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1.My daughter was first sued in the womb (ftrain.com)
477 points by henning on May 16, 2011 | 67 comments
2.Poll: Do you support software patents?
429 points by robryan on May 16, 2011 | 303 comments
For a much shorter period
349 points | parent
4.Mono Developers start their own company (tirania.org)
325 points by jstedfast on May 16, 2011 | 80 comments
5.Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone. (humbledmba.com)
292 points by jaf12duke on May 16, 2011 | 125 comments
6.Ridiculously easy world times and meetings across time zones (worldtimebuddy.com)
239 points by jemeshsu on May 16, 2011 | 72 comments
7.Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it has an Internet connection (superuser.com)
222 points by ivoflipse on May 16, 2011 | 40 comments
8.Cranking (43folders.com)
181 points by seancron on May 16, 2011 | 30 comments

This John Carmack quote is relevant and shares your sentiments:

"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack


I can't stand the idea that I might be at my computer, working with code, and develop something independently which later causes me to get sued. Abolish all software patents.

edited to add "software".

Only when the company active makes use of them
157 points | parent

Request: change the title by appending "fiction" so that folks like me don't start reading to try and figure out how the hell a person can be sued while in the womb.
13.IOS RAGE rendered with WebGL (tojicode.com)
154 points by gnufs on May 16, 2011 | 10 comments
14.New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony (arstechnica.com)
148 points by evo_9 on May 16, 2011 | 67 comments
15.Merlin Mann: Better (merlinmann.com)
146 points by benofsky on May 16, 2011 | 24 comments
16.Groklaw to continue with former Red Hat general counsel in charge (groklaw.net)
144 points by grellas on May 16, 2011 | 4 comments
17.Rumor: Microsoft To Buy Nokia For $30 Billion (softsailor.com)
140 points by Garbage on May 16, 2011 | 84 comments
18.Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too (arstechnica.com)
136 points by shawndumas on May 16, 2011 | 92 comments
19.Max Levchin's Early PayPal Photos (levchin.com)
118 points by stevenj on May 16, 2011 | 21 comments
20.Kung Fu Tetris (lannyland.blogspot.com)
114 points by sbussard on May 16, 2011 | 7 comments
Support current system with other changes
109 points | parent
22.How Piracy Made 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller (fastcompany.com)
103 points by ssclafani on May 16, 2011 | 34 comments
23.Show HN: This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration. (keen.posterous.com)
100 points by k33n on May 16, 2011 | 20 comments
24.Lodsys explains in-app patent warning letters sent to iOS developers (thenextweb.com)
99 points by DeusExMachina on May 16, 2011 | 78 comments
25.MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist (dzone.com)
95 points by DanielRibeiro on May 16, 2011 | 21 comments
26.A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang servers (ostinelli.net)
95 points by EvanMiller on May 16, 2011 | 33 comments
27.Show HN: Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness
102 points by brianmwang on May 16, 2011 | 65 comments
28.Diaspora - Moving Forward (joindiaspora.com)
92 points by sahillavingia on May 16, 2011 | 65 comments
29.EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs (librato.com)
89 points by mike_heffner on May 16, 2011 | 43 comments
30.San Francisco Set to Ban Unsolicited Phone Books (good.is)
86 points by nowsourcing on May 16, 2011 | 35 comments

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