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1.		SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb. (house.gov)
		483 points by cjoh on Jan 17, 2012 \| 56 comments
2.		SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power" (arstechnica.com)
		447 points by john2373 on Jan 17, 2012 \| 155 comments
3.		Elsevier = Evil (scienceblogs.com)
		347 points by tokenadult on Jan 17, 2012 \| 66 comments
4.		What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago (cdt.org)
		297 points by sethbannon on Jan 17, 2012 \| 42 comments
5.		Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free (vice.com)
		281 points by ck2 on Jan 17, 2012 \| 117 comments
6.		Natural Language Processing with Python, free online (nltk.org)
		255 points by motter on Jan 17, 2012 \| 31 comments
7.		Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click (grassroutes.us)
		253 points by kandalf on Jan 17, 2012 \| 48 comments
8.		How to travel around the world for a year. (alexmaccaw.com)
		248 points by maccman on Jan 17, 2012 \| 121 comments
9.		Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post] (opengeodata.org)
		233 points by tecoholic on Jan 17, 2012 \| 39 comments
10.		SOPA is a Red Herring (curry.com)
		233 points by perkins on Jan 17, 2012 \| 43 comments
11.		Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever (hackpad.com)
		209 points by orph on Jan 17, 2012 \| 77 comments
12.		The worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter (wholelottanothing.org)
		188 points by barredo on Jan 17, 2012 \| 66 comments
13.		How I Program Stuff (rdegges.com)
		165 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 17, 2012 \| 52 comments
14.		Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap (theverge.com)
		161 points by there on Jan 17, 2012 \| 108 comments
15.		Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts (postmarkapp.com)
		162 points by alexknowshtml on Jan 17, 2012 \| 62 comments
16.		Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo (bootstrap.io)
		160 points by synparb on Jan 17, 2012 \| 59 comments
17.		Yahoo Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang (businesswire.com)
		155 points by privacyguru on Jan 17, 2012 \| 80 comments
18.		The "Army of One" entrepreneur (swombat.com)
		139 points by anthony_franco on Jan 17, 2012 \| 51 comments
19.		Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition (jpf.github.com)
		136 points by jf on Jan 17, 2012 \| 72 comments
20.		The Fixie Bike Index (priceonomics.com)
		128 points by omarish on Jan 17, 2012 \| 88 comments
21.		New TeX engines compared: LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX (tex.stackexchange.com)
		123 points by idle on Jan 17, 2012 \| 8 comments
22.		If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit (searchengineland.com)
		118 points by SquareWheel on Jan 17, 2012 \| 13 comments
23.		Building Twitter bootstrap (alistapart.com)
		116 points by steren on Jan 17, 2012 \| 23 comments
24.		More Water than Ever Found on the Moon (time.com)
		112 points by switz on Jan 17, 2012 \| 42 comments
25.		Wozniak praising Android over iPhone limitations (reghardware.com)
		111 points by larrydag on Jan 17, 2012 \| 64 comments
26.		The Anonymous User Pattern (roshfu.com)
		110 points by choxi on Jan 17, 2012 \| 21 comments
27.		World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment (internetsociety.org)
		102 points by danyork on Jan 17, 2012 \| 41 comments
28.		Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (javacodegeeks.com)
		104 points by RiaDro on Jan 17, 2012 \| 93 comments
29.		Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow (pandodaily.com)
		99 points by redditmigrant on Jan 17, 2012 \| 25 comments
30.		Codecademy Partners With The White House (codecademy.com)
		93 points by bproper on Jan 17, 2012 \| 56 comments
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