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1.		Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early (nanex.net)
		526 points by HockeyPlayer on Jan 31, 2013 \| 282 comments
2.		What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup (kalzumeus.com)
		401 points by timcraft on Jan 31, 2013 \| 176 comments
3.		Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
		398 points by gnosis on Jan 31, 2013 \| 73 comments
4.		That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer (nytimes.com)
		371 points by danso on Jan 31, 2013 \| 245 comments
5.		Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers (nytimes.com)
		315 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 31, 2013 \| 178 comments
6.		Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda (theatlantic.com)
		241 points by Libertatea on Jan 31, 2013 \| 114 comments
7.		Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter (twitter.github.com)
		236 points by uggedal on Jan 31, 2013 \| 83 comments
8.		Trello uses an icon font and so can you (fogcreek.com)
		211 points by mxk on Jan 31, 2013 \| 41 comments
9.		The stupid cookie law is dead at last (silktide.com)
		200 points by silktide on Jan 31, 2013 \| 66 comments
10.		We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		200 points by bcn on Jan 31, 2013 \| 176 comments
11.		Amazon's homepage was down (amazon.com)
		199 points by nbashaw on Jan 31, 2013 \| 189 comments
12.		Starting a Bike Shop (priceonomics.com)
		193 points by rohin on Jan 31, 2013 \| 65 comments
13.		Should we talk about the fact that founder Jody Sherman didn't just die? (launch.co)
		186 points by danboarder on Jan 31, 2013 \| 128 comments
14.		The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF (w3techs.com)
		181 points by MarionG on Jan 31, 2013 \| 106 comments
15.		School of Haskell Goes Beta (fpcomplete.com)
		179 points by dons on Jan 31, 2013 \| 69 comments
16.		The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded (linkedin.com)
		170 points by jennichen on Jan 31, 2013 \| 158 comments
17.		JSON Editor Online (jsoneditoronline.org)
		162 points by benackles on Jan 31, 2013 \| 47 comments
18.		Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key (izs.me)
		155 points by ColinWright on Jan 31, 2013 \| 46 comments
19.		Draft. Version control for writing (ninjasandrobots.com)
		136 points by revorad on Jan 31, 2013 \| 58 comments
20.		Bitcoin hits year-high of $20 (bitcoincharts.com)
		132 points by redegg on Jan 31, 2013 \| 68 comments
21.		UK High Court Finds Programming Languages Uncopyrightable (bailii.org)
		128 points by ig1 on Jan 31, 2013 \| 27 comments
22.		How the U.S. Military Uses IRC to Wage War (publicintelligence.net)
		127 points by Jaigus on Jan 31, 2013 \| 76 comments
23.		Mark Cuban Is Endowing A Chair To ‘Eliminate Stupid Patents’ (techcrunch.com)
		120 points by isalmon on Jan 31, 2013 \| 39 comments
24.		Testing made easier in Internet Explorer (modern.ie)
		119 points by bahularora on Jan 31, 2013 \| 47 comments
25.		Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill (consumerist.com)
		119 points by cjaredrun on Jan 31, 2013 \| 64 comments
26.		Cache Rules Everything Around Me (iainkfraser.blogspot.co.uk)
		117 points by scaramanga on Jan 31, 2013 \| 26 comments
27.		White House Considers Joining Publishers To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities (techdirt.com)
		116 points by sethbannon on Jan 31, 2013 \| 39 comments
28.		Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB (rethinkdb.com)
		116 points by coffeemug on Jan 31, 2013 \| 83 comments
29.		Show HN: I built an Android game (play.google.com)
		114 points by grantland on Jan 31, 2013 \| 62 comments
30.		Farewell to Regular Web Development Approaches (devo.ps)
		106 points by hunvreus on Jan 31, 2013 \| 91 comments
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