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1.		How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? (reason.com)
		370 points by johno215 on Jan 27, 2012 \| 180 comments
2.		What I Learned From Opening a Bookstore (salon.com)
		302 points by fogus on Jan 27, 2012 \| 68 comments
3.		Facebook to File for IPO Next Week (mashable.com)
		282 points by james-fend on Jan 27, 2012 \| 135 comments
4.		This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now (37signals.com)
		231 points by wlll on Jan 27, 2012 \| 129 comments
5.		Graphene: The perfect water filter (extremetech.com)
		204 points by ukdm on Jan 27, 2012 \| 40 comments
6.		Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats (codinghorror.com)
		201 points by joeyespo on Jan 27, 2012 \| 129 comments
7.		How I Develop Things and Why (kennethreitz.com)
		202 points by jorde on Jan 27, 2012 \| 33 comments
8.		Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
		187 points by martinpannier on Jan 27, 2012 \| 73 comments
9.		How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify (webstartup.me)
		184 points by james-fend on Jan 27, 2012 \| 80 comments
10.		PyPy funded to begin support for Python 3 and Numpy (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		178 points by synparb on Jan 27, 2012 \| 30 comments
11.		On switching to Arch Linux (mikethecoder.com)
		168 points by mcrittenden on Jan 27, 2012 \| 168 comments
12.		Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 (petapixel.com)
		167 points by McKittrick on Jan 27, 2012 \| 40 comments
13.		Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web (kickstarter.com)
		165 points by DamonOehlman on Jan 27, 2012 \| 66 comments
14.		Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs (geekwire.com)
		142 points by krishnasun on Jan 27, 2012 \| 115 comments
15.		Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System (techcrunch.com)
		143 points by allangrant on Jan 27, 2012 \| 82 comments
16.		MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files (torrentfreak.com)
		135 points by joeyespo on Jan 27, 2012 \| 58 comments
17.		Welcome Geoff (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		133 points by pg on Jan 27, 2012 \| 21 comments
18.		The problem with startups is that they can’t solve the big problems. (remarkedly.com)
		130 points by krausejj on Jan 27, 2012 \| 102 comments
19.		Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding (37signals.com)
		127 points by jlangenauer on Jan 27, 2012 \| 54 comments
20.		Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is. (thenextweb.com)
		104 points by evo_9 on Jan 27, 2012 \| 34 comments
21.		A Tale of a Miserable Product Launch (stangeek.com)
		103 points by stangeek on Jan 27, 2012 \| 66 comments
22.		The best way to learn iOS Programming... well its working for me (plus.google.com)
		100 points by kentf on Jan 27, 2012 \| 41 comments
23.		Chapter 6 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition is out ("Modeling users") (railstutorial.org)
		93 points by mhartl on Jan 27, 2012 \| 22 comments
24.		Roy: Small functional language that compiles to JavaScript (github.com/pufuwozu)
		91 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 27, 2012 \| 32 comments
25.		Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer (bellbot.com)
		85 points by pud on Jan 27, 2012 \| 50 comments
26.		Scott Aaronson on Elsevier (scottaaronson.com)
		84 points by cs702 on Jan 27, 2012 \| 21 comments
27.		The WHY of WAT - understanding why 'JavaScript is Crazy' (caplin.com)
		82 points by amirhhz on Jan 27, 2012 \| 52 comments
28.		Apple Should Buy Hollywood (techcrunch.com)
		82 points by senjamin on Jan 27, 2012 \| 59 comments
29.		Show HN: Glider, a better email client (glider.io)
		81 points by cj on Jan 27, 2012 \| 53 comments
30.		Pi Is Wrong (utah.edu)
		78 points by llambda on Jan 27, 2012 \| 64 comments
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