opportunities rather than ideas (swombat.com)
		111 points by pron on Feb 16, 2012 \| 14 comments
		ericabiz on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated ... Can we all PLEASE agree to stop using GoDaddy? This is a GoDaddy thing, plain and simple. They get one complaint--they shut your domain name down by changing the name servers to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM and NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM. Exactly what happened here. This has been going on for at least SIX years now; see http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0 (and I saw a hosting company shut down for similar reasons a year before that.) Wasn't their support of SOPA enough? When are we all going to wake up? How many times does this have to happen?! STOP. USING. GODADDY.
24.		Gatekeeper's Dialog (dcurt.is)
		104 points by Xuzz on Feb 16, 2012 \| 88 comments
25.		UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and pay an "unlimited" fine (arstechnica.com)
		99 points by evo_9 on Feb 16, 2012 \| 40 comments
26.		Nothing in Android makes sense except in the light of its original vision (dcurt.is)
		98 points by siglesias on Feb 16, 2012 \| 58 comments
		angrycoder on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| on: All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediat... A web developer made that page, but it wasn't his decision to put it there. I am going to go out on a very short limb here and say the web developer was on the few people advocating against blocking tablet users from using the normal website, since they actually understand how the web works. In fact, when presented with the mandate that they needed a mobile app, the web developer probably just wanted to create a nice HTML5 site that could be served up in any tablet or mobile browser without the need to install a special app for their particular device. Know why? Because that is what web developers do.
28.		All About Circuits (allaboutcircuits.com)
		93 points by epenn on Feb 16, 2012 \| 25 comments
29.		Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator (uspto.gov)
		92 points by grellas on Feb 16, 2012 \| 51 comments
30.		How Companies Learn Your Secrets (nytimes.com)
		93 points by 127001brewer on Feb 16, 2012 \| 7 comments
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