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1.
Ryan Dahl steps down (groups.google.com)
387 points by rhdoenges on Jan 30, 2012 | 64 comments
2.
US bars friends over Twitter joke (thesun.co.uk)
368 points by ColinWright on Jan 30, 2012 | 215 comments
3.
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think (stanford.edu)
352 points by privacyguru on Jan 30, 2012 | 115 comments
4.
GUM: A better CLI for Git (saintsjd.com)
305 points by edave on Jan 30, 2012 | 78 comments
5.
Fixing the Python subprocess interface (amoffat.github.com)
291 points by daenz on Jan 30, 2012 | 61 comments
6.
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong (wired.com)
217 points by rbanffy on Jan 30, 2012 | 48 comments
7.
Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret (idonethis.com)
221 points by rguzman on Jan 30, 2012 | 68 comments
8.
Backbone 0.9.0 released (backbonejs.org)
216 points by singingwolfboy on Jan 30, 2012 | 39 comments
9.
How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system (flurdy.com)
193 points by alexchamberlain on Jan 30, 2012 | 85 comments
10.
The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu)
186 points by MatthewPhillips on Jan 30, 2012 | 28 comments
11.
Format string vulnerability found in 'sudo' (sudo.ws)
171 points by sweis on Jan 30, 2012 | 32 comments
12.
Crowd Investing: Wefunder (wefunder.com)
174 points by ysilver on Jan 30, 2012 | 58 comments
13.
The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
161 points by mjg59 on Jan 30, 2012 | 90 comments
14.
Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"?
158 points by sbisker on Jan 30, 2012 | 39 comments
15.
Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006) (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
148 points by arto on Jan 30, 2012 | 69 comments
16.
Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials (techcrunch.com)
148 points by zds on Jan 30, 2012 | 24 comments
17.
A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB (paperplanes.de)
143 points by timf on Jan 30, 2012 | 30 comments
18.
Programming is the new High School Diploma (whattofix.com)
137 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 30, 2012 | 114 comments
19.
Interview with Facebook's Andrei Alexandrescu (serversidemagazine.com)
134 points by kmavm on Jan 30, 2012 | 24 comments
20.
Fast Lossless Color Image Compression (kdepepo.wordpress.com)
131 points by dochtman on Jan 30, 2012 | 21 comments
21.
The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText (progfu.com)
118 points by darthdeus on Jan 30, 2012 | 76 comments
22.
A brief guide to Tech Internships for CS students (alexeymk.com)
118 points by AlexeyMK on Jan 30, 2012 | 68 comments
23.
Two Things (csun.edu)
117 points by coupdegrace on Jan 30, 2012 | 46 comments
24.
The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance (scientificamerican.com)
112 points by exch on Jan 30, 2012 | 55 comments
25.
Sh*t Entrepreneurs Say (grasshopper.com)
112 points by ilamont on Jan 30, 2012 | 16 comments
26.
How going to the gym makes you stronger (leostartsup.com)
113 points by LeonW on Jan 30, 2012 | 72 comments
27.
Twitter launches new GitHub page (twitter.github.com)
112 points by maccman on Jan 30, 2012 | 30 comments
28.
Curebit’s at it again, stealing more than code this time (venturebeat.com)
110 points by benjlang on Jan 30, 2012 | 50 comments
29.
What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week) (mozilla.org)
109 points by ck2 on Jan 30, 2012 | 74 comments
30.
Using Wikileaks To Figure Out What The Government 'Redacts' (techdirt.com)
107 points by ttt_ on Jan 30, 2012 | 6 comments

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