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1.		Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
		650 points by mikecane on Dec 26, 2012 \| 162 comments
2.		The Flat Sink (sachagreif.com)
		260 points by sgdesign on Dec 26, 2012 \| 148 comments
3.		The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me (37signals.com)
		248 points by dcope on Dec 26, 2012 \| 61 comments
4.		Downtime last Saturday (github.com/blog)
		199 points by Pr0 on Dec 26, 2012 \| 104 comments
5.		The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed (bloomberg.com)
		189 points by lucaspiller on Dec 26, 2012 \| 106 comments
6.		Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
		171 points by diminium on Dec 26, 2012 \| 87 comments
7.		Receiveee.com - disposable email address (receiveee.com)
		166 points by kornnflake on Dec 26, 2012 \| 123 comments
8.		Desktop App for All Your Email (inky.com)
		158 points by tortilla on Dec 26, 2012 \| 152 comments
9.		Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love (nytimes.com)
		152 points by wallflower on Dec 26, 2012 \| 55 comments
10.		Why use SVM (yaksis.com)
		147 points by cpleppert on Dec 26, 2012 \| 33 comments
11.		Advice for US entrepreneurs who move to Europe (martinvarsavsky.net)
		143 points by jkaljundi on Dec 26, 2012 \| 157 comments
12.		Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy (mcfunley.com)
		137 points by mcfunley on Dec 26, 2012 \| 70 comments
13.		The best things and stuff of 2012 (fogus.me)
		133 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 26, 2012 \| 13 comments
14.		Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C (gmu.edu)
		131 points by thealphanerd on Dec 26, 2012 \| 69 comments
15.		New school C (oreilly.com)
		128 points by jamesbritt on Dec 26, 2012 \| 151 comments
16.		Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (1922) (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
		113 points by mikecane on Dec 26, 2012 \| 27 comments
17.		Python for Beginners (pythonforbeginners.com)
		103 points by codingblues on Dec 26, 2012 \| 58 comments
18.		Design Tips Every Developer Should Know (teamtreehouse.com)
		97 points by nickpettit on Dec 26, 2012 \| 18 comments
19.		Scikit-learn: machine learning in Python (scikit-learn.org)
		92 points by hypnotist on Dec 26, 2012 \| 7 comments
20.		Never Make Counter-Offers (2011) (bramcohen.com)
		90 points by 127001brewer on Dec 26, 2012 \| 57 comments
21.		Hottest Indian Startups In 2012 (nextbigwhat.com)
		87 points by sooperman on Dec 26, 2012 \| 22 comments
22.		Gmail phone calls remain free of charge in 2013 for US and Canada (engadget.com)
		86 points by redDragon on Dec 26, 2012 \| 74 comments
23.		How Allied Fliers Used Monopoly to Escape From German POW Camps (warhistoryonline.com)
		84 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 26, 2012 \| 37 comments
24.		Locating interesting parts of an image (iptech-group.com)
		71 points by mmastrac on Dec 26, 2012 \| 10 comments
25.		The Long Strange Trip to Java (1996) (blinkenlights.com)
		65 points by mariusae on Dec 26, 2012 \| 14 comments
26.		Randi Zuckerberg Also Confused About Facebook Privacy (cnbc.com)
		64 points by codegeek on Dec 26, 2012 \| 91 comments
27.		Facebook ruins Zuckerberg Xmas (salon.com)
		57 points by jamesbritt on Dec 26, 2012 \| 32 comments
28.		Google’s Mobile Future Is Now (techcrunch.com)
		57 points by treskot on Dec 26, 2012 \| 7 comments
29.		New Technology Is Making Us More Like the Amish (slate.com)
		53 points by pitt1980 on Dec 26, 2012 \| 24 comments
30.		Reminder: secret_token.rb is named so for a reason (biggestfool.tumblr.com)
		53 points by Ryoku on Dec 26, 2012 \| 55 comments
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