top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-17

Did You Hear We Got Osama?

http://roshfu.com/2012/02/17/did-you-hear-we-got-osama.html

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Hacking Hacker News

http://joelgrus.com/2012/02/16/hacking-hacker-news/

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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

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How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui

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Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jquery-tax

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Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners

http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/#writingdesignpatterns

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John Nash's Letter to the NSA

http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/

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Forget Self-Improvement

http://www.deliberatism.com/blog/forget-self-improvement/

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I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook

http://dickbrouwer.com/post/16748664071/facebook-perils

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Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/02/canadian-digs-out-basement-using-only.html

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Redesigning the Windows Logo

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/02/17/redesigning-the-windows-logo.aspx

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Designing better user interfaces

http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/designing-better-user-interfaces

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Sloppy Reporting on the Self Driving Car

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/read-this-not-that-the-self-driving-car

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"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17079853

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They may just be chat bubbles, but they’re our chat bubbles

http://blog.hipchat.com/2012/02/17/they-may-just-be-chat-bubbles-but-theyre-our-chat-bubbles/

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Microsoft’s Biggest Miss

http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss

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Polish Prime Minister calls for EU leaders to reject ACTA

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114884,11170954,Tusk_apeluje_do_europejskich_przywodcow__Odrzucic.html%3Flokale%3Dwarszawa&usg=ALkJrhitXAZJGpHIkOhfPNE9nqnIHA_amg

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Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/court-overturns-conviction-of-ex-goldman-programmer/

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Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif

http://mothereffinganimatedgif.com/

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Visualizing Process Execution

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/02/12/visualizing-process-execution/

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