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1.
I don't want to download your app (newcome.wordpress.com)
316 points by dnewcome on Dec 30, 2012 | 169 comments
2.
WTF Google, you stole my $5 (programmerstrouble.blogspot.com)
210 points by jtwaleson on Dec 30, 2012 | 114 comments
3.
Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991 (dustinkirkland.wordpress.com)
208 points by dmix on Dec 30, 2012 | 120 comments
4.
Getting better and finding happiness through cycling (duruk.net)
179 points by cancan on Dec 30, 2012 | 99 comments
5.
ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” (torrentfreak.com)
171 points by spdy on Dec 30, 2012 | 8 comments
6.
PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP (github.com/ircmaxell)
165 points by dbaupp on Dec 30, 2012 | 47 comments
7.
JavaScript: Clarifying The Keyword ‘this’ (henrycode.tumblr.com)
155 points by henryzhu on Dec 30, 2012 | 72 comments
8.
Laconic History of the World (hugepic.io)
149 points by mparramon on Dec 30, 2012 | 80 comments
9.
How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty (detectify.com)
145 points by fransr on Dec 30, 2012 | 43 comments
10.
Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy (planscope.io)
137 points by bdunn on Dec 30, 2012 | 99 comments
11.
FreeBSD 9.1 Release Announcement (freebsd.org)
134 points by udp on Dec 30, 2012 | 61 comments
12.
Learn Clojure with Clojure Koans (clojurekoans.com)
121 points by oskarth on Dec 30, 2012 | 32 comments
13.
Chomsky: Work, Learning and Freedom (newleftproject.org)
122 points by robdoherty2 on Dec 30, 2012 | 76 comments
14.
Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles (useost.com)
112 points by jlewis_st on Dec 30, 2012 | 52 comments
15.
Typing "Sell" in Google Finance redirected to Apple Inc. (google.com)
109 points by nh on Dec 30, 2012 | 68 comments
16.
Top Unix Command Line Utilities (coldflake.com)
109 points by coldgrnd on Dec 30, 2012 | 63 comments
17.
Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR (valvesoftware.com)
99 points by mwilcox on Dec 30, 2012 | 19 comments
18.
Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices (pingdom.com)
99 points by dave1010uk on Dec 30, 2012 | 88 comments
19.
St: Simple terminal implementation for X (suckless.org)
91 points by amarsahinovic on Dec 30, 2012 | 39 comments
20.
Post-mortem of Christmas Eve Amazon ELB outage (amazon.com)
90 points by cperciva on Dec 30, 2012 | 38 comments
21.
How The Huang Brothers Bootstrapped Guitar Hero To A Billion Dollar Business (techcrunch.com)
83 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 30, 2012 | 11 comments
22.
Nitpicker - an overly picky language style checker (nitpickertool.com)
85 points by albertzeyer on Dec 30, 2012 | 49 comments
23.
Android X server (my20percent.wordpress.com)
83 points by pmarin on Dec 30, 2012 | 34 comments
24.
Pycoder's Weekly Python Projects of 2012 (pycoders.com)
82 points by mgrouchy on Dec 30, 2012 | 9 comments
25.
Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies, aged 103 (haaretz.com)
79 points by wslh on Dec 30, 2012 | 23 comments
26.
Why this Silence About The Pirate Bay as a Distributor of Culture? (torrentfreak.com)
75 points by Pr0 on Dec 30, 2012 | 101 comments
27.
Ask HN: What are your daily must-read sites?
70 points by mitgux on Dec 30, 2012 | 41 comments
28.
No, Linux won't be easy to run on a Microsoft Surface (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
68 points by Garbage on Dec 30, 2012 | 64 comments
29.
Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness [audio] (onbeing.org)
66 points by slamdunc on Dec 30, 2012 | 11 comments
30.
Why Advertising on Mobile Sucks, From the Marketer’s Perspective (distributionhacks.com)
61 points by dmor on Dec 30, 2012 | 29 comments

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