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1.
Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image (lokeshdhakar.com)
212 points by tortilla on Jan 7, 2012 | 40 comments
2.
The Art of Unix Programming (catb.org)
178 points by aycangulez on Jan 7, 2012 | 40 comments
3.
Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life (reddit.com)
172 points by surfingdino on Jan 7, 2012 | 83 comments
4.
Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues (nytimes.com)
143 points by FluidDjango on Jan 7, 2012 | 21 comments
5.
Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised (cryptome.org)
121 points by mrb on Jan 7, 2012 | 95 comments
6.
How to register a company in the UK (swombat.com)
121 points by lancashire on Jan 7, 2012 | 75 comments
7.
Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss (gigaom.com)
107 points by FluidDjango on Jan 7, 2012 | 26 comments
8.
The Economist on Intel versus ARM (economist.com)
97 points by malay on Jan 7, 2012 | 29 comments
9.
Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again (hunterwalk.com)
96 points by kul on Jan 7, 2012 | 31 comments
10.
Jane Street releases open source alternative to OCaml's stdlib (janestreet.com)
90 points by _bbs on Jan 7, 2012 | 12 comments
11.
The Critics Rave... for Microsoft? (nytimes.com)
81 points by rkon on Jan 7, 2012 | 68 comments
12.
Anatomy of a Kernel Hack (linuxchix.org)
78 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 10 comments
13.
"mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats (ntlworld.com)
77 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 36 comments
14.
Debunking a Computer Chess Scandal (chessbase.com)
77 points by worldvoyageur on Jan 7, 2012 | 38 comments
15.
Ask HN: Is there a repository of failed startups (re-usable startups idea)?
76 points by zeratul on Jan 7, 2012 | 38 comments
16.
Why Data Structures Matter (joelneely.wordpress.com)
72 points by gnosis on Jan 7, 2012 | 8 comments
17.
Thoughts on yesterday's paid vs free visitor.js (tristara.com)
70 points by jseims on Jan 7, 2012 | 31 comments
18.
Show HN: My weekend project, DailyPag.es (dailypag.es)
69 points by haon99 on Jan 7, 2012 | 21 comments
19.
EasyDNS is under DoS attack (easydns.org)
69 points by noodly on Jan 7, 2012 | 18 comments
20.
How to parse HTML (perl.org)
68 points by ranit8 on Jan 7, 2012 | 32 comments
21.
The Real Story On That "Antidepressant Surge" (neuroskeptic.blogspot.com)
53 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 7, 2012 | 23 comments
22.
CLI tool for GitHub Issues (github.com/vesln)
52 points by vesln on Jan 7, 2012 | 17 comments
23.
Case study: How & why to build consumer apps with Node.js (venturebeat.com)
50 points by jolie on Jan 7, 2012 | 15 comments
24.
Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly (nature.com)
49 points by jv22222 on Jan 7, 2012 | 4 comments
25.
Ask HN: Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US)
49 points by FredBrach on Jan 7, 2012 | 56 comments
26.
Minimal TODOs for Linux (adrianmouat.com)
46 points by amouat on Jan 7, 2012 | 24 comments
27.
FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff live stream (10:30am eastern) (nasa.gov)
45 points by ja27 on Jan 7, 2012 | 23 comments
28.
New slow-motion DoS attack: just a few PCs, little fear of detection (arstechnica.com)
45 points by tilt on Jan 7, 2012 | 11 comments
29.
The Timeless Genius of Kodak’s George Eastman (technologizer.com)
43 points by technologizer on Jan 7, 2012 | 4 comments
30.
Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters’ Account Information (mashable.com)
37 points by jmj42 on Jan 7, 2012 | 18 comments

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