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1.Tron Legacy (2010) (jtnimoy.net)
657 points by rsingla on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
2.Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory? (unix.stackexchange.com)
413 points by rawland on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
3.How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (utsalumni.org)
382 points by rrreese on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
4. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
4.Programmer Interrupted (ninlabs.com)
366 points by Off on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
5.What we discovered about InstallMonetizer [ext]
333 points by pg on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
6.Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson (shayhowe.com)
315 points by shay-howe on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
7. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
7.Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here [ext]
294 points by danilocampos on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
8.Taking payments online in Europe in 2013 (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
264 points by jmaskell on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 181 comments [ext]
9.The End of Ragequitting (codinghorror.com)
250 points by Anon84 on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
10. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 22 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.When Haskell Is Not faster than C (jacquesmattheij.com)
250 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
11.Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases (bostonherald.com)
213 points by chaostheory on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
12.New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering" (coursera.org)
195 points by msprague on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
13. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
13.Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place (freethroww.com)
152 points by nc on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
14.Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet (whowhatwhy.com)
156 points by pccampbell on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
15.Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself (scientificamerican.com)
151 points by roflc0ptic on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
16. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
16.Ludde's FPGA NES (fpganes.blogspot.se)
149 points by jyrki on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
17.My iOS 7 Wishlist (tomdale.net)
147 points by sciwiz on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
18.Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads (gosquared.com)
146 points by gnw on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
19. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
19.Why doesn't `kill -9` always work? (noah.org)
126 points by fool on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
20.Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID (infoq.com)
113 points by sethev on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
21.How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture (nytimes.com)
114 points by bensw on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
22. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Worst Bug Ever (swanson.github.com)
112 points by swanson on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
23.Designer News (layervault.com)
105 points by petercooper on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
24.Geography's The Fuck (jasonpunyon.com)
104 points by JasonPunyon on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.Github blocked from China (viewdns.info)
103 points by hunvreus on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
26.One div – The single element HTML/CSS icon database (one-div.com)
87 points by afoketunji on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Wikileaks Says Aaron Swartz Was a Possible Source (mashable.com)
85 points by ma2rten on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Successful Solo Startup Founders (softwaresmitten.com)
80 points by yoyo on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.Empathy among students in engineering programmes (tandfonline.com)
79 points by oinkgrr on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
30.Google Earth puts North Korea Labour camps on the map (rte.ie)
79 points by chemcoder on Jan 21, 2013 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
31. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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