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1.Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More (torrentfreak.com)
217 points by barredo on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
2.Poll: Where do you work? [ext]
207 points by aditya on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 191 comments [ext]
3.Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Python (github.com/greplin)
197 points by rwalker on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Grubwithus (YC W11) Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals (mashable.com)
189 points by mhunter on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
5.New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
179 points by julian37 on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: Review RentPost.com (rentpost.com)
179 points by oojacoboo on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 247 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone (johnsphones.com)
169 points by duncanj on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
8.Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (cleveralgorithms.com)
163 points by petercooper on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
9.Apple.com gets a redesign (apple.com)
145 points by ssclafani on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.Periodic Table of Google APIs (code.google.com)
143 points by rafaelc on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
11.How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming (brandonbyars.com)
141 points by gnosis on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
12.One page: Javascript in 10 minutes (infogami.com)
139 points by alifaziz on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
13. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Woot's take on affiliate marketing (woot.com)
127 points by minouye on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
14.Ooops. First 3 messages in my gmail spam folder (skitch.com)
126 points by joshfraser on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
15.The Next Big Language (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
124 points by niyazpk on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
16. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
16.PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool (code.google.com)
122 points by aheilbut on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
17.What Stops Female Founders? (foundersatwork.com)
117 points by ph0rque on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
18.Anonymously Post/Compare Startup Salary & Equity Offers (ackwire.com)
119 points by philfreo on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Ask HN: Review DocumentCloud.org [ext]
92 points by jashkenas on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
20."I Did a Bad Job" (ashmokhberi.com)
86 points by AshMokhberi on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
21.Female Would-be Founders: Learn More About Startups by Grubbing with YC Alumni (foundersatwork.com)
79 points by jl on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
22. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet (owasp.org)
74 points by wooter on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
23.Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units. (openpandora.org)
70 points by wozname on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
24.How to Hack a Marathon (andrewgertig.com)
70 points by Gertig on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
25.Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools (android-developers.blogspot.com)
69 points by daleharvey on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
26.Should employers be blind to private beliefs? (Richard Dawkins) (boingboing.net)
67 points by mike_esspe on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
27.Slashdot Launches Re-Design (slashdot.org)
66 points by Mithrandir on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
28. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
28.Perl 5.12.3 released (perl.org)
65 points by Phra on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
29.SendGrid Responds to Amazon's Simple Email Service (sendgrid.com)
64 points by joshfraser on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
30.No opting out from Facebook turning your check-ins, likes into ads (arstechnica.com)
60 points by abraham on Jan 26, 2011 [ext] | 30 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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