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1.		A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students (reddit.com)
		414 points by jimmyjim on Jan 5, 2012 \| 103 comments
2.		Nokia Maps 3D (WebGL) (nokia.com)
		271 points by jasondavies on Jan 5, 2012 \| 90 comments
3.		Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law (torrentfreak.com)
		239 points by Hates_ on Jan 5, 2012 \| 38 comments
4.		Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews (reddit.com)
		251 points by raldi on Jan 5, 2012 \| 159 comments
5.		The Future of CouchDB (damienkatz.net)
		247 points by badcarl on Jan 5, 2012 \| 91 comments
6.		Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”? (techcrunch.com)
		245 points by jnuss on Jan 5, 2012 \| 203 comments
7.		California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks (slashdot.org)
		235 points by llambda on Jan 5, 2012 \| 49 comments
8.		App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities (groups.google.com)
		221 points by branola on Jan 5, 2012 \| 141 comments
9.		Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA (talkincloud.com)
		205 points by SRSimko on Jan 5, 2012 \| 60 comments
10.		Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right (nytimes.com)
		176 points by rdp on Jan 5, 2012 \| 96 comments
11.		It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly (techdirt.com)
		171 points by GBiT on Jan 5, 2012 \| 106 comments
12.		Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease (heraldonline.com)
		164 points by edw519 on Jan 5, 2012 \| 88 comments
13.		Ask HN: Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what?
		151 points by dangrover on Jan 5, 2012 \| 72 comments
14.		Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism (bbc.co.uk)
		141 points by antoviaque on Jan 5, 2012 \| 44 comments
15.		The Future of Apache CouchDB (cloudant.com)
		137 points by jashkenas on Jan 5, 2012 \| 18 comments
16.		Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store (burningrobot.com)
		135 points by jwhelan on Jan 5, 2012 \| 60 comments
17.		What's new in Linux 3.2 (h-online.com)
		130 points by codepope on Jan 5, 2012 \| 20 comments
18.		Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot (rackspace.com)
		120 points by pors on Jan 5, 2012 \| 6 comments
19.		Why I Won't Hire You (golemtechnologies.com)
		111 points by lovelyLaney on Jan 5, 2012 \| 124 comments
20.		Strace - The Sysadmin's Microscope (oracle.com)
		109 points by epenn on Jan 5, 2012 \| 24 comments
21.		E-books Are Not That Easy (whattofix.com)
		106 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 5, 2012 \| 82 comments
22.		NASA’s open source projects (nasa.gov)
		102 points by rohitarondekar on Jan 5, 2012 \| 18 comments
23.		Interview Programming Problems Done Right (cforcoding.com)
		92 points by cletus on Jan 5, 2012 \| 79 comments
24.		Ask HN: What's your experience with remote working? as employees/employers?
		89 points by fgblanch on Jan 5, 2012 \| 99 comments
25.		What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit? (edge.org)
		87 points by diego on Jan 5, 2012 \| 53 comments
26.		Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture (nytimes.com)
		86 points by zwieback on Jan 5, 2012 \| 63 comments
27.		SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today (belshe.com)
		82 points by silvio on Jan 5, 2012 \| 27 comments
28.		Blogging for Hackers (alexn.org)
		82 points by bad_user on Jan 5, 2012 \| 37 comments
29.		HBO to Netflix: We’re taking our ball & going home (venturebeat.com)
		81 points by timjahn on Jan 5, 2012 \| 87 comments
30.		Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 additions, 15,896 deletions) (github.com/joyent)
		79 points by jashkenas on Jan 5, 2012 \| 46 comments
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