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1.
Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms (cryptome.org)
355 points by gbrindisi on Dec 2, 2012 | 261 comments
2.
YC W13 Will Be Smaller (ycombinator.com)
311 points by jkopelman on Dec 2, 2012 | 161 comments
3.
Show HN: Interactive SICP (xuanji.appspot.com)
280 points by zodiac on Dec 2, 2012 | 51 comments
4.
Understanding The Fourier Transform (altdevblogaday.com)
272 points by mannjani on Dec 2, 2012 | 44 comments
5.
Android Performance Case Study (curious-creature.org)
269 points by jkn on Dec 2, 2012 | 31 comments
6.
You don't have to be local (sivers.org)
235 points by joeyespo on Dec 2, 2012 | 51 comments
7.
Ask HN: what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?
193 points by batgaijin on Dec 2, 2012 | 223 comments
8.
Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice (philly.com)
182 points by tokenadult on Dec 2, 2012 | 93 comments
9.
Improving Your Python Productivity (ozkatz.github.com)
173 points by ozkatz on Dec 2, 2012 | 26 comments
10.
Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009) (fogus.me)
171 points by krat0sprakhar on Dec 2, 2012 | 35 comments
11.
When Facebook was Fun (bellm.org)
151 points by gammarator on Dec 2, 2012 | 69 comments
12.
Why C++ Is Not "Back" (simpleprogrammer.com)
130 points by jsonmez on Dec 2, 2012 | 142 comments
13.
Keep the Internet free and open (googleblog.blogspot.com)
129 points by cleverjake on Dec 2, 2012 | 18 comments
14.
E-Ink Case Turns the Back of Your Phone Into a Second Screen (wired.com)
120 points by rkudeshi on Dec 2, 2012 | 39 comments
15.
How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design (acm.org)
104 points by Rickasaurus on Dec 2, 2012 | 18 comments
16.
A Primer on Cheap Software Defined Radios (y3xz.com)
102 points by yuvadam on Dec 2, 2012 | 13 comments
17.
Startups, please write better emails (mhj.tc)
102 points by mikk0j on Dec 2, 2012 | 38 comments
18.
The Curious Field of Metamaterials (judegomila.com)
92 points by judegomila on Dec 2, 2012 | 28 comments
19.
India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection. (efytimes.com)
86 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 2, 2012 | 40 comments
20.
Documentation is King (kennethreitz.org)
85 points by kenneth_reitz on Dec 2, 2012 | 19 comments
21.
Triple rainbow near Seatle: How was it formed? (blogspot.com.ar)
84 points by gus_massa on Dec 2, 2012 | 12 comments
22.
Dear ITU, please don't bill Internet use like phone calls (arstechnica.com)
80 points by mtgx on Dec 2, 2012 | 32 comments
23.
UK ISPs block The Promo Bay (thenextweb.com)
80 points by Libertatea on Dec 2, 2012 | 51 comments
24.
Why C++ is back (devbug.tumblr.com)
73 points by devbug on Dec 2, 2012 | 72 comments
25.
Icons for Web and Other Businesses (davidmatthias.typepad.com)
68 points by dmkov on Dec 2, 2012 | 23 comments
26.
Exynos based quad-core developer boards, starting at $69 (hardkernel.com)
71 points by sharmajai on Dec 2, 2012 | 50 comments
27.
Photobooth.js - A HTML5 Webcam plugin for jQuery (wolframhempel.com)
69 points by wolframhempel on Dec 2, 2012 | 17 comments
28.
The State of Statistics in Julia (johnmyleswhite.com)
69 points by wallflower on Dec 2, 2012 | 12 comments
29.
Scala 2.9 vs 2.10 Performance (markehammons.wordpress.com)
68 points by bertzzie on Dec 2, 2012 | 20 comments
30.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew about UI/UX design?
63 points by akrakesh on Dec 2, 2012 | 58 comments

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