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1.		Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk (lostechies.com)
		418 points by derickbailey on Dec 14, 2012 \| 180 comments
2.		Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light (amnh.org)
		322 points by tmoretti on Dec 14, 2012 \| 68 comments
3.		Want to learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code (shockoe.com)
		322 points by tomasien on Dec 14, 2012 \| 178 comments
4.		Ray Kurzweil joins Google (kurzweilai.net)
		312 points by dumitrue on Dec 14, 2012 \| 163 comments
5.		Brython - Python to Javascript translator (brython.info)
		270 points by toni on Dec 14, 2012 \| 68 comments
6.		EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill (eff.org)
		225 points by mtgx on Dec 14, 2012 \| 42 comments
7.		Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts (support.google.com)
		188 points by HaloZero on Dec 14, 2012 \| 150 comments
8.		Moravec's paradox (wikipedia.org)
		188 points by cachehit on Dec 14, 2012 \| 43 comments
9.		Tcl the misunderstood (2006) (antirez.com)
		181 points by zeitg3ist on Dec 14, 2012 \| 108 comments
10.		Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days (freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com)
		169 points by profquail on Dec 14, 2012 \| 24 comments
11.		Why we still love board games (timharford.com)
		160 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2012 \| 135 comments
12.		Working alone sucks (fleetadmiral.tumblr.com)
		153 points by labaraka on Dec 14, 2012 \| 112 comments
13.		Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon (extremetech.com)
		151 points by Libertatea on Dec 14, 2012 \| 138 comments
14.		A vim interface for gmail: Vmail (danielchoi.com)
		145 points by ezl on Dec 14, 2012 \| 75 comments
15.		Why We’re Building Collections (collections.me)
		144 points by jordanlee on Dec 14, 2012 \| 85 comments
16.		Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows (alfredapp.com)
		129 points by neilmiddleton on Dec 14, 2012 \| 18 comments
17.		Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content (gigaom.com)
		126 points by mtgx on Dec 14, 2012 \| 36 comments
18.		A Bad UI Pattern (kapilkale.com)
		123 points by kapilkale on Dec 14, 2012 \| 55 comments
19.		Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut (cnn.com)
		117 points by KenCochrane on Dec 14, 2012 \| 322 comments
20.		Web Discussions: Flat by Design (codinghorror.com)
		111 points by stalled on Dec 14, 2012 \| 84 comments
21.		Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books (singularityhub.com)
		79 points by jamesbritt on Dec 14, 2012 \| 32 comments
22.		Stripe adds two-factor auth (stripe.com)
		78 points by pc on Dec 14, 2012 \| 45 comments
23.		Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old (launchside.com)
		72 points by colbyaley on Dec 14, 2012 \| 67 comments
24.		Google launches 18 new Google+ features (gplusproject.appspot.com)
		69 points by HugoDias on Dec 14, 2012 \| 19 comments
25.		How 5 years of reading HN enabled me to build the website for my business (czstrong.com)
		64 points by czstrong on Dec 14, 2012 \| 27 comments
26.		Have Scientists Found Two Different Higgs Bosons? (scientificamerican.com)
		63 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2012 \| 47 comments
27.		US, Canada, Australia and UK refuse to sign UN's communications treaty (bbc.co.uk)
		64 points by yuxt on Dec 14, 2012 \| 27 comments
28.		Gary McKinnon will not face UK charges (bbc.co.uk)
		63 points by neilmiddleton on Dec 14, 2012 \| 11 comments
29.		Show HN: Introducing KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy (jamiealexandre.com)
		61 points by jamalex on Dec 14, 2012 \| 3 comments
30.		The open-source "svblte like" blogging platform (simvla.net)
		60 points by simvla on Dec 14, 2012 \| 54 comments
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