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1.Google's Kenyan ripoff? (boingboing.net)
457 points by Chirag on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
2.Google responds to the Mocality blog post (plus.google.com)
380 points by thehodge on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
3.My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought (amandapeyton.com)
344 points by inmygarage on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.DuckDuckGo gets a new look (duckduckgo.com)
331 points by edwardy20 on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
5.New York City gets a Software Engineering High School (joelonsoftware.com)
329 points by apress on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
6.Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation (notch.tumblr.com)
298 points by ekosz on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 195 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 22 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 (paulgraham.com)
293 points by anateus on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
8.Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds (rodneyfolz.com)
289 points by folz on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
9.Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget (alltop.com)
288 points by pud on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 103 comments [ext]
10. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA (gigaom.com)
253 points by ukdm on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
11.Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices (softwarefreedom.org)
254 points by zoowar on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
12.Twitter Bootstrap Generator (martinbean.co.uk)
247 points by bravolima on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.The Rise of the New Groupthink (nytimes.com)
242 points by user02138 on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
14.What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature (stephenjdubner.com)
199 points by adam on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
15.How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days (justinvincent.com)
186 points by jv22222 on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
16. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
16.How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month (eddychan.com)
156 points by eddy_chan on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
17.How I got into MIT when I was 14 (laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com)
153 points by LDTeslaImmortal on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
18.Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout (wikipediablackout.com)
143 points by yanowitz on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (codinghorror.com)
130 points by gavinballard on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
20.Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django? (djangohire.com)
125 points by plinkplonk on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
21.DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents (cnet.com)
121 points by phreeza on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
22. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
22.Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed [ext]
117 points by marbletiles on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
23.How Copyright Industries Con Congress (cato-at-liberty.org)
115 points by ops7eng5 on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
24.My Recent Experience with PayPal Customer Service. (christianowens.com)
114 points by chrowe on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.The World is Full of Real People (jumpstartlab.com)
106 points by j3 on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
26.Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18 (nytm.org)
105 points by MattRogish on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
27.Codemasters are on the scrounge (jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com)
105 points by jheriko on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
28. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
28.Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images (gethopper.com)
104 points by endtwist on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
29.My Recent Nine Months as an Indie Developer (eiswuxe.de)
106 points by potomak on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
30.My thoughts on why I will not call my business a startup again (pakorabutty.tumblr.com)
90 points by ayusaf on Jan 13, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments

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