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1.
Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO (techcrunch.com)
311 points by transburgh on Jan 17, 2011 | 201 comments
2.
I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) (kswizz.com)
250 points by kenneth on Jan 17, 2011 | 89 comments
3.
My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer (jeanhsu.com)
244 points by jeanhsu on Jan 17, 2011 | 218 comments
4.
Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds (randsinrepose.com)
153 points by filament on Jan 17, 2011 | 40 comments
5.
How Much Does a Single Search Cost Google? (billwarner.posterous.com)
137 points by jackowayed on Jan 17, 2011 | 37 comments
6.
Threewords.me is up for private auction (threewords.me)
136 points by mhunter on Jan 17, 2011 | 78 comments
7.
Piracy Doubled My App Sales (amitay.us)
131 points by danielamitay on Jan 17, 2011 | 72 comments
8.
New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
121 points by mikecane on Jan 17, 2011 | 100 comments
9.
JQuery 1.5 promises a better future. (renesd.blogspot.com)
118 points by illumen on Jan 17, 2011 | 8 comments
10.
Octave: An Alternative to the High Cost of Matlab (math-blog.com)
117 points by acangiano on Jan 17, 2011 | 55 comments
11.
Google Translate adds easter egg that recognizes the beatboxing hack (translate.google.com)
116 points by martinkallstrom on Jan 17, 2011 | 27 comments
12.
Roll your own LinkBait headline (whattofix.com)
100 points by swombat on Jan 17, 2011 | 34 comments
13.
Show HN: Pocket - my first app ever (letspocket.com)
99 points by guynamedloren on Jan 17, 2011 | 65 comments
14.
Solitude and Leadership (theamericanscholar.org)
99 points by ssclafani on Jan 17, 2011 | 6 comments
15.
Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave (nytimes.com)
92 points by joshwa on Jan 17, 2011 | 29 comments
16.
Django Software Stack (sourcefabric.org)
88 points by _1rgc on Jan 17, 2011 | 24 comments
17.
Compiling to lambda-calculus: Turtles all the way down (might.net)
86 points by budu on Jan 17, 2011 | 25 comments
18.
Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail
85 points by octavdruta on Jan 17, 2011 | 46 comments
19.
Dog learns over 1,000 words (nytimes.com)
81 points by dangoldin on Jan 17, 2011 | 47 comments
20.
Show HN: A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript (pageforest.com)
79 points by mckoss on Jan 17, 2011 | 41 comments
21.
Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (root.org)
72 points by r11t on Jan 17, 2011 | 107 comments
22.
Googlers Expose Sketchy SEO Company (seroundtable.com)
73 points by rooshdi on Jan 17, 2011 | 29 comments
23.
GET vs POST in terms of security (stackoverflow.com)
72 points by TimothyBurgess on Jan 17, 2011 | 42 comments
24.
Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss (ontwik.com)
69 points by ahmicro on Jan 17, 2011 | 8 comments
25.
IPhone v Android debate 'not important' (thedailymash.co.uk)
64 points by gaius on Jan 17, 2011 | 25 comments
26.
Groupon CEO Apologizes For Poorly Executed Offer In Japan (info.groupon.jp)
65 points by patio11 on Jan 17, 2011 | 43 comments
27.
EU funds open source language Scala (h-online.com)
62 points by Kototama on Jan 17, 2011 | 10 comments
28.
Xfce 4.8 released (xfce.org)
61 points by ahmet on Jan 17, 2011 | 21 comments
29.
Advice to a college sophomore programmer (pchristensen.com)
61 points by pchristensen on Jan 17, 2011 | 25 comments
30.
Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think (theatlantic.com)
52 points by budu on Jan 17, 2011 | 13 comments

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