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1.
Tron Legacy (2010) (jtnimoy.net)
657 points by rsingla on Jan 21, 2013 | 143 comments
2.
Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory? (unix.stackexchange.com)
413 points by rawland on Jan 21, 2013 | 153 comments
3.
How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (utsalumni.org)
382 points by rrreese on Jan 21, 2013 | 150 comments
4.
Programmer Interrupted (ninlabs.com)
366 points by Off on Jan 21, 2013 | 87 comments
5.
What we discovered about InstallMonetizer
333 points by pg on Jan 21, 2013 | 178 comments
6.
Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson (shayhowe.com)
315 points by shay-howe on Jan 21, 2013 | 48 comments
7.
Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
294 points by danilocampos on Jan 21, 2013 | 115 comments
8.
Taking payments online in Europe in 2013 (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
264 points by jmaskell on Jan 21, 2013 | 181 comments
9.
The End of Ragequitting (codinghorror.com)
250 points by Anon84 on Jan 21, 2013 | 96 comments
10.
When Haskell Is Not faster than C (jacquesmattheij.com)
250 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 21, 2013 | 219 comments
11.
Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases (bostonherald.com)
213 points by chaostheory on Jan 21, 2013 | 157 comments
12.
New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering" (coursera.org)
195 points by msprague on Jan 21, 2013 | 27 comments
13.
Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place (freethroww.com)
152 points by nc on Jan 21, 2013 | 39 comments
14.
Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet (whowhatwhy.com)
156 points by pccampbell on Jan 21, 2013 | 75 comments
15.
Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself (scientificamerican.com)
151 points by roflc0ptic on Jan 21, 2013 | 92 comments
16.
Ludde's FPGA NES (fpganes.blogspot.se)
149 points by jyrki on Jan 21, 2013 | 22 comments
17.
My iOS 7 Wishlist (tomdale.net)
147 points by sciwiz on Jan 21, 2013 | 148 comments
18.
Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads (gosquared.com)
146 points by gnw on Jan 21, 2013 | 25 comments
19.
Why doesn't `kill -9` always work? (noah.org)
126 points by fool on Jan 21, 2013 | 52 comments
20.
Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID (infoq.com)
113 points by sethev on Jan 21, 2013 | 26 comments
21.
How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture (nytimes.com)
114 points by bensw on Jan 21, 2013 | 27 comments
22.
Worst Bug Ever (swanson.github.com)
112 points by swanson on Jan 21, 2013 | 115 comments
23.
Designer News (layervault.com)
105 points by petercooper on Jan 21, 2013 | 69 comments
24.
Geography's The Fuck (jasonpunyon.com)
104 points by JasonPunyon on Jan 21, 2013 | 29 comments
25.
Github blocked from China (viewdns.info)
103 points by hunvreus on Jan 21, 2013 | 66 comments
26.
One div – The single element HTML/CSS icon database (one-div.com)
87 points by afoketunji on Jan 21, 2013 | 22 comments
27.
Wikileaks Says Aaron Swartz Was a Possible Source (mashable.com)
85 points by ma2rten on Jan 21, 2013 | 53 comments
28.
Successful Solo Startup Founders (softwaresmitten.com)
80 points by yoyo on Jan 21, 2013 | 17 comments
29.
Empathy among students in engineering programmes (tandfonline.com)
79 points by oinkgrr on Jan 21, 2013 | 71 comments
30.
Google Earth puts North Korea Labour camps on the map (rte.ie)
79 points by chemcoder on Jan 21, 2013 | 28 comments

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