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1.
I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do? (bloomberg.com)
374 points by kn0thing on Jan 4, 2012 | 153 comments
2.
Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters (patshaughnessy.net)
357 points by there on Jan 4, 2012 | 109 comments
3.
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (theregister.co.uk)
300 points by sytelus on Jan 4, 2012 | 126 comments
4.
Why do we pay sales commissions? (fogcreek.com)
269 points by buzzcut on Jan 4, 2012 | 113 comments
5.
Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet (readwriteweb.com)
250 points by jonmwords on Jan 4, 2012 | 134 comments
6.
A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of (dadgum.com)
239 points by pavel_lishin on Jan 4, 2012 | 154 comments
7.
Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA (steveblank.com)
236 points by grellas on Jan 4, 2012 | 40 comments
8.
Top TED Talks of 2011 To Inspire Tech Startups (marksoper.net)
177 points by marksoper on Jan 4, 2012 | 18 comments
9.
Being recruited in the USA (calepin.co)
165 points by masylum on Jan 4, 2012 | 146 comments
10.
Apple ][ game server (asciiexpress.net)
159 points by steveb on Jan 4, 2012 | 52 comments
11.
Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign (plus.google.com)
139 points by chintan on Jan 4, 2012 | 63 comments
12.
Letter from Orwell to his publisher regarding 1984 (lettersofnote.com)
133 points by alexholehouse on Jan 4, 2012 | 49 comments
13.
Using AI to design board games (boardgamegeek.com)
107 points by chaddeshon on Jan 4, 2012 | 31 comments
14.
Google Chrome HTTPS Address Bar Spoofing (acrossecurity.com)
103 points by dielel on Jan 4, 2012 | 4 comments
15.
Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com)
100 points by wisp on Jan 4, 2012 | 66 comments
16.
Piracy is not a problem; SOPA is not a solution (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
97 points by macco on Jan 4, 2012 | 77 comments
17.
E-mail is the Universal Platform (contactually.com)
102 points by skevvis on Jan 4, 2012 | 59 comments
18.
How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse (searchengineland.com)
92 points by kirpekar on Jan 4, 2012 | 120 comments
19.
Migrating away from Puppet to cdist (Python3) (schottelius.org)
94 points by mahmoudimus on Jan 4, 2012 | 52 comments
20.
Show HN: During the last week, I built a SPDY server. (github.com/jonasschneider)
85 points by sokrates on Jan 4, 2012 | 19 comments
21.
Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 (airbnb.com)
84 points by Airbnb-Nerds on Jan 4, 2012 | 27 comments
22.
Google demotes Chrome in search results over pay-for-post promo (cnet.com)
81 points by ed2417 on Jan 4, 2012 | 36 comments
23.
Could Coding Become the Next Mass Profession? (roybahat.com)
79 points by zds on Jan 4, 2012 | 101 comments
24.
Defeat facial recognition (cvdazzle.com)
79 points by fomojola on Jan 4, 2012 | 19 comments
25.
What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design? (johnpolacek.github.com)
79 points by jimsteinhart on Jan 4, 2012 | 31 comments
26.
Vi Hart and Khan Academy Join Forces [video] (youtu.be)
72 points by DeusExMachina on Jan 4, 2012 | 10 comments
27.
Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain (scientificamerican.com)
68 points by tokenadult on Jan 4, 2012 | 26 comments
28.
The 20% Project (like Google) In My Class (educationismylife.com)
66 points by ajjuliani on Jan 4, 2012 | 18 comments
29.
Markdown Editor (joncom.be)
67 points by alexchamberlain on Jan 4, 2012 | 29 comments
30.
Why Attacking Application Exceptions is Important (37signals.com)
65 points by themcgruff on Jan 4, 2012 | 6 comments

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