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1.
The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP) (romvf.wordpress.com)
269 points by caustic on Jan 19, 2011 | 142 comments
2.
Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it (ycombinator.com)
257 points by pg on Jan 19, 2011 | 184 comments
3.
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk (aws.typepad.com)
209 points by jluxenberg on Jan 19, 2011 | 57 comments
4.
No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM (fsf.org)
202 points by tjr on Jan 19, 2011 | 163 comments
5.
Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick (scalzi.com)
184 points by surlyadopter on Jan 19, 2011 | 107 comments
6.
Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix (arstechnica.com)
157 points by shawndumas on Jan 19, 2011 | 61 comments
7.
Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws (eff.org)
146 points by grellas on Jan 19, 2011 | 40 comments
8.
Website calculates how your life might be like in another country (ifitweremyhome.com)
142 points by ck2 on Jan 19, 2011 | 106 comments
9.
Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour, by Colin Percival (mefeedia.com)
136 points by ibejoeb on Jan 19, 2011 | 40 comments
10.
How do emulators work and how are they written? (stackoverflow.com)
132 points by alcuadrado on Jan 19, 2011 | 21 comments
11.
The Bad Board Member (steveblank.com)
120 points by duck on Jan 19, 2011 | 15 comments
12.
Crowdsource HN: Resources for making your next website. (docs.google.com)
116 points by EGreg on Jan 19, 2011 | 28 comments
13.
 Sproutcore vs jQuery +backbone.js (ryth.posterous.com)
108 points by thomasdavis on Jan 19, 2011 | 46 comments
14.
Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit (reddit.com)
100 points by thamer on Jan 19, 2011 | 29 comments
15.
HTML is the new HTML5 (whatwg.org)
93 points by earnubs on Jan 19, 2011 | 27 comments
16.
How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut (maryrosecook.com)
90 points by maryrosecook on Jan 19, 2011 | 35 comments
17.
Yes, browsers do cache SSL resources, so please use Google's CDN (hoisie.com)
90 points by marketer on Jan 19, 2011 | 35 comments
18.
The road to faster tests (37signals.com)
87 points by duck on Jan 19, 2011 | 35 comments
19.
Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation (wolframalpha.com)
82 points by cosgroveb on Jan 19, 2011 | 74 comments
20.
Learning Lisp the hard way (groups.google.com)
70 points by gnosis on Jan 19, 2011 | 20 comments
21.
Notes of a native tiger son: it's a weird time to be Asian-American (theatlantic.com)
68 points by nitefly on Jan 19, 2011 | 54 comments
22.
Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon (phoronix.com)
65 points by bwag on Jan 19, 2011 | 25 comments
23.
Maptail.js geoips your tail -f to a map (github.com/stagas)
65 points by stagas on Jan 19, 2011 | 29 comments
24.
Andreas’ Personal Flying Suit (“Monocopter”) Project (technologie-entwicklung.de)
63 points by xd on Jan 19, 2011 | 18 comments
25.
Tom Faulhaber: Lisp, Functional Programming, And The State Of Flow (ontwik.com)
63 points by ahmicro on Jan 19, 2011 | 2 comments
26.
HTML5 client-side graphing calculator (graph.tk)
56 points by anigbrowl on Jan 19, 2011 | 17 comments
27.
Hadoopy: Cython based MapReduce library for Python (w/ Oozie Support) (brandynwhite.com)
52 points by brandynwhite on Jan 19, 2011 | 4 comments
28.
Ruby's rmagick Gem looking for a maintainer (github.com/rmagick)
51 points by andrewvc on Jan 19, 2011 | 13 comments
29.
Startup Row at PyCon 2011 (pycon.org)
49 points by VanL on Jan 19, 2011 | 9 comments
30.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (amazon.com)
45 points by Anon84 on Jan 19, 2011 | 3 comments

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