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1.
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier (wired.com)
302 points by shashashasha on Jan 28, 2011 | 89 comments
2.
Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released (sublimetext.com)
238 points by iamelgringo on Jan 28, 2011 | 145 comments
3.
Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t (wetzler.me)
207 points by sporkbomb on Jan 28, 2011 | 69 comments
4.
Views from an Egyptian (slashdot.org)
197 points by rkwz on Jan 28, 2011 | 71 comments
5.
Rare pictures of North Korea (mrlevek.com)
175 points by ldv1971 on Jan 28, 2011 | 59 comments
6.
Redis: the AK-47 of databases (flazz.me)
158 points by flazzarino on Jan 28, 2011 | 77 comments
7.
HN: I'm building a TC alternative. Will you share your startup's story with me?
157 points by g0atbutt on Jan 28, 2011 | 59 comments
8.
How the FBI raided Anonymous (arstechnica.com)
144 points by abraham on Jan 28, 2011 | 155 comments
9.
Google Translate Easter Egg (translate.google.com)
138 points by hardik988 on Jan 28, 2011 | 28 comments
10.
How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results (seomoz.org)
136 points by JoelSutherland on Jan 28, 2011 | 51 comments
11.
How Egypt Switched Off The Internet (gigaom.com)
128 points by doron on Jan 28, 2011 | 66 comments
12.
Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away" (postdesk.com)
125 points by samengland on Jan 28, 2011 | 158 comments
13.
Tell HN: Sourceforge servers compromised
121 points by sucuri2 on Jan 28, 2011 | 8 comments
14.
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo (alistapart.com)
121 points by jayliew on Jan 28, 2011 | 83 comments
15.
Egyptian Revolution Live [video] (aljazeera.net)
107 points by sprachspiel on Jan 28, 2011 | 75 comments
16.
In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks (nytimes.com)
99 points by gamble on Jan 28, 2011 | 33 comments
17.
Makin' It Rain - How Raindrop Effects Work In 2D Games (bulletproofoutlaws.com)
98 points by cal5k on Jan 28, 2011 | 27 comments
18.
Get rich quick ads from 1909 (books.google.com)
96 points by pelle on Jan 28, 2011 | 21 comments
19.
The Genius of Turing (jgc.org)
93 points by jgrahamc on Jan 28, 2011 | 23 comments
20.
Kinect is fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history (venturebeat.com)
92 points by mjfern on Jan 28, 2011 | 61 comments
21.
NoSQL at Netflix (netflix.com)
86 points by abraham on Jan 28, 2011 | 9 comments
22.
How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan or out-Sony'ed Sony (sfgate.com)
80 points by lotusleaf1987 on Jan 28, 2011 | 31 comments
23.
Three unique features of Lisp in 2010 (john.freml.in)
69 points by gnosis on Jan 28, 2011 | 39 comments
24.
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact (wired.com)
68 points by gaiusparx on Jan 28, 2011 | 39 comments
25.
An Aussie in NY (delimiter.com.au)
64 points by bhoung on Jan 28, 2011 | 29 comments
26.
The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 2) (from employee #13) (googler13.blogspot.com)
61 points by jedc on Jan 28, 2011 | 10 comments
27.
Prolog Introduction for Hackers (kuro5hin.org)
60 points by mbowcock on Jan 28, 2011 | 22 comments
28.
Kalimba - Embedly Colored Glasses for Hacker News (embed.ly)
60 points by doki_pen on Jan 28, 2011 | 29 comments
29.
Get Lanyrd conference recommendations by email (lanyrd.com)
57 points by simonw on Jan 28, 2011 | 11 comments
30.
Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on college campuses? (chronicle.com)
53 points by quinndupont on Jan 28, 2011 | 48 comments

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