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1.		Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000 (opensource.com)
		247 points by tux1968 on Jan 15, 2012 \| 73 comments
2.		Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA (msn.com)
		233 points by sethbannon on Jan 15, 2012 \| 155 comments
3.		Learn C The Hard Way (learncodethehardway.org)
		220 points by llambda on Jan 15, 2012 \| 62 comments
4.		Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA (boingboing.net)
		188 points by llambda on Jan 15, 2012 \| 24 comments
5.		Ask HN: Who's looking for employment?
		188 points by johnwall on Jan 15, 2012 \| 153 comments
6.		What Jobs Do the Top 1% Have? (nytimes.com)
		180 points by uptown on Jan 15, 2012 \| 124 comments
7.		Stop SOPA site template (zachstronaut.com)
		178 points by cjauvin on Jan 15, 2012 \| 37 comments
8.		A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering (dadgum.com)
		156 points by quanticle on Jan 15, 2012 \| 61 comments
9.		Military technology: Magic bullets (economist.com)
		146 points by robinhouston on Jan 15, 2012 \| 87 comments
10.		Poll: Do you use app hosting or run your own server?
		145 points by billpatrianakos on Jan 15, 2012 \| 109 comments
11.		Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server (github.com/phusion)
		131 points by comice on Jan 15, 2012 \| 26 comments
12.		Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring (github.com/steelthread)
		128 points by cookiestack on Jan 15, 2012 \| 10 comments
13.		Color schemes I can feel (design-seeds.com)
		124 points by aymeric on Jan 15, 2012 \| 24 comments
14.		Startup will wash your car wherever it is located (cherry.com)
		122 points by pitdesi on Jan 15, 2012 \| 95 comments
15.		Vi Illustrator (bilalquadri.com)
		119 points by googletron on Jan 15, 2012 \| 22 comments
16.		The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold (businessweek.com)
		98 points by waitwhat on Jan 15, 2012 \| 69 comments
17.		A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel (sourceforge.net)
		93 points by gioele on Jan 15, 2012 \| 22 comments
18.		Reading list for distributed systems (reiddraper.github.com)
		88 points by fs111 on Jan 15, 2012 \| 9 comments
19.		Data Science Toolkit: free-as-in-speech Natural Language Processing & Geo tools (datasciencetoolkit.org)
		84 points by nosignal on Jan 15, 2012 \| 3 comments
20.		The Big List of Game Postmortems - from indie to AAA (pixelprospector.com)
		82 points by speednoise on Jan 15, 2012 \| 8 comments
21.		Why SQL server was never ported to Unix (hal2020.com)
		79 points by progga on Jan 15, 2012 \| 47 comments
22.		CSSrefresh - Automatically Refresh CSS files (frebsite.nl)
		74 points by jenhsun on Jan 15, 2012 \| 25 comments
23.		Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?
		71 points by Andrenid on Jan 15, 2012 \| 38 comments
24.		Livestream of the PennApps hackathon demos (livestream.com)
		70 points by pulak on Jan 15, 2012 \| 16 comments
25.		Elements of Successful iPhone Games (diaryofanappdeveloper.tumblr.com)
		65 points by dunkjmcd on Jan 15, 2012 \| 18 comments
26.		Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday (reuters.com)
		64 points by jhack on Jan 15, 2012 \| 36 comments
27.		Why iCloud won't beat Dropbox and the failure of Airdrop (calepin.co)
		62 points by asselinpaul on Jan 15, 2012 \| 49 comments
28.		Linux Socket Programming By Example - broadcast example (ac.rs)
		58 points by kruhft on Jan 15, 2012 \| 4 comments
29.		Blackout your WordPress site on January 18th (github.com/chrisguitarguy)
		56 points by chrisguitarguy on Jan 15, 2012 \| 5 comments
30.		Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA (status.net)
		56 points by zoowar on Jan 15, 2012 \| 11 comments
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