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1.		MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks (techdirt.com)
		514 points by nextparadigms on Jan 21, 2012 \| 105 comments
2.		How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (nytimes.com)
		446 points by wallflower on Jan 21, 2012 \| 307 comments
3.		Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood (nytimes.com)
		366 points by invisiblefunnel on Jan 21, 2012 \| 91 comments
4.		Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall (gowers.wordpress.com)
		287 points by randomwalker on Jan 21, 2012 \| 43 comments
5.		Can we kill the music business too? (audiosearch.blogspot.com)
		196 points by jamesgagan on Jan 21, 2012 \| 70 comments
6.		How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force (slate.com)
		187 points by robg on Jan 21, 2012 \| 84 comments
7.		We are sorry to inform you (ufl.edu)
		185 points by iamabhi9 on Jan 21, 2012 \| 52 comments
8.		The Secret Document That Transformed China (npr.org)
		172 points by nantes on Jan 21, 2012 \| 53 comments
9.		Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA (plus.google.com)
		170 points by pawelwentpawel on Jan 21, 2012 \| 25 comments
10.		Explaining Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem to a Twelve Year Old (reddit.com)
		156 points by awolf on Jan 21, 2012 \| 34 comments
11.		Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software (techweekeurope.co.uk)
		130 points by jrabone on Jan 21, 2012 \| 17 comments
12.		Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter (hackaday.com)
		125 points by bcl on Jan 21, 2012 \| 27 comments
13.		Investigate Dodd and the MPAA for bribery after public threats to congress (wh.gov)
		118 points by Exoseq on Jan 21, 2012 \| 12 comments
14.		Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists (technologyreview.com)
		110 points by pg on Jan 21, 2012 \| 66 comments
15.		Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined (kickstarter.com)
		113 points by alexobenauer on Jan 21, 2012 \| 69 comments
16.		Y Combinator’s Short-sighted War Against Hollywood (benparr.com)
		106 points by brackin on Jan 21, 2012 \| 68 comments
17.		I don't owe you scala-tools.org (goodstuff.im)
		102 points by automagical on Jan 21, 2012 \| 74 comments
18.		WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones (hsivonen.iki.fi)
		94 points by stesch on Jan 21, 2012 \| 55 comments
19.		Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple (simple-talk.com)
		95 points by gruseom on Jan 21, 2012 \| 3 comments
20.		The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources (batsov.com)
		90 points by octopus on Jan 21, 2012 \| 6 comments
21.		Google has open-sourced SkyMap (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		88 points by kefs on Jan 21, 2012 \| 12 comments
22.		Jobs was told anti-poaching idea likely illegal (reuters.com)
		84 points by FluidDjango on Jan 21, 2012 \| 51 comments
23.		Pencil - Sketching and Prototyping with Firefox (evolus.vn)
		82 points by toni on Jan 21, 2012 \| 13 comments
24.		Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?
		77 points by NadaAldahleh on Jan 21, 2012 \| 46 comments
25.		The Edge of HTML5 (html5-demos.appspot.com)
		74 points by tilt on Jan 21, 2012 \| 24 comments
26.		Zynga 'losing $150 on every new paying customer' (develop-online.net)
		73 points by evo_9 on Jan 21, 2012 \| 39 comments
27.		C++11 will be introduced by B.Stroustrup at Microsoft Event (msdn.com)
		72 points by alpb on Jan 21, 2012 \| 20 comments
28.		Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend? (torrentfreak.com)
		70 points by llambda on Jan 21, 2012 \| 20 comments
29.		Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released (hackeducation.com)
		68 points by tilt on Jan 21, 2012 \| 2 comments
30.		We, the people, stopped SOPA/PIPA -- Let's remember that (codylittlewood.com)
		69 points by CodyLittlewood on Jan 21, 2012 \| 10 comments
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