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1.Reddit Is Down To One Developer (techcrunch.com)
197 points by citizenkeys on March 19, 2011 | 91 comments
2.Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure (manning.com)
191 points by calibraxis on March 19, 2011 | 68 comments
3.Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? (badscience.net)
173 points by baha_man on March 19, 2011 | 51 comments
4.I think tumblr has a huge security hole (pastebin.com)
165 points by adrinavarro on March 19, 2011 | 198 comments
5.New venture of Slicehost founder (devstructure.com)
163 points by DanielRibeiro on March 19, 2011 | 30 comments
6.Numbers everyone should know (highscalability.com)
142 points by chuhnk on March 19, 2011 | 44 comments
7.Want to write some code? Get away from your computer (rtwilson.com)
129 points by robintw147 on March 19, 2011 | 58 comments
8.Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms (tomazkovacic.com)
111 points by Anon84 on March 19, 2011 | 35 comments
9.Ask HN: I'm considering leaving a startup to look for big-company jobs (really).
102 points by throwaway4921 on March 19, 2011 | 67 comments
10.Superconductivity Near 20 Celsius (superconductors.org)
92 points by ph0rque on March 19, 2011 | 35 comments
11.RIP Digg (techcrunch.com)
89 points by taphangum on March 19, 2011 | 46 comments
12.Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (stuffwithstuff.com)
89 points by jashkenas on March 19, 2011 | 20 comments
13.Radiation Chart (xkcd.com)
85 points by inaequitas on March 19, 2011 | 7 comments
14.Design annoyances (codefastdieyoung.com)
87 points by sghael on March 19, 2011 | 27 comments
15.Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees (techcrunch.com)
76 points by ssclafani on March 19, 2011 | 6 comments
16.Richard Feynman: Magnets and Why Questions [video] (hus.posterous.com)
71 points by husein10 on March 19, 2011 | 19 comments
17.AMD says DirectX is hobbling PC graphics (bit-tech.net)
71 points by iwwr on March 19, 2011 | 25 comments

In the abstract, i understand, why anyone would post this. I get it, and maybe i'm getting older or something, but part of me equates posting this sort of thing with pointing at an acquaintance on the street with his fly down and having a laugh with your friends rather than telling him and having a chuckle after he's zipped up.

But the whole self-righteous and incredibly passive-aggressive "man, i think these guys have a huge problem..." followed by the "man, these guys need to shape up" and "n00b mistake!" are unproductive to the extreme.

I mean, find a bug, report it, move on. Maybe i've got some unrealistic notion of karma or general human benevolence or something, but it seems hard to believe that this is such a difficult path to take especially when nearly everyone commenting has to deal with bs of this sort day-in/out.

19.Don’t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas (techcrunch.com)
70 points by edw519 on March 19, 2011 | 23 comments

This reminds me of an interview with former NASA astronaut (and current director of the Veteran Administration's National Center for Patient Safety) who related that most people don't realize that the astronauts who died in the Challenger accident didn't die in the explosion:

> There are still many people that don't understand that the crew of the Challenger didn't die until they hit the water. They were all strapped into their seats in a basically intact crew module; their hearts were still beating when they hit the water. People think they were blown to smithereens, but that's not what happened.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/...

21.Why You Should Never Buy a Home Again (jamesaltucher.com)
68 points by jaltucher on March 19, 2011 | 97 comments
22.Chats.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group chat, launches (chats.io)
68 points by cmatthieu on March 19, 2011 | 49 comments
23.Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup (frozenhot.com)
67 points by iman on March 19, 2011 | 49 comments
24.Taking stock after 13 years (jacquesmattheij.com)
67 points by emmanuelory on March 19, 2011 | 9 comments
25.My Extravagant Zsh Prompt (stevelosh.com)
65 points by thmzlt on March 19, 2011 | 14 comments
26.Open Source Micro-Factory (openfarmtech.org)
64 points by ph0rque on March 19, 2011 | 28 comments
27.StackExchange allows discussion of techniques for removing DRM. (superuser.com)
61 points by Konerak on March 19, 2011 | 18 comments

Am I the only one hoping for a "RIP Techcrunch" any time soon ?

She just completely throw Digg's work into the trash like useless fastfood plastic bag.

This is what happens when you don't know how to create anything productive in your life, and you spend your days talking sh about other's people work. I don't care if Digg is losing visitors, it was a new concept back then, and it was successful, show some respect for the people who are/were still working for it.

I'm seriously hating TC everyday a little more.

29.A jacquesm comment led me to build HN for the rest of the world. How it works. (whatsupedia.posterous.com)
59 points by jsmoov on March 19, 2011 | 31 comments
30.The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again (kedrosky.com)
58 points by uberstart on March 19, 2011 | 7 comments

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