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31.		Twitter Suspends Anonymous’ Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews (betabeat.com)
		78 points by kennedysgarage on Dec 19, 2012 \| 36 comments
32.		The impoliteness of overriding methods (stuffwithstuff.com)
		75 points by munificent on Dec 19, 2012 \| 18 comments
33.		Firefox OS challenges the closed mobile ecosystems (comoyo.github.com)
		74 points by dagingaa on Dec 19, 2012 \| 50 comments
34.		USPTO invalidates key Apple patent used against Samsung (cnet.com)
		70 points by eljaco on Dec 19, 2012 \| 8 comments
35.		Knowledge workers are bad at working – and what to do about it (calnewport.com)
		66 points by michaelochurch on Dec 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
36.		Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? (security.stackexchange.com)
		64 points by eranation on Dec 19, 2012 \| 86 comments
37.		Show HN: An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built (coursecraft.net)
		62 points by thenduks on Dec 19, 2012 \| 26 comments
38.		Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats (torrentfreak.com)
		61 points by Libertatea on Dec 19, 2012 \| 16 comments
39.		Dropbox deployment for front-end devs (backlift.com)
		64 points by colevscode on Dec 19, 2012 \| 10 comments
40.		How We Achieved a .50s Page Load (netdna.com)
		58 points by jdorfman on Dec 19, 2012 \| 15 comments
41.		Things Bosses Wish They Could Tell Employees (linkedin.com)
		53 points by ColinWright on Dec 19, 2012 \| 42 comments
42.		Gittip Anyone on Twitter (gittip.com)
		56 points by whit537 on Dec 19, 2012 \| 15 comments
43.		Bankrupt Kodak sells off patents to investors for $525M (bbc.co.uk)
		50 points by dan1234 on Dec 19, 2012 \| 49 comments
44.		The Immediate Future of Jekyll (parkermoore.de)
		47 points by parkr on Dec 19, 2012 \| 40 comments
45.		THQ Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (kotaku.com)
		47 points by Impossible on Dec 19, 2012 \| 20 comments
46.		Why does this C program compile? (stackoverflow.com)
		45 points by manojlds on Dec 19, 2012 \| 50 comments
47.		U.N. report reveals secret law enforcement techniques (hacker10.com)
		44 points by zoowar on Dec 19, 2012 \| 14 comments
48.		Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes. (wavo.me)
		44 points by glesperance on Dec 19, 2012 \| 48 comments
49.		Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star (bbc.co.uk)
		43 points by morphics on Dec 19, 2012 \| 32 comments
50.		Carmack: Next-gen games will still target 30 fps (develop-online.net)
		43 points by Pr0 on Dec 19, 2012 \| 57 comments
51.		Helping crowdfunded projects deliver on time and keep their backers happy (backerkit.tumblr.com)
		40 points by rosanna on Dec 19, 2012 \| 10 comments
52.		Show HN: Soundkeep (Github for music) (soundkeep.com)
		44 points by joshontheweb on Dec 19, 2012 \| 29 comments
53.		Kindle Fire HD: Much Better Than Original Kindle Fire (useit.com)
		38 points by nradov on Dec 19, 2012 \| 21 comments
54.		Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away (news.sciencemag.org)
		38 points by gautamc on Dec 19, 2012 \| 18 comments
55.		Kamcord raises $1.5M from a16z, Google Ventures to record mobile gameplays (techcrunch.com)
		36 points by arathnam on Dec 19, 2012 \| 2 comments
56.		Web browser market share of all times visualized (figurepool.com)
		36 points by durman on Dec 19, 2012 \| 43 comments
57.		Why use NancyFX? (jonathanchannon.com)
		35 points by jchannon on Dec 19, 2012 \| 7 comments
58.		Linux is Burning My Laptop (crossplatform.net)
		34 points by cplat on Dec 19, 2012 \| 54 comments
59.		'Black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management (stanford.edu)
		34 points by spathak on Dec 19, 2012 \| 50 comments
60.		What is Do Not Track (DNT)? An illustrated guide (whatisdnt.com)
		31 points by rjim86 on Dec 19, 2012 \| 30 comments
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