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1.		Cars kill cities (progressivetransit.wordpress.com)
		553 points by ajju on Jan 26, 2012 \| 336 comments
2.		Wat (destroyallsoftware.com)
		512 points by abahgat on Jan 26, 2012 \| 98 comments
3.		Show HN: my database engine for GPU (sourceforge.net)
		364 points by antonmks on Jan 26, 2012 \| 60 comments
4.		Scaling GitHub (zachholman.com)
		348 points by pascal07 on Jan 26, 2012 \| 67 comments
5.		Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle (ycombinator.com)
		310 points by pg on Jan 26, 2012 \| 106 comments
6.		How to Make It on Craigslist (priceonomics.com)
		269 points by omarish on Jan 26, 2012 \| 172 comments
7.		Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers (reddit.com)
		217 points by blutonium on Jan 26, 2012 \| 56 comments
8.		Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable (wildbit.com)
		227 points by alexknowshtml on Jan 26, 2012 \| 77 comments
9.		Google’s Python Lessons are Awesome (hartleybrody.com)
		185 points by hartleybrody on Jan 26, 2012 \| 13 comments
10.		Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom (arstechnica.com)
		184 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 \| 89 comments
11.		ACTA is being signed right now in the EU (thejournal.ie)
		158 points by kermitthehermit on Jan 26, 2012 \| 41 comments
12.		Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets (torrentfreak.com)
		154 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 \| 22 comments
13.		PUT or POST: The REST of the Story (jcalcote.wordpress.com)
		149 points by jherdman on Jan 26, 2012 \| 49 comments
14.		Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript (dosync.posterous.com)
		147 points by swannodette on Jan 26, 2012 \| 47 comments
15.		Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
		132 points by bensummers on Jan 26, 2012 \| 53 comments
16.		Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2 (gocardless.com)
		127 points by alexchamberlain on Jan 26, 2012 \| 92 comments
17.		Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation (cheekswab.org)
		120 points by danielna on Jan 26, 2012 \| 25 comments
18.		Twitter Will Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries (readwriteweb.com)
		122 points by Anon84 on Jan 26, 2012 \| 65 comments
19.		ACTA rapporteur denounces ACTA mascarade (laquadrature.net)
		120 points by wwwhizz on Jan 26, 2012 \| 18 comments
20.		Today Apple, Google, 5 Others Battle “No Poach” Conspiracy Case (techcrunch.com)
		114 points by nikhilpandit on Jan 26, 2012 \| 72 comments
21.		22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty (thenextweb.com)
		114 points by joejohnson on Jan 26, 2012 \| 31 comments
22.		Drchrono (YC W11) raises $2.8 Million for iPad Health Record Platform (nytimes.com)
		94 points by Skeletor on Jan 26, 2012 \| 41 comments
23.		Skills aren't taught at university; we develop them to cope with university (jeffdechambeau.com)
		87 points by jeffdechambeau on Jan 26, 2012 \| 41 comments
24.		Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard (technologyreview.com)
		86 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 \| 19 comments
25.		The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm (mobocube.com)
		83 points by SingAlong on Jan 26, 2012 \| 33 comments
26.		IBM creates 9nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon (extremetech.com)
		79 points by ukdm on Jan 26, 2012 \| 31 comments
27.		First look at 37signals big rewrite of basecamp (37signals.com)
		78 points by andycroll on Jan 26, 2012 \| 20 comments
28.		Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison (archlinux.org)
		71 points by denysonique on Jan 26, 2012 \| 31 comments
29.		Testing Backbone.js Best Practices (involver.com)
		72 points by joneath on Jan 26, 2012 \| 8 comments
30.		Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync (github.com/lucian1900)
		70 points by lucian1900 on Jan 26, 2012 \| 25 comments
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