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1.
A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising (good.is)
344 points by gruseom on Jan 2, 2012 | 119 comments
2.
The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See (slate.com)
332 points by tptacek on Jan 2, 2012 | 90 comments
3.
TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps (mapbox.com)
311 points by dhotson on Jan 2, 2012 | 35 comments
4.
Show HN: How I built a self-driving (RC) car.
300 points by dps on Jan 2, 2012 | 21 comments
5.
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success (theatlantic.com)
278 points by dirtyaura on Jan 2, 2012 | 186 comments
6.
Belarus Makes Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor (loc.gov)
256 points by anigbrowl on Jan 2, 2012 | 85 comments
7.
New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own (eff.org)
231 points by tobiasbischoff on Jan 2, 2012 | 182 comments
8.
Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking (speirs.org)
205 points by JoelMcCracken on Jan 2, 2012 | 86 comments
9.
I am done with the freemium business model (tylernichols.com)
205 points by jfoucher on Jan 2, 2012 | 108 comments
10.
Top job boards for software devs (maxmasnick.com)
199 points by masnick on Jan 2, 2012 | 25 comments
11.
The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order (technologyreview.com)
175 points by pg on Jan 2, 2012 | 43 comments
12.
Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000 (techcrunch.com)
152 points by tfe on Jan 2, 2012 | 143 comments
13.
Clean Your App Permissions in 2 Minutes (mypermissions.org)
144 points by benjlang on Jan 2, 2012 | 24 comments
14.
Galaxy Nexus Power Analysis: Why chargers can't keep up with navigation (reddit.com)
119 points by there on Jan 2, 2012 | 64 comments
15.
Reducing Code Nesting (eflorenzano.com)
114 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 2, 2012 | 113 comments
16.
Javascript Ray Tracer (fooo.fr)
94 points by vjeux on Jan 2, 2012 | 25 comments
17.
Hackers said to be planning to Launch Satellites to Combat Censorship (pcworld.com)
95 points by okal on Jan 2, 2012 | 54 comments
18.
Learning to Eat Well and Stay Healthy (howtoeatandlive.com)
91 points by stock_toaster on Jan 2, 2012 | 60 comments
19.
Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz's Pairing Setup (tomdale.net)
88 points by nixme on Jan 2, 2012 | 17 comments
20.
Using the Dropbox API from Haskell (dropbox.com)
95 points by ivankirigin on Jan 2, 2012 | 5 comments
21.
Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5) (ryanbigg.com)
86 points by auxbuss on Jan 2, 2012 | 24 comments
22.
Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman (boingboing.net)
86 points by radley on Jan 2, 2012 | 15 comments
23.
Excellent Introduction To Linux Binary Execution System (buffalo.edu)
79 points by signa11 on Jan 2, 2012 | 2 comments
24.
PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js. (pdfkit.org)
75 points by jenhsun on Jan 2, 2012 | 10 comments
25.
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool (npr.org)
74 points by gruseom on Jan 2, 2012 | 29 comments
26.
GNU /bin/ed 1.6 released (lists.gnu.org)
73 points by lelf on Jan 2, 2012 | 35 comments
27.
R in Action (johndcook.com)
72 points by ColinWright on Jan 2, 2012 | 8 comments
28.
An Ad Blocker Opens the Gate, Ever So Slightly (nytimes.com)
68 points by webwanderings on Jan 2, 2012 | 54 comments
29.
Zaarly: How To Get 100,000 Subscribers In 3.5 Months – with Bo Fishback (mixergy.com)
74 points by andygcook on Jan 2, 2012 | 33 comments
30.
Replacing small C programs with Haskell (ezyang.com)
65 points by chalst on Jan 2, 2012 | 19 comments

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