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1.		The next SOPA (marco.org)
		558 points by dpkendal on Jan 20, 2012 \| 165 comments
2.		Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA (msn.com)
		416 points by aepstein on Jan 20, 2012 \| 156 comments
3.		Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload (torrentfreak.com)
		390 points by nextparadigms on Jan 20, 2012 \| 206 comments
4.		MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number (thebestpageintheuniverse.net)
		345 points by nextparadigms on Jan 20, 2012 \| 37 comments
5.		Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup. (onstartups.com)
		335 points by hartleybrody on Jan 20, 2012 \| 90 comments
6.		Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game (arstechnica.com)
		323 points by robin_reala on Jan 20, 2012 \| 55 comments
7.		SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill (mashable.com)
		227 points by melvinmt on Jan 20, 2012 \| 76 comments
8.		Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial) (yannesposito.com)
		207 points by yogsototh on Jan 20, 2012 \| 60 comments
9.		Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy (jonathancoulton.com)
		202 points by dpkendal on Jan 20, 2012 \| 56 comments
10.		Why the feds smashed Megaupload (arstechnica.com)
		198 points by evo_9 on Jan 20, 2012 \| 69 comments
11.		How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide] (jasonshen.com)
		162 points by jasonshen on Jan 20, 2012 \| 38 comments
12.		SenseiDB: Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database (senseidb.com)
		163 points by thomas11 on Jan 20, 2012 \| 39 comments
13.		Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy (expletiveinserted.com)
		152 points by ajessup on Jan 20, 2012 \| 54 comments
14.		Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed (techcrunch.com)
		144 points by llambda on Jan 20, 2012 \| 26 comments
15.		Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google (searchengineland.com)
		136 points by coupdegrace on Jan 20, 2012 \| 77 comments
16.		DOJ Didn't Need SOPA to Shutdown "rogue site" MegaUpload (venturebeat.com)
		131 points by bproper on Jan 20, 2012 \| 34 comments
17.		New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		127 points by lomegor on Jan 20, 2012 \| 107 comments
18.		Dreamhost asking users to change passwords after database breach (dreamhoststatus.com)
		124 points by hopeless on Jan 20, 2012 \| 48 comments
19.		REST worst practices (jacobian.org)
		123 points by rbanffy on Jan 20, 2012 \| 64 comments
20.		How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal) (zenhabits.net)
		116 points by yogrish on Jan 20, 2012 \| 64 comments
21.		Anonymous Takes Down FBI.gov (protestsopa.com)
		114 points by Torba on Jan 20, 2012 \| 15 comments
22.		Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2) (railstutorial.org)
		111 points by mhartl on Jan 20, 2012 \| 18 comments
23.		SICP taught in Python 3 - UC Berkeley online (eecs.berkeley.edu)
		107 points by 73ChargerFan on Jan 20, 2012 \| 25 comments
24.		MegaUpload complaint has Dropbox Implications (plus.google.com)
		105 points by vessenes on Jan 20, 2012 \| 46 comments
25.		Chrome Extension Development, By Practical Example (github.com/bcoe)
		101 points by BenjaminCoe on Jan 20, 2012 \| 10 comments
26.		Microsoft calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State (theatlantic.com)
		98 points by e1ven on Jan 20, 2012 \| 50 comments
27.		S-Expressions: The Fat-Free Alternative to JSON (shinkirou.org)
		90 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 20, 2012 \| 45 comments
28.		Mozilla Web Development doing an AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
		85 points by huntern on Jan 20, 2012
29.		Approximate Regex Matching in Python (hackerboss.com)
		83 points by coderdude on Jan 20, 2012 \| 12 comments
30.		SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now (techcrunch.com)
		83 points by aweSummer on Jan 20, 2012 \| 4 comments
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