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1.
Homeland Security Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The Law (techdirt.com)
158 points by julian37 on Dec 22, 2010 | 38 comments
2.
VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog) (virtualbox.org)
152 points by phren0logy on Dec 22, 2010 | 29 comments
3.
Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video) (hipmunk.com)
138 points by kn0thing on Dec 22, 2010 | 60 comments
4.
How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup (viniciusvacanti.com)
136 points by revorad on Dec 22, 2010 | 27 comments
5.
More Mistakes Discovered In DHS's Domain Seizures (techdirt.com)
121 points by yanw on Dec 22, 2010 | 36 comments
6.
DotCloud (YC S10) Mix and Match Cloud Platform Launches (techcrunch.com)
119 points by sbisker on Dec 22, 2010 | 56 comments
7.
Zinc: a low level language between assembler, C and C++ with Ruby-like syntax (tibleiz.net)
116 points by tianyicui on Dec 22, 2010 | 50 comments
8.
Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited (dr-josiah.blogspot.com)
111 points by DrJosiah on Dec 22, 2010 | 95 comments
9.
First we built an API, then we built a CMS (gethifi.com)
102 points by JoelSutherland on Dec 22, 2010 | 35 comments
10.
Great. Skype is down. (thenextweb.com)
102 points by b-boy-b on Dec 22, 2010 | 66 comments
11.
Tell HN: Writing helps
90 points by hardik on Dec 22, 2010 | 31 comments
12.
Building a Recommendation Engine with NumPy (software-carpentry.org)
89 points by J3L2404 on Dec 22, 2010 | 12 comments
13.
Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To) (wsj.com)
86 points by dannyv on Dec 22, 2010 | 12 comments
14.
AI Defeats the Hivemind (technologyreview.com)
82 points by J3L2404 on Dec 22, 2010 | 29 comments
15.
Wayne Ting, nearly a billionaire. Or how Facebook won (bbc.co.uk)
80 points by marckremers on Dec 22, 2010 | 29 comments
16.
Skype brief post-mortem (skype.com)
76 points by LiveTheDream on Dec 22, 2010 | 65 comments
17.
Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released (mozilla.com)
74 points by ahalam on Dec 22, 2010 | 57 comments
18.
Fish sucks (but your shell sucks more) (markhansen.co.nz)
71 points by mhansen on Dec 22, 2010 | 60 comments
19.
What Separates a Generalist and a Dabbler? (sebastianmarshall.com)
68 points by lionhearted on Dec 22, 2010 | 31 comments
20.
Which Smalltalk? (smalltalkzen.wordpress.com)
68 points by shawndumas on Dec 22, 2010 | 28 comments
21.
Android In Spaaaace (googlemobile.blogspot.com)
68 points by bjonathan on Dec 22, 2010 | 17 comments
22.
Google Purchases 111 Eighth Avenue, NYC (googleblog.blogspot.com)
69 points by jamesjyu on Dec 22, 2010 | 40 comments
23.
Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us (bbc.co.uk)
66 points by jamesbritt on Dec 22, 2010 | 34 comments
24.
RIP Things (brooksreview.net)
61 points by showngo on Dec 22, 2010 | 48 comments
25.
A serious drug problem (dailykos.com)
60 points by blahedo on Dec 22, 2010 | 28 comments
26.
Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
58 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Dec 22, 2010 | 11 comments
27.
A hacker's Christmas wishlist (withoutfriction.com)
56 points by withoutfriction on Dec 22, 2010 | 33 comments
28.
Hacking your OSX Address Book with C, Racket and LaTeX (might.net)
54 points by plinkplonk on Dec 22, 2010 | 20 comments
29.
US driving Swedish Data Retention (piratpartiet.se)
51 points by mfukar on Dec 22, 2010 | 7 comments
30.
Tell HN: Free Book Giveaway
51 points by santry on Dec 22, 2010 | 8 comments

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