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1.
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (vice.com)
389 points by nextparadigms on Dec 16, 2011 | 77 comments
2.
Famous Last Words by Bosses I've Had (edweissman.com)
315 points by edw519 on Dec 16, 2011 | 182 comments
3.
How to stop SOPA: Don't build it. (greaterdebater.com)
299 points by imgabe on Dec 16, 2011 | 152 comments
4.
How Super Mario Bros. 3 was made (chrismcovell.com)
293 points by bpierre on Dec 16, 2011 | 29 comments
5.
Design is Horseshit (yongfook.com)
283 points by thesethings on Dec 16, 2011 | 141 comments
6.
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress (eff.org)
276 points by ryeguy_24 on Dec 16, 2011 | 44 comments
7.
In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites (reddit.com)
270 points by RyanMcGreal on Dec 16, 2011 | 133 comments
8.
SOPA Hearings Delayed, 140,000 Americans watched the hearings (gigaom.com)
269 points by kposehn on Dec 16, 2011 | 57 comments
9.
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers (avichal.com)
235 points by yinyinwu on Dec 16, 2011 | 44 comments
10.
Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers (yanpritzker.com)
208 points by skwp on Dec 16, 2011 | 33 comments
11.
Fly the Airplane (dcurt.is)
172 points by drewblaisdell on Dec 16, 2011 | 84 comments
12.
Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live (github.com/mozilla)
167 points by waterside81 on Dec 16, 2011 | 89 comments
13.
The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) (learncodethehardway.org)
165 points by drewda on Dec 16, 2011 | 27 comments
14.
How big are PHP arrays (and values) really? (nikic.github.com)
150 points by there on Dec 16, 2011 | 86 comments
15.
UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own (arstechnica.com)
143 points by binarybits on Dec 16, 2011 | 54 comments
16.
SOPA Vote Delayed (wired.com)
141 points by nextparadigms on Dec 16, 2011 | 15 comments
17.
Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the web browsers? (stackoverflow.com)
122 points by jsnk on Dec 16, 2011 | 141 comments
18.
Sprint orders all OEMs to strip Carrier IQ from their hardware (geek.com)
120 points by 11031a on Dec 16, 2011 | 12 comments
19.
Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate (cbsnews.com)
109 points by boredguy8 on Dec 16, 2011 | 84 comments
20.
MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl (commoncrawl.org)
109 points by Aloisius on Dec 16, 2011 | 26 comments
21.
Recipes with Backbone.js (recipeswithbackbone.com)
98 points by ngauthier on Dec 16, 2011 | 45 comments
22.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren doing a SOPA-related AMA on Reddit (reddit.com)
94 points by mcrittenden on Dec 16, 2011 | 3 comments
23.
SQL Server App Store Reviews (If SQL Server were an app:) (brentozar.com)
86 points by progga on Dec 16, 2011 | 17 comments
24.
Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead (pcmag.com)
82 points by adeelarshad82 on Dec 16, 2011 | 52 comments
25.
Physics discoveries of 2011 (physicsworld.com)
80 points by cldwalker on Dec 16, 2011 | 2 comments
26.
The Checklist (2007) (newyorker.com)
78 points by bearwithclaws on Dec 16, 2011 | 25 comments
27.
Why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell (sciencedaily.com)
77 points by llambda on Dec 16, 2011 | 6 comments
28.
Google Insights: HN vs. Reddit vs. Digg (google.com)
71 points by solipsist on Dec 16, 2011 | 44 comments
29.
Grit & Determination (adamsmith.cc)
69 points by adamsmith on Dec 16, 2011 | 15 comments
30.
Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus (betabeat.com)
69 points by flahertyiv on Dec 16, 2011 | 49 comments

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