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1.Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image (lokeshdhakar.com)
212 points by tortilla on Jan 7, 2012 | 40 comments
2.The Art of Unix Programming (catb.org)
178 points by aycangulez on Jan 7, 2012 | 40 comments
3.Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life (reddit.com)
172 points by surfingdino on Jan 7, 2012 | 83 comments
4. Operating Margins (fi-le.net)
96 points by mtz7836 148 days ago | hide | 49 comments
4.Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues (nytimes.com)
143 points by FluidDjango on Jan 7, 2012 | 21 comments
5.Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised (cryptome.org)
121 points by mrb on Jan 7, 2012 | 95 comments
6.How to register a company in the UK (swombat.com)
121 points by lancashire on Jan 7, 2012 | 75 comments
7. Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication (with examples) (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 166 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss (gigaom.com)
107 points by FluidDjango on Jan 7, 2012 | 26 comments
8.The Economist on Intel versus ARM (economist.com)
97 points by malay on Jan 7, 2012 | 29 comments
9.Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again (hunterwalk.com)
96 points by kul on Jan 7, 2012 | 31 comments
10. How To Be Successful (blog.samaltman.com)
363 points by jsx5513 829 days ago | hide | 93 comments
10.Jane Street releases open source alternative to OCaml's stdlib (janestreet.com)
90 points by _bbs on Jan 7, 2012 | 12 comments
11.The Critics Rave... for Microsoft? (nytimes.com)
81 points by rkon on Jan 7, 2012 | 68 comments
12.Anatomy of a Kernel Hack (linuxchix.org)
78 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 10 comments
13. Superlinear Returns (paulgraham.com)
349 points by jsk849 606 days ago | hide | 176 comments
13."mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats (ntlworld.com)
77 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 36 comments
14.Debunking a Computer Chess Scandal (chessbase.com)
77 points by worldvoyageur on Jan 7, 2012 | 38 comments
15.Ask HN: Is there a repository of failed startups (re-usable startups idea)?
76 points by zeratul on Jan 7, 2012 | 38 comments
16. How China uses foreign firms to turbocharge its industry (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 471 days ago | hide | 135 comments
16.Why Data Structures Matter (joelneely.wordpress.com)
72 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 8 comments
17.Thoughts on yesterday's paid vs free visitor.js (tristara.com)
70 points by jseims on Jan 7, 2012 | 31 comments
18.Show HN: My weekend project, DailyPag.es (dailypag.es)
69 points by haon99 on Jan 7, 2012 | 21 comments
19. Playing offense during a downturn (medium.com)
321 points by hal4831 666 days ago | hide | 49 comments
19.EasyDNS is under DoS attack (easydns.org)
69 points by noodly on Jan 7, 2012 | 18 comments
20.How to parse HTML (perl.org)
68 points by ranit8 on Jan 7, 2012 | 32 comments
21.The Real Story On That "Antidepressant Surge" (neuroskeptic.blogspot.com)
53 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 7, 2012 | 23 comments
22. the attention cottage (blog.ayjay.org)
349 points by lrl8979 683 days ago | hide | 130 comments
22.CLI tool for GitHub Issues (github.com/vesln)
52 points by vesln on Jan 7, 2012 | 17 comments
23.Case study: How & why to build consumer apps with Node.js (venturebeat.com)
50 points by jolie on Jan 7, 2012 | 15 comments
24.Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly (nature.com)
49 points by jv22222 on Jan 7, 2012 | 4 comments
25. Is This Public? (virtualelena.substack.com)
91 points by hex6111 640 days ago | hide | 30 comments
25.Ask HN: Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US)
49 points by FredBrach on Jan 7, 2012 | 56 comments
26.Minimal TODOs for Linux (adrianmouat.com)
46 points by amouat on Jan 7, 2012 | 24 comments
27.FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff live stream (10:30am eastern) (nasa.gov)
45 points by ja27 on Jan 7, 2012 | 23 comments
28. How To Invest In Startups (blog.samaltman.com)
304 points by otn8494 606 days ago | hide | 53 comments
28.New slow-motion DoS attack: just a few PCs, little fear of detection (arstechnica.com)
45 points by tilt on Jan 7, 2012 | 11 comments
29.The Timeless Genius of Kodak’s George Eastman (technologizer.com)
43 points by technologizer on Jan 7, 2012 | 4 comments
30.Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters’ Account Information (mashable.com)
37 points by jmj42 on Jan 7, 2012 | 18 comments
31. To Fight against Entropy (geohot.github.io)
119 points by luz8339 1079 days ago | hide | 46 comments

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