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1.		GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA (david.weebly.com)
		705 points by drusenko on Dec 26, 2011 \| 38 comments
2.		Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues (namecheap.com)
		396 points by PStamatiou on Dec 26, 2011 \| 74 comments
3.		The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value (forbes.com/sites/stevedenning)
		376 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 26, 2011 \| 135 comments
4.		Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps (nestoria.co.uk)
		277 points by freyfogle on Dec 26, 2011 \| 98 comments
5.		The legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan (thehindu.com)
		238 points by rehack on Dec 26, 2011 \| 23 comments
6.		Open Letter to sites with annoying interfaces (bitonic.org)
		206 points by Queue29 on Dec 26, 2011 \| 75 comments
7.		Is Godaddy delaying domain transfer requests? (skitch.com)
		209 points by prateekdayal on Dec 26, 2011 \| 47 comments
8.		My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means. (renaebair.com)
		162 points by webista on Dec 26, 2011 \| 55 comments
9.		December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day (betanews.com)
		160 points by mgrouchy on Dec 26, 2011 \| 15 comments
10.		Show HN: Redis/ruby-based realtime event-tracking (github.com/paulasmuth)
		151 points by paulasmuth on Dec 26, 2011 \| 21 comments
11.		Why Aren't Other SOPA Supporters Being Punished Like GoDaddy? (pcworld.com)
		134 points by flueedo on Dec 26, 2011 \| 67 comments
12.		Waffles: command-line tools for machine learning and data mining (sourceforge.net)
		105 points by rkda on Dec 26, 2011 \| 12 comments
13.		GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block (techcrunch.com)
		107 points by ssclafani on Dec 26, 2011 \| 37 comments
14.		Google+ spams GChat/XMPP contact lists with irremovable circle nonsense (plus.google.com)
		97 points by zx2c4 on Dec 26, 2011 \| 15 comments
15.		Kidsruby - Learn Ruby for kids (kidsruby.com)
		93 points by illdave on Dec 26, 2011 \| 22 comments
16.		"Zombie" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi (nationalgeographic.com)
		81 points by llambda on Dec 26, 2011 \| 16 comments
17.		Concepts in Programming Languages (cam.ac.uk)
		74 points by g3orge on Dec 26, 2011 \| 19 comments
18.		Old, but gold - "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon" (joelonsoftware.com)
		76 points by adityakothadiya on Dec 26, 2011 \| 33 comments
19.		My summer at an Indian call center (motherjones.com)
		74 points by justincormack on Dec 26, 2011 \| 1 comment
20.		Ask HN: Lifehacker mentioned my app & traffic boosted. How to keep momentum?
		73 points by rapcal on Dec 26, 2011 \| 33 comments
21.		Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile (thenextweb.com)
		72 points by xiaomei on Dec 26, 2011 \| 20 comments
22.		The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h> (cuni.cz)
		71 points by slavak on Dec 26, 2011 \| 25 comments
23.		Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet (byedaddy.org)
		71 points by bpaf on Dec 26, 2011 \| 26 comments
24.		Anonymous did not attack Stratfor (pastebin.com)
		67 points by steve8918 on Dec 26, 2011 \| 21 comments
25.		Oracle v. Google - A Last Minute Present to Google from the USPTO (groklaw.net)
		65 points by Garbage on Dec 26, 2011 \| 2 comments
26.		GoDaddy not only helped write SOPA they are also exempt from it (donttreadonmike.com)
		62 points by nextparadigms on Dec 26, 2011 \| 3 comments
27.		A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark (technologyreview.com)
		59 points by minecraftman on Dec 26, 2011 \| 32 comments
28.		Start Up Chile Entrepreneur Responds to Investor's Departure (thenextweb.com)
		59 points by jamesjyu on Dec 26, 2011 \| 5 comments
29.		Show HN: An iPad app to teach kids how to program
		57 points by smj2118 on Dec 26, 2011 \| 36 comments
30.		Show HN: My weekend project, realtime log viewer in Flask (conceptis.org)
		58 points by llambda on Dec 26, 2011 \| 26 comments
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