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1.		DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco) (wired.com)
		334 points by woodrow on Jan 20, 2011 \| 213 comments
2.		Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes (donothingfor2minutes.com)
		320 points by christophe971 on Jan 20, 2011 \| 205 comments
3.		How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop (restbackup.com)
		286 points by mleonhard on Jan 20, 2011 \| 88 comments
4.		Learning from Twitter (ejohn.org)
		209 points by flapjack on Jan 20, 2011 \| 36 comments
5.		Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?
		184 points by fredoliveira on Jan 20, 2011 \| 118 comments
6.		What happened to the 11 employees of Microsoft in the 1978 photo (snopes.com)
		175 points by Andrew-Dufresne on Jan 20, 2011 \| 40 comments
7.		Apple’s diabolical plan to screw your iPhone (ifixit.com)
		161 points by kgarten on Jan 20, 2011 \| 86 comments
8.		The miserable programmer paradox (garlicsim.org)
		154 points by cool-RR on Jan 20, 2011 \| 65 comments
9.		Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online (techcrunch.com)
		151 points by bjonathan on Jan 20, 2011 \| 55 comments
10.		A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world (switched.com)
		139 points by rkwz on Jan 20, 2011 \| 84 comments
11.		Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell (newscientist.com)
		136 points by jonknee on Jan 20, 2011 \| 19 comments
12.		Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (engadget.com)
		121 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2011 \| 51 comments
13.		JsFiddle: a REPL for web development (jsfiddle.net)
		116 points by mustpax on Jan 20, 2011 \| 24 comments
14.		To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test (nytimes.com)
		112 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2011 \| 34 comments
15.		Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months (pivotallabs.com)
		115 points by cap10morgan on Jan 20, 2011 \| 41 comments
16.		WePay just built a new feature inspired by and for redditors (reddit.com)
		101 points by jmintz on Jan 20, 2011 \| 24 comments
17.		Maze Generation: Wilson's algorithm (jamisbuck.org)
		101 points by duck on Jan 20, 2011 \| 11 comments
18.		LivingSocial Hacked (deepgreencrystals.com)
		92 points by dknecht on Jan 20, 2011 \| 28 comments
19.		Hiring Front-End Engineers (computedstyle.com)
		90 points by martian on Jan 20, 2011 \| 52 comments
20.		PadMapper Apartment Search (padmapper.com)
		89 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2011 \| 42 comments
21.		Ask HN: Share your experience with a non YC or Techstars incubator.
		88 points by redrory on Jan 20, 2011 \| 31 comments
22.		Google Announces 2010 Results and Management Changes (investor.google.com)
		74 points by andre3k1 on Jan 20, 2011 \| 11 comments
23.		Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser. (kindleworld.blogspot.com)
		74 points by typester on Jan 20, 2011 \| 33 comments
24.		BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol (torrentfreak.com)
		72 points by Uncle_Sam on Jan 20, 2011 \| 22 comments
25.		Collection of mathematics blogs (mathblogging.org)
		69 points by timf on Jan 20, 2011 \| 6 comments
26.		About that slowness on Twitter… (dustindiaz.com)
		61 points by rafaelc on Jan 20, 2011 \| 9 comments
27.		Zaphod - JavaScript written in JavaScript (mozillalabs.com)
		57 points by j_baker on Jan 20, 2011 \| 10 comments
28.		Building a 4 bit computer from Transistors (waitingforfriday.com)
		56 points by dholowiski on Jan 20, 2011 \| 15 comments
29.		LOLCats... Yes, you can haz $30m (wsj.com)
		52 points by phunel on Jan 20, 2011 \| 24 comments
30.		Show HN: New Punchd website (like foursquare for the masses) (getpunchd.com)
		52 points by cloudwalking on Jan 20, 2011 \| 47 comments
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