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1.
Why Minecraft Matters (crunchgear.com)
191 points by solipsist on Jan 15, 2011 | 80 comments
2.
Top Mistakes in Behavior Change (slideshare.net)
186 points by benreyes on Jan 15, 2011 | 27 comments
3.
The Ambiguity of Open and H.264 vs. VP8 (antimatter15.com)
159 points by antimatter15 on Jan 15, 2011 | 68 comments
4.
DropQuest 2011 (dropbox.com)
116 points by ambiate on Jan 15, 2011 | 91 comments
5.
Why pi? (stanford.edu)
110 points by pibefision on Jan 15, 2011 | 28 comments
6.
Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS (jamesmolloy.co.uk)
109 points by Rusky on Jan 15, 2011 | 17 comments
7.
Fast Levenshtein distance using a Trie (stevehanov.ca)
107 points by rcfox on Jan 15, 2011 | 16 comments
8.
Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page (boingboing.net)
93 points by julian37 on Jan 15, 2011 | 70 comments
9.
RAPT: A physics-intensive HTML5 Platformer (heroku.com)
89 points by Justin_Time on Jan 15, 2011 | 18 comments
10.
HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability on reddit.com (nealpoole.com)
80 points by there on Jan 15, 2011 | 26 comments
11.
A Tale of Two Terminals: Beijing Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 (leanessays.com)
69 points by admp on Jan 15, 2011 | 33 comments
12.
Bruce Schneier: Google And Facebook's Privacy Illusion (forbes.com)
69 points by taylorbuley on Jan 15, 2011 | 20 comments
13.
10 petabytes - visualized (backblaze.com)
69 points by geekfactor on Jan 15, 2011 | 50 comments
14.
Who is Using Node.js And Why? Yammer, Bocoup, Proxlet and Yahoo (bostinnovation.com)
68 points by sliggity on Jan 15, 2011 | 48 comments
15.
Programmers think differently than non-programmers (jacquesmattheij.com)
65 points by jacquesm on Jan 15, 2011 | 75 comments
16.
Ask HN: Reasonable equity for early employees?
65 points by dfnord on Jan 15, 2011 | 19 comments
17.
One startup's journey into SEO (cam.ly)
65 points by danecjensen on Jan 15, 2011 | 24 comments
18.
Marvin Minsky on Education and Reprogramming One's Mind (media.mit.edu)
58 points by nopinsight on Jan 15, 2011 | 6 comments
19.
University of Phoenix Enrollment Down by 42% (hackeducation.com)
57 points by audreyw on Jan 15, 2011 | 47 comments
20.
Getting Started with AppHarbor – Heroku for .NET (aaronstannard.com)
58 points by friism on Jan 15, 2011 | 19 comments
21.
What the Heck is Shadow DOM? (glazkov.com)
53 points by rafaelc on Jan 15, 2011 | 18 comments
22.
Is Chess with Queen Odds a Provable Win? (arvindn.livejournal.com)
52 points by randomwalker on Jan 15, 2011 | 43 comments
23.
Wattvision (YC W09): The Tale of the Mystery Load (wattvision.com)
47 points by savrajsingh on Jan 15, 2011 | 18 comments
24.
Dear Firefox, please keep the RSS icon (scripting.com)
42 points by davewiner on Jan 15, 2011 | 41 comments
25.
Facebook Shares Hit $28.26 Per Share, That’s a $70+ Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com)
42 points by ssclafani on Jan 15, 2011 | 47 comments
26.
The Resume Is Dead (chicagosean.com)
41 points by yarapavan on Jan 15, 2011 | 35 comments
27.
IPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution (macrumors.com)
40 points by siglesias on Jan 15, 2011 | 49 comments
28.
MIT and the future of open courseware (sharing-nicely.net)
39 points by ph0rque on Jan 15, 2011 | 7 comments
29.
Build Your Own OS (from scratch) (osdever.net)
37 points by iwwr on Jan 15, 2011 | 3 comments
30.
Freedom of Information Rallies Tomorrow (Sat Jan 15) (whyweprotest.net)
35 points by ajray on Jan 15, 2011 | 1 comment

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