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1.An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 (24100.net)
364 points by bering on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 349 comments [ext]
2.America's Real Criminal Element: Lead (motherjones.com)
339 points by LiveTheDream on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 195 comments [ext]
3.Keeping Safari a secret (donmelton.com)
283 points by ryannielsen on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
4. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
4.Entropy generator to provide significant lag reduction in Android (xda-developers.com)
244 points by moeffju on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
5.Django 1.5 release candidate available (djangoproject.com)
209 points by jacobian on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
6.Mega Man 2 (NES) password algorithm and code (github.com/kpshek)
197 points by kpshek on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Scala 2.10 now available (scala-lang.org)
194 points by lanna on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
8.IRC is dead, long live IRC (pingdom.com)
175 points by kurjam on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
9.Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games (game-icons.net)
162 points by Hirvesh on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
10. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
10.Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby (gist.github.com)
157 points by lefnire on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
11.Android SDK is now proprietary (fsfe.org)
152 points by Fletch137 on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
12.μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby (fogus.github.com)
137 points by Peteris on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
13. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.How blind people use Instagram [video] (kottke.org)
131 points by Charlesmigli on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
14.The USPTO Would Like to Partner with the Software Community (groklaw.net)
123 points by roqetman on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
15.Now Google is blocking Windows Phones from accessing maps.Google.com (wmpoweruser.com)
121 points by unwiredben on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
16. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
16.Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? [ext]
114 points by muellerwolfram on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
17.Caffeinated Seas Found off U.S. Pacific Northwest (nationalgeographic.com)
107 points by MaysonL on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
18.Felix - a fast scripting language (felix-lang.org)
107 points by nmcfarl on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
19. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
19.Turkish government agency spoofed Google certificate “accidentally” (arstechnica.com)
104 points by 6thSigma on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
20.Life and Career Lessons – 2012 (codercowboy.com)
92 points by codercowboy on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
21.It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something (npr.org)
89 points by danso on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
22. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 12 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Disney announces Wreck-It Ralph will arrive for download before DVD, Blu-ray (engadget.com)
84 points by signa11 on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: Power Analysis of Atom, Krait, and Cortex A15 (anandtech.com)
80 points by lispython on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
24.Welcome to “Learning by Shipping” (learningbyshipping.com)
77 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
25. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
25.A year without caffeine (bryanalexander.org)
76 points by sramsay on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
26.Erlang OTP Tutorial For Beginners (bot.co.za)
75 points by signa11 on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
27.Three Little Birds – Deriving the Y Combinator (samesake.com)
74 points by eggsby on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
28.IMF Chief Economist apologizes for being wrong on austerity (washingtonpost.com)
69 points by martythemaniak on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
29.Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and vector spaces in Haskell (izbicki.me)
66 points by jackpirate on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
30.Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled (pandodaily.com)
64 points by antr on Jan 4, 2013 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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