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1.		Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich (wsj.com)
		325 points by georgecmu on Jan 29, 2011 \| 343 comments
2.		Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera? (salon.com)
		225 points by mih on Jan 29, 2011 \| 174 comments
3.		Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here. (github.com/github)
		188 points by _pius on Jan 29, 2011 \| 64 comments
4.		As Egypt Erupts, Al Jazeera Offers Its News for Free to Other Networks (wired.com)
		151 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 \| 69 comments
5.		Why I Left Google (jeanhsu.com)
		143 points by jeanhsu on Jan 29, 2011 \| 115 comments
6.		Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 source code leaked (unremote.org)
		138 points by etix on Jan 29, 2011 \| 76 comments
7.		Hunting Hydrogen Balloons with Fireworks (rcexplorer.se)
		126 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 \| 6 comments
8.		36 hours in North Korea without a guide (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
		124 points by mike_esspe on Jan 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
9.		Camlistore: a new project from Brad Fitzpatrick (camlistore.org)
		118 points by joshfraser on Jan 29, 2011 \| 22 comments
10.		US states: If they were countries (economist.com)
		114 points by timr on Jan 29, 2011 \| 66 comments
11.		I'm finally doing it: bootstrapping my start up.
		96 points by jwwest on Jan 29, 2011 \| 50 comments
12.		90% of Y Combinator Startups Have Already Accepted The $150k Start Fund Offer (techcrunch.com)
		97 points by mjfern on Jan 29, 2011 \| 86 comments
13.		I will miss the old Y Combinator (scobleizer.com)
		90 points by domino on Jan 29, 2011 \| 61 comments
14.		New HN users: do not overlook the "Lists" feature (news.ycombinator.com)
		89 points by gsivil on Jan 29, 2011 \| 35 comments
15.		AnyLeaf (YC S10) Aggregates And Delivers Personalized Grocery Store Deals (techcrunch.com)
		88 points by dirtae on Jan 29, 2011 \| 27 comments
16.		When The Drones Come Marching In (techcrunch.com)
		79 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 \| 33 comments
17.		Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong (newsweek.com)
		76 points by gatsby on Jan 29, 2011 \| 42 comments
18.		Is Yuri Milner A Threat To Silicon Valley? (techcrunch.com)
		74 points by ssclafani on Jan 29, 2011 \| 34 comments
19.		AngularJS: If HTML were built for writing web apps (angularjs.org)
		70 points by phren0logy on Jan 29, 2011 \| 18 comments
20.		What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us? (theatlantic.com)
		69 points by grellas on Jan 29, 2011 \| 25 comments
21.		A Homebrew CPU from scratch (buildacpu.blogspot.com)
		62 points by _b8r0 on Jan 29, 2011 \| 10 comments
22.		Eloquent Javascript now in print (nostarch.com)
		61 points by angrycoder on Jan 29, 2011 \| 14 comments
23.		Hudson CI developers vote against Oracle control, "Hudson" name... (groups.google.com)
		58 points by rst on Jan 29, 2011 \| 18 comments
24.		Ask PG: Will the Yuri Milner deal affect which startups YC accepts?
		55 points by il on Jan 29, 2011 \| 16 comments
25.		Jason Calacanis' Take on Google's Algorithm Change (mattcutts.com)
		59 points by mikeknoop on Jan 29, 2011 \| 33 comments
26.		Little Known Hacker News (2008) (techcrunch.com)
		54 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 \| 36 comments
27.		Yuri Milner Uses Anybot to Announce Funding for Every Y Combinator Startup (anybots.posterous.com)
		50 points by jlhamilton on Jan 29, 2011 \| 5 comments
28.		$3 million machine learning prize (heritagehealthprize.com)
		48 points by timf on Jan 29, 2011 \| 25 comments
29.		Will an assured $150k investment hurt the spirit of Y Combinator? (thenextweb.com)
		47 points by bretpiatt on Jan 29, 2011 \| 22 comments
30.		Here’s How John Paulson Made $5 Billion Last Year (blogs.forbes.com)
		46 points by raphar on Jan 29, 2011 \| 12 comments
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