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1.		The New Web Typography (ie.microsoft.com)
		327 points by cleverjake on Jan 9, 2012 \| 132 comments
2.		Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government? (computerworld.com)
		286 points by pash on Jan 9, 2012 \| 53 comments
3.		Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		270 points by nextparadigms on Jan 9, 2012 \| 82 comments
4.		Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
		266 points by aespinoza on Jan 9, 2012 \| 108 comments
5.		In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50 (orau.org)
		261 points by chaostheory on Jan 9, 2012 \| 96 comments
6.		Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes (holehouse.org)
		250 points by alexholehouse on Jan 9, 2012 \| 19 comments
7.		Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA (reddit.com)
		215 points by chaosmachine on Jan 9, 2012 \| 90 comments
8.		The $40 Standup Desk (opensoul.org)
		206 points by bkeepers on Jan 9, 2012 \| 102 comments
9.		UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed (computerworlduk.com)
		183 points by strawberryshake on Jan 9, 2012 \| 57 comments
10.		True Scala complexity (yz.mit.edu)
		182 points by plinkplonk on Jan 9, 2012 \| 148 comments
11.		84% of the investment gains from hedge fund went to the managers (plus.google.com)
		176 points by Dobbs on Jan 9, 2012 \| 87 comments
12.		The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (2006) (scienceblogs.com)
		173 points by m_for_monkey on Jan 9, 2012 \| 127 comments
13.		How To Work From Home Like You Mean It (fastcompany.com)
		167 points by ifearthenight on Jan 9, 2012 \| 73 comments
14.		Twitter’s poor API documentation practices (gazit.me)
		166 points by idan on Jan 9, 2012 \| 39 comments
15.		Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites (github.com/jorgebastida)
		163 points by juanriaza on Jan 9, 2012 \| 32 comments
16.		Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory (thisamericanlife.org)
		163 points by tomeast on Jan 9, 2012 \| 53 comments
17.		Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites (arcticstartup.com)
		147 points by vilpponen on Jan 9, 2012 \| 57 comments
18.		MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications (github.com/maccman)
		144 points by maccman on Jan 9, 2012 \| 35 comments
19.		Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks (scoutingny.com)
		144 points by locopati on Jan 9, 2012 \| 9 comments
20.		Ubuntu TV unveiled (pcpro.co.uk)
		141 points by g3orge on Jan 9, 2012 \| 67 comments
21.		B&N refuses to release source code of Nook Tablet, censors user requests (xda-developers.com)
		138 points by recoiledsnake on Jan 9, 2012 \| 38 comments
22.		Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) (manning.com)
		132 points by nathanmarz on Jan 9, 2012 \| 65 comments
23.		ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN (elias.kg)
		128 points by eliaskg on Jan 9, 2012 \| 34 comments
24.		Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities (disqus.com)
		134 points by simanyay on Jan 9, 2012 \| 48 comments
25.		Advanced programming languages (might.net)
		125 points by gnosis on Jan 9, 2012 \| 74 comments
26.		Two-color Makerbot released (makerbot.com)
		103 points by pingswept on Jan 9, 2012 \| 24 comments
27.		What’s Your Permanent Age? (2007) (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
		103 points by suprgeek on Jan 9, 2012 \| 37 comments
28.		We're scheduling an anti-SOPA blackout for 1/18/12. Let Google & FB know. (reddit.com)
		96 points by nextparadigms on Jan 9, 2012 \| 27 comments
29.		From Java to Node.js (n0tw0rthy.wordpress.com)
		94 points by matan_a on Jan 9, 2012 \| 10 comments
30.		Idea to product in 4 months : End-to-end product and technical development diary (cherrypopapp.com)
		85 points by plasma on Jan 9, 2012 \| 30 comments
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