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1.
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark (npr.org)
489 points by tmoretti on Jan 17, 2013 | 203 comments
2.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case (wsj.com)
369 points by revorad on Jan 17, 2013 | 289 comments
3.
Our Django Book is Launched (pydanny.com)
328 points by rdegges on Jan 17, 2013 | 132 comments
4.
Handling Growth with Postgres (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
305 points by mikeyk on Jan 17, 2013 | 83 comments
5.
I sent a balloon up to capture 360x180 degree imagery/video from 100K feet (robotrising.org)
252 points by RobotCaleb on Jan 17, 2013 | 39 comments
6.
Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose (whitehouse.gov)
220 points by mdesq on Jan 17, 2013 | 87 comments
7.
Delivery for Mr. Assange (twitter.com/bitnk)
211 points by state on Jan 17, 2013 | 82 comments
8.
SSH client in Google Chrome (chrome.google.com)
207 points by Garbage on Jan 17, 2013 | 162 comments
9.
Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" (damienkatz.net)
201 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 17, 2013 | 150 comments
10.
Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC (apc.io)
165 points by matthewbadeau on Jan 17, 2013 | 106 comments
11.
The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz – Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion (volokh.com)
161 points by pdonis on Jan 17, 2013 | 136 comments
12.
Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz (esquire.com)
152 points by hudibras on Jan 17, 2013 | 67 comments
13.
Go concurrency patterns (golang.org)
142 points by _zhqs on Jan 17, 2013 | 81 comments
14.
'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi (zdnet.com)
139 points by dan1234 on Jan 17, 2013 | 95 comments
15.
SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X (feross.org)
126 points by nh on Jan 17, 2013 | 33 comments
16.
Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud (ersatz1.com)
121 points by dave_sullivan on Jan 17, 2013 | 31 comments
17.
What is up with the insane long Google results URL now? (mergy.org)
118 points by mergy on Jan 17, 2013 | 67 comments
18.
Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication (bryceboe.com)
115 points by superchink on Jan 17, 2013 | 56 comments
19.
Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web (getprismatic.com)
120 points by aria on Jan 17, 2013 | 60 comments
20.
An open source Linux client for Google Drive (github.com/grive)
110 points by g3orge on Jan 17, 2013 | 49 comments
21.
Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry (jquery.com)
108 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2013 | 35 comments
22.
Ruby mistakes (gist.github.com)
108 points by caludio on Jan 17, 2013 | 90 comments
23.
WikiCancel - A Subscription, Contract, and Account Cancellation Guide (wikicancel.org)
94 points by murtza on Jan 17, 2013 | 12 comments
24.
Riddles have no place in job interviews (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
95 points by techdog on Jan 17, 2013 | 140 comments
25.
RethinkDB screencast - from queries to sharding under 15 minutes (rethinkdb.com)
96 points by coffeemug on Jan 17, 2013 | 14 comments
26.
Mega, the new MegaUpload, to launch on January 19 (kim.com)
92 points by sgarbi on Jan 17, 2013 | 49 comments
27.
Want to Kill Innovation at Your Company? Go Public (wsj.com)
87 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 17, 2013 | 18 comments
28.
What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming (appfog.com)
88 points by luc_perkins on Jan 17, 2013 | 29 comments
29.
David Rusenko's 2012 Startup School Talk (startupschool.org)
81 points by dannyv on Jan 17, 2013 | 12 comments
30.
3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it (techdirt.com)
79 points by rahoulb on Jan 17, 2013 | 77 comments

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