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1.		A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
		391 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 24, 2012 \| 45 comments
2.		Hastebin (hastebin.com)
		378 points by neilparikh on Jan 24, 2012 \| 67 comments
3.		Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu (markshuttleworth.com)
		361 points by Symmetry on Jan 24, 2012 \| 198 comments
4.		Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this (politicianmarket.com)
		334 points by pmarket on Jan 24, 2012 \| 144 comments
5.		Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback (markdotto.com)
		310 points by iamhenry on Jan 24, 2012 \| 85 comments
6.		Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit (apple.com)
		287 points by yoda_sl on Jan 24, 2012 \| 261 comments
7.		Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening? (heroku.com)
		247 points by brianshumate on Jan 24, 2012 \| 105 comments
8.		Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying.
		238 points by cies on Jan 24, 2012 \| 99 comments
9.		Show HN: Craigslist Car Search (carsabi.com)
		236 points by dw5ight on Jan 24, 2012 \| 103 comments
10.		Mobile shift: You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is (trigger.io)
		231 points by amirnathoo on Jan 24, 2012 \| 114 comments
11.		Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael (method.ac)
		216 points by cshenoy on Jan 24, 2012 \| 30 comments
12.		Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service? (techcrunch.com)
		212 points by caublestone on Jan 24, 2012 \| 64 comments
13.		The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car (torrentfreak.com)
		201 points by llambda on Jan 24, 2012 \| 137 comments
14.		I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went (webstartup.me)
		187 points by james-fend on Jan 24, 2012 \| 80 comments
15.		Vivify: A color scheme editor for vim (bytefluent.com)
		174 points by mcrittenden on Jan 24, 2012 \| 21 comments
16.		Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops (cnet.com)
		175 points by llambda on Jan 24, 2012 \| 180 comments
17.		Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired (venturebeat.com)
		167 points by ukdm on Jan 24, 2012 \| 35 comments
18.		Tony Hsieh's new $350 million startup (cnn.com)
		162 points by brownday on Jan 24, 2012 \| 44 comments
19.		I want to fix programming (jonbho.net)
		164 points by jng on Jan 24, 2012 \| 159 comments
20.		Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives (arstechnica.com)
		137 points by Feanim on Jan 24, 2012 \| 132 comments
21.		Say No to Ireland's SOPA (stopsopaireland.com)
		126 points by johnc055 on Jan 24, 2012 \| 20 comments
22.		Are Expensive Batteries Worth the Extra Cost? (wired.com)
		118 points by chaostheory on Jan 24, 2012 \| 44 comments
23.		Dear Comcast, I'm leaving you because... (bgentry.posterous.com)
		115 points by bgentry on Jan 24, 2012 \| 73 comments
24.		No More Résumés, Say Some Firms (wsj.com)
		108 points by bconway on Jan 24, 2012 \| 67 comments
25.		Making universities obsolete (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
		106 points by ananthrk on Jan 24, 2012 \| 68 comments
26.		Matt Mullenweg: On the Evolution of Investing (ma.tt)
		102 points by ccc3 on Jan 24, 2012 \| 14 comments
27.		The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund (perlfoundation.org)
		100 points by yko on Jan 24, 2012 \| 23 comments
28.		To-Do Lists Don't Work (hbr.org)
		96 points by pitdesi on Jan 24, 2012 \| 44 comments
29.		Google's new privacy policy and TOS (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		99 points by antichaos on Jan 24, 2012 \| 43 comments
30.		Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus (pcpro.co.uk)
		92 points by elij on Jan 24, 2012 \| 66 comments
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