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1.Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard (googleblog.blogspot.com)
373 points by ssclafani on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
2.Tell HN: There is a Scammer Amongst Us [ext]
333 points by lrm242 on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
3.The NYC subway system as a string instrument (mta.me)
276 points by clofresh on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.JQuery 1.5 Released (jquery.com)
269 points by digitalclubb on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
5.Farewell (ticketstumbler.com)
253 points by jacquesm on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition) [ext]
218 points by meadhikari on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 242 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur? (techcrunch.com)
196 points by azazo on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
8.Skype 5 for Mac blocks all webcam access by Flash. Skype says it is "by design" (skype.com)
193 points by lukeinth on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
9.Plenty of Fish Hacked (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
164 points by grumo on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
10. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11) (techcrunch.com)
155 points by razin on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
11.Plenty Of Fish Hacked – Chris Russo’s explains how he did it (grumomedia.com)
144 points by domino on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
12.How I Built a Startup High Frequency Trading Firm (howtohft.blogspot.com)
136 points by wkselph on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
13. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Photography - 24 hour shot (greeksky.gr)
133 points by pan69 on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
14. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (February 2011 Edition) [ext]
131 points by meadhikari on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
15.Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition (thenextweb.com)
127 points by RichardPrice on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
16. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse (codinghorror.com)
126 points by mattyb on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
17.Why you shouldn't bother with an MBA (economist.com)
116 points by KeepTalking on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
18.Pyramid Final 1.0 released (groups.google.com)
111 points by cd34 on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
19. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
19.Maybe NYC could start with a simple URL (nyc.gov)
103 points by infdaze on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
20.4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World (techcrunch.com)
92 points by jedwhite on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
21.Make up your own rules of probability (johndcook.com)
88 points by wallflower on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
22. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
22.Huge ISPs want per-GB payments from Netflix, YouTube (arstechnica.com)
85 points by abraham on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
23.Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging (hackaday.com)
85 points by bootload on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
24.Exit Hudson, enter Jenkins (jenkins-ci.org)
80 points by bborud on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
25. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
25.What if your Web startup attracts users without computers? (jasonglaspey.com)
79 points by turoczy on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
26.A tour of the Clojure landscape (ericlavigne.wordpress.com)
77 points by ericlavigne on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
27.Paul Graham's Dilemma (manyniches.com)
76 points by BrandonWatson on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark (sergeitsar.blogspot.com)
76 points by sergei on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
29."What society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil" (1994) (utexas.edu)
73 points by groaner on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
30.How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet (wired.com)
72 points by Sandman on Jan 31, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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