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1.
Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising (tpdsaa.tumblr.com)
300 points by Byliner on Jan 14, 2011 | 57 comments
2.
Git Immersion (gitimmersion.com)
247 points by tortilla on Jan 14, 2011 | 38 comments
3.
US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree (google.com)
234 points by lotusleaf1987 on Jan 14, 2011 | 59 comments
4.
Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August (zdnet.com)
202 points by AndrewWarner on Jan 14, 2011 | 41 comments
5.
Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack) (umich.edu)
183 points by dholowiski on Jan 14, 2011 | 40 comments
6.
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period (slate.com)
167 points by apress on Jan 14, 2011 | 167 comments
7.
"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems." (pozorvlak.livejournal.com)
147 points by jerf on Jan 14, 2011 | 49 comments
8.
Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account (wsj.com)
150 points by garply on Jan 14, 2011 | 110 comments
9.
The most mysterious Google ranking ever... (jamespanderson.tumblr.com)
149 points by ry0ohki on Jan 14, 2011 | 50 comments
10.
Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (chromium.org)
138 points by twapi on Jan 14, 2011 | 120 comments
11.
W3Fools - A W3Schools Intervention (w3fools.com)
135 points by infdaze on Jan 14, 2011 | 55 comments
12.
Why American Mothers are Superior (thejuliagroup.com)
118 points by credo on Jan 14, 2011 | 65 comments
13.
Why Indian Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program (indianstartupgyaan.wordpress.com)
116 points by rohitarondekar on Jan 14, 2011 | 85 comments
14.
Using Python and heat maps to determine the best place to aim on a dart board (thevirtuosi.blogspot.com)
111 points by middlegeek on Jan 14, 2011 | 10 comments
15.
MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful (in under 30 minutes) (cloudant.com)
104 points by cloudant on Jan 14, 2011 | 12 comments
16.
How to Buy an iPhone at the Worst Possible Time (designdare.com)
97 points by shawndumas on Jan 14, 2011 | 72 comments
17.
Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head (non-linear-response.blogspot.com)
95 points by varjag on Jan 14, 2011 | 38 comments
18.
How to win with an online store (hint: don't sell things available on Amazon) (gettingmoreawesome.com)
94 points by rishi on Jan 14, 2011 | 23 comments
19.
Knuth TAOCP, Volume 4A Arrives. Pre-Order Your Copy (informit.com)
85 points by yarapavan on Jan 14, 2011 | 43 comments
20.
Three Design Hacks from Apple (measuringmeasures.com)
87 points by fogus on Jan 14, 2011 | 42 comments
21.
Touch Trigonometry - a visual representation of the trig functions (touchtrigonometry.org)
84 points by redthrowaway on Jan 14, 2011 | 15 comments
22.
How Two Shoe Enthusiasts With No Programming Experience Built An iPhone App (beyondthepedway.com)
76 points by timjahn on Jan 14, 2011 | 37 comments
23.
Stolen laptop contains cancer research data (cnet.com)
74 points by lotusleaf1987 on Jan 14, 2011 | 79 comments
24.
Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not" (infoq.com)
73 points by puredanger on Jan 14, 2011 | 21 comments
25.
LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service (techflash.com)
79 points by cwan on Jan 14, 2011 | 27 comments
26.
Look Around You - Maths (video.google.com)
71 points by elptacek on Jan 14, 2011 | 17 comments
27.
Corona game from 14-year-old reaches no 1, passes Angry Birds (anscamobile.com)
68 points by rlander on Jan 14, 2011 | 28 comments
28.
2010 Color Trends (colourlovers.com)
63 points by jamesbritt on Jan 14, 2011 | 19 comments
29.
"Should I still learn Java?" Answered: Yes. (beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
61 points by Garbage on Jan 14, 2011 | 107 comments
30.
Seed Stage Valuation Guide (jordancooper.wordpress.com)
60 points by Mistone on Jan 14, 2011 | 6 comments

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