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1.		Abolish the Department of Homeland Security (schneier.com)
		332 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 \| 54 comments
2.		Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy (bemmu.posterous.com)
		297 points by bemmu on Jan 14, 2012 \| 126 comments
3.		The White House's Response to SOPA (whitehouse.gov)
		290 points by sim0n on Jan 14, 2012 \| 148 comments
4.		Search: .lenght - Github (github.com/search)
		262 points by uyhayuy on Jan 14, 2012 \| 102 comments
5.		British student may be extradited to US on copyright charges (boingboing.net)
		223 points by ubasu on Jan 14, 2012 \| 79 comments
6.		This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym (theatlantic.com)
		218 points by waitwhat on Jan 14, 2012 \| 121 comments
7.		Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed (fastcompany.com)
		189 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 \| 21 comments
8.		Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge (startssl.com)
		180 points by vibrant on Jan 14, 2012 \| 83 comments
9.		Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle (ocks.org)
		176 points by mbostock on Jan 14, 2012 \| 37 comments
10.		What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right (rondam.blogspot.com)
		174 points by lisper on Jan 14, 2012 \| 78 comments
11.		US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison (torrentfreak.com)
		158 points by nicki_easy on Jan 14, 2012 \| 154 comments
12.		Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA (arstechnica.com)
		152 points by chaosmachine on Jan 14, 2012 \| 35 comments
13.		PyPy: Transactional Memory (II) (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		122 points by megaman821 on Jan 14, 2012 \| 39 comments
14.		Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google (latimes.com)
		104 points by benjlang on Jan 14, 2012 \| 96 comments
15.		Public datasets on AWS (amazon.com)
		99 points by fs111 on Jan 14, 2012 \| 17 comments
16.		The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read (arstechnica.com)
		92 points by zacharypinter on Jan 14, 2012 \| 4 comments
17.		Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty (corte.si)
		91 points by llambda on Jan 14, 2012 \| 39 comments
18.		Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not (andrewdumont.me)
		89 points by andrewdumont on Jan 14, 2012 \| 71 comments
19.		The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form (physics.info)
		81 points by carlos on Jan 14, 2012 \| 37 comments
20.		Tablets take waiting out of restaurants: E la Carte on the cover of SF Chronicle (sfgate.com)
		76 points by fredliu on Jan 14, 2012 \| 51 comments
21.		The impact of language choice on github projects (corte.si)
		72 points by llambda on Jan 14, 2012 \| 32 comments
22.		SOPA Blackout participating sites (geeqer.com)
		65 points by zaidrahman on Jan 14, 2012 \| 11 comments
23.		RetroShare: secure communications with friends (sourceforge.net)
		63 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 \| 20 comments
24.		SimpleGeo customers: Move your data to Geoloqi with one command (github.com/geoloqi)
		54 points by kyledrake on Jan 14, 2012 \| 9 comments
25.		Why do most programmers work so hard at pretending that they’re not doing math? (richardminerich.com)
		53 points by plinkplonk on Jan 14, 2012 \| 69 comments
26.		Soon cell towers will start following you (gigaom.com)
		52 points by michaporat on Jan 14, 2012 \| 30 comments
27.		OK, MG, I Take It Back (techcrunch.com)
		51 points by playhard on Jan 14, 2012 \| 13 comments
28.		Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts (davidpashley.com)
		51 points by Feanim on Jan 14, 2012 \| 21 comments
29.		Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones (arstechnica.com)
		45 points by eplanit on Jan 14, 2012 \| 29 comments
30.		India OKs censoring Facebook, Google, Microsoft, YouTube (zdnet.com)
		43 points by Slimy on Jan 14, 2012 \| 15 comments
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