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1.Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO (techcrunch.com)
311 points by transburgh on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
2.I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) (kswizz.com)
250 points by kenneth on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
3.My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer (jeanhsu.com)
244 points by jeanhsu on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
4. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
4.Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds (randsinrepose.com)
153 points by filament on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
5.How Much Does a Single Search Cost Google? (billwarner.posterous.com)
137 points by jackowayed on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
6.Threewords.me is up for private auction (threewords.me)
136 points by mhunter on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
7. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
7.Piracy Doubled My App Sales (amitay.us)
131 points by danielamitay on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
8.New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
121 points by mikecane on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
9.JQuery 1.5 promises a better future. (renesd.blogspot.com)
118 points by illumen on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Octave: An Alternative to the High Cost of Matlab (math-blog.com)
117 points by acangiano on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
11.Google Translate adds easter egg that recognizes the beatboxing hack (translate.google.com)
116 points by martinkallstrom on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
12.Roll your own LinkBait headline (whattofix.com)
100 points by swombat on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Show HN: Pocket - my first app ever (letspocket.com)
99 points by guynamedloren on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
14.Solitude and Leadership (theamericanscholar.org)
99 points by ssclafani on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
15.Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave (nytimes.com)
92 points by joshwa on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 29 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.Django Software Stack (sourcefabric.org)
88 points by _1rgc on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
17.Compiling to lambda-calculus: Turtles all the way down (might.net)
86 points by budu on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
18.Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail [ext]
85 points by octavdruta on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
19. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Dog learns over 1,000 words (nytimes.com)
81 points by dangoldin on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript (pageforest.com)
79 points by mckoss on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
21.Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (root.org)
72 points by r11t on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
22.Googlers Expose Sketchy SEO Company (seroundtable.com)
73 points by rooshdi on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
23.GET vs POST in terms of security (stackoverflow.com)
72 points by TimothyBurgess on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
24.Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss (ontwik.com)
69 points by ahmicro on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.IPhone v Android debate 'not important' (thedailymash.co.uk)
64 points by gaius on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
26.Groupon CEO Apologizes For Poorly Executed Offer In Japan (info.groupon.jp)
65 points by patio11 on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
27.EU funds open source language Scala (h-online.com)
62 points by Kototama on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
28. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.Xfce 4.8 released (xfce.org)
61 points by ahmet on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
29.Advice to a college sophomore programmer (pchristensen.com)
61 points by pchristensen on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
30.Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think (theatlantic.com)
52 points by budu on Jan 17, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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