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1.		Google's Kenyan ripoff? (boingboing.net)
		457 points by Chirag on Jan 13, 2012 \| 99 comments
2.		Google responds to the Mocality blog post (plus.google.com)
		380 points by thehodge on Jan 13, 2012 \| 127 comments
3.		My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought (amandapeyton.com)
		344 points by inmygarage on Jan 13, 2012 \| 118 comments
4.		DuckDuckGo gets a new look (duckduckgo.com)
		331 points by edwardy20 on Jan 13, 2012 \| 142 comments
5.		New York City gets a Software Engineering High School (joelonsoftware.com)
		329 points by apress on Jan 13, 2012 \| 122 comments
6.		Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation (notch.tumblr.com)
		298 points by ekosz on Jan 13, 2012 \| 195 comments
7.		Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 (paulgraham.com)
		293 points by anateus on Jan 13, 2012 \| 62 comments
8.		Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds (rodneyfolz.com)
		289 points by folz on Jan 13, 2012 \| 154 comments
9.		Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget (alltop.com)
		288 points by pud on Jan 13, 2012 \| 103 comments
10.		Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA (gigaom.com)
		253 points by ukdm on Jan 13, 2012 \| 27 comments
11.		Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices (softwarefreedom.org)
		254 points by zoowar on Jan 13, 2012 \| 131 comments
12.		Twitter Bootstrap Generator (martinbean.co.uk)
		247 points by bravolima on Jan 13, 2012 \| 48 comments
13.		The Rise of the New Groupthink (nytimes.com)
		242 points by user02138 on Jan 13, 2012 \| 80 comments
14.		What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature (stephenjdubner.com)
		199 points by adam on Jan 13, 2012 \| 42 comments
15.		How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days (justinvincent.com)
		186 points by jv22222 on Jan 13, 2012 \| 59 comments
16.		How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month (eddychan.com)
		156 points by eddy_chan on Jan 13, 2012 \| 55 comments
17.		How I got into MIT when I was 14 (laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com)
		153 points by LDTeslaImmortal on Jan 13, 2012 \| 105 comments
18.		Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout (wikipediablackout.com)
		143 points by yanowitz on Jan 13, 2012 \| 24 comments
19.		The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (codinghorror.com)
		130 points by gavinballard on Jan 13, 2012 \| 85 comments
20.		Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django? (djangohire.com)
		125 points by plinkplonk on Jan 13, 2012 \| 59 comments
21.		DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents (cnet.com)
		121 points by phreeza on Jan 13, 2012 \| 30 comments
22.		Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed
		117 points by marbletiles on Jan 13, 2012 \| 30 comments
23.		How Copyright Industries Con Congress (cato-at-liberty.org)
		115 points by ops7eng5 on Jan 13, 2012 \| 8 comments
24.		My Recent Experience with PayPal Customer Service. (christianowens.com)
		114 points by chrowe on Jan 13, 2012 \| 27 comments
25.		The World is Full of Real People (jumpstartlab.com)
		106 points by j3 on Jan 13, 2012 \| 63 comments
26.		Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18 (nytm.org)
		105 points by MattRogish on Jan 13, 2012 \| 20 comments
27.		Codemasters are on the scrounge (jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com)
		105 points by jheriko on Jan 13, 2012 \| 52 comments
28.		Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images (gethopper.com)
		104 points by endtwist on Jan 13, 2012 \| 76 comments
29.		My Recent Nine Months as an Indie Developer (eiswuxe.de)
		106 points by potomak on Jan 13, 2012 \| 40 comments
30.		My thoughts on why I will not call my business a startup again (pakorabutty.tumblr.com)
		90 points by ayusaf on Jan 13, 2012 \| 50 comments
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