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1.
Always pay your web developers (utilitybidder.co.uk)
299 points by twapi on Jan 23, 2011 | 105 comments
2.
eBooks compiled from top StackOverflow topics/answers (hewgill.com)
207 points by Tycho on Jan 23, 2011 | 36 comments
3.
Humans.txt, like robots.txt, but for humans. (humanstxt.org)
192 points by whalesalad on Jan 23, 2011 | 43 comments
4.
ITerm 2 (sites.google.com)
185 points by xtacy on Jan 23, 2011 | 80 comments
5.
Using Python generators for real work [pdf] (dabeaz.com)
154 points by conesus on Jan 23, 2011 | 20 comments
6.
Life as a Second Class Citizen of the Web (oonwoye.com)
140 points by OoTheNigerian on Jan 23, 2011 | 99 comments
7.
Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype (techcrunch.com)
132 points by bretpiatt on Jan 23, 2011 | 79 comments
8.
Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki (newsgrange.com)
126 points by sharescribe on Jan 23, 2011 | 49 comments
9.
How I almost killed Facebook (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
119 points by wslh on Jan 23, 2011 | 16 comments
10.
20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
117 points by joshfraser on Jan 23, 2011 | 27 comments
11.
Why you should read academic papers (rafaelcorrales.com)
110 points by rafaelc on Jan 23, 2011 | 31 comments
12.
Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me (thenextweb.com)
108 points by dwynings on Jan 23, 2011 | 64 comments
13.
Show HN: Fqwiki - Qwiki cloned with a single HTML file (banksytheluckystiff.github.com)
96 points by banksy on Jan 23, 2011 | 14 comments
14.
Sean Parker: "The Social Network" is a complete work of fiction (thenextweb.com)
95 points by rblion on Jan 23, 2011 | 51 comments
15.
Mathematician, Artist, Maker, I find myself looking for a job... (maxwelldemon.com)
94 points by Gelada on Jan 23, 2011 | 36 comments
16.
Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
83 points by dpatru on Jan 23, 2011 | 15 comments
17.
Hacking your life through data collection and analysis
69 points by SimonEschbach on Jan 23, 2011 | 30 comments
18.
Dungeons & Dragons ruled a threat to prison security (abovethelaw.com)
68 points by wybo on Jan 23, 2011 | 60 comments
19.
How debuggers work: Part 1 (thegreenplace.net)
66 points by yan on Jan 23, 2011 | 28 comments
20.
Why I Stuck With Perl (perl.org)
66 points by nkurz on Jan 23, 2011 | 27 comments
21.
Ask HN: How to credibly demonstrate self-taught skills/knowledge?
67 points by jvillal on Jan 23, 2011 | 28 comments
22.
Moving from Java to Scala - One year later... (danmachine.com)
64 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 23, 2011 | 11 comments
23.
How Video Cards Work (x.org)
64 points by macco on Jan 23, 2011 | 7 comments
24.
The IRS Targets Income Tricks (wsj.com)
65 points by wglb on Jan 23, 2011 | 66 comments
25.
10x Productivity Myths: Where’s the 10x Difference in Compensation? (construx.com)
62 points by dangoldin on Jan 23, 2011 | 34 comments
26.
Google May Let Users Personally Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam (searchengineland.com)
61 points by w1ntermute on Jan 23, 2011 | 42 comments
27.
TestFlight: iOS beta testing on the fly (testflightapp.com)
60 points by bjonathan on Jan 23, 2011 | 17 comments
28.
Pro scraping with Node.JS (github.com/chriso)
60 points by chrisohara on Jan 23, 2011 | 18 comments
29.
HIV is powered by RNA (rochester.edu)
59 points by cloudwalking on Jan 23, 2011 | 15 comments
30.
How I sold my company to Google ($80million) (thenextweb.com)
54 points by sinzone on Jan 23, 2011 | 18 comments

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