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1.
Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll) (techcrunch.com)
301 points by llambda on Dec 10, 2011 | 64 comments
2.
Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists (techdirt.com)
298 points by philjackson on Dec 10, 2011 | 58 comments
3.
I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent… (torrentfreak.com)
214 points by llambda on Dec 10, 2011 | 86 comments
4.
Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label” (torrentfreak.com)
179 points by lomegor on Dec 10, 2011 | 79 comments
5.
The end of social (oreilly.com)
177 points by tortilla on Dec 10, 2011 | 41 comments
6.
Getting a job in software development: A Reddit discussion round-up (reddit.com)
159 points by nassosdim on Dec 10, 2011 | 45 comments
7.
A Reddit tattoo in thanks for bone-marrow-transplant flash fundraiser (washingtonpost.com)
131 points by zachinglis on Dec 10, 2011 | 42 comments
8.
Timepicker for jQuery inspired by Google Calendar (jonthornton.github.com)
123 points by heyjonboy on Dec 10, 2011 | 18 comments
9.
Facebook is Hiding Your Mail (slate.com)
122 points by edw519 on Dec 10, 2011 | 44 comments
10.
2000x performance win (dtrace.org)
110 points by tilt on Dec 10, 2011 | 45 comments
11.
Hash Functions (comcast.net)
109 points by jacquesm on Dec 10, 2011 | 27 comments
12.
Quotes from the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968 (peterkrantz.com)
85 points by pkz on Dec 10, 2011 | 8 comments
13.
Ask HN: small startups, what do you use for health insurance?
80 points by javahava on Dec 10, 2011 | 37 comments
14.
FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer (ua.ac.be)
79 points by jacquesm on Dec 10, 2011 | 36 comments
15.
Discovery of the Higgs Boson rumoured to be at 3.5 sigma. (columbia.edu)
76 points by jsmcgd on Dec 10, 2011 | 47 comments
16.
Lamest bug we ever encountered (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
76 points by exch on Dec 10, 2011 | 23 comments
17.
What Facebook, Google+ and YouTube would have looked like in 1997 (thenextweb.com)
74 points by mdhayes on Dec 10, 2011 | 19 comments
18.
Medical Patents Must Die (marginalrevolution.com)
70 points by hammock on Dec 10, 2011 | 36 comments
19.
Scientists Find Studying For Test To Become London Cabbie Enlarges Brain (npr.org)
66 points by wallflower on Dec 10, 2011 | 31 comments
20.
PDFMiner in Python (unixuser.org)
62 points by J3L2404 on Dec 10, 2011 | 10 comments
21.
Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics” (knowing.net)
59 points by maigret on Dec 10, 2011 | 42 comments
22.
ASK PG: Did the home page algorithm change?
58 points by csomar on Dec 10, 2011 | 13 comments
23.
A Comprehensive Overview of Windows 8 Metro App Development (ashfurrow.com)
52 points by AshFurrow on Dec 10, 2011 | 30 comments
24.
Optimising REST APIs (stereoplex.com)
52 points by 6ren on Dec 10, 2011 | 16 comments
25.
CaterwaulJS "Nobody in their right mind would use this language" (caterwauljs.org)
51 points by keyle on Dec 10, 2011 | 18 comments
26.
Why Google native client will make game developers and consumers happy [video] (venturebeat.com)
48 points by sathishmanohar on Dec 10, 2011 | 40 comments
27.
Google funded browser study declares Firefox less secure than both IE and Chrome (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
45 points by suprgeek on Dec 10, 2011 | 38 comments
28.
Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow (thecloudblocks.com)
46 points by ksajadi on Dec 10, 2011 | 26 comments
29.
Three Types of Acquisitions (cdixon.org)
43 points by stevefink on Dec 10, 2011 | 10 comments
30.
Remind HN: There's a lunar eclipse right now
40 points by dkokelley on Dec 10, 2011 | 6 comments

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