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1.		Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero (empiricalzeal.com)
		266 points by aatish on Jan 5, 2013 \| 41 comments
2.		Math notes to take you from one year of college calculus to grad student level (ucr.edu)
		217 points by crntaylor on Jan 5, 2013 \| 63 comments
3.		Why I Program in Go (tech.t9i.in)
		204 points by bcl on Jan 5, 2013 \| 168 comments
4.		Who wrote the 'Death Note' script? (gwern.net)
		183 points by gwern on Jan 5, 2013 \| 79 comments
5.		English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited (norvig.com)
		180 points by phenylene on Jan 5, 2013 \| 26 comments
6.		My Father's "Eviscerated" work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out (worldcrunch.com)
		153 points by porker on Jan 5, 2013 \| 191 comments
7.		The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse (rachelbythebay.com)
		151 points by chuhnk on Jan 5, 2013 \| 111 comments
8.		Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework (justspamjustin.github.com)
		147 points by Hirvesh on Jan 5, 2013 \| 31 comments
9.		Deconstructing K&R C (2010) (learncodethehardway.org)
		149 points by experiment0 on Jan 5, 2013 \| 128 comments
10.		Be Wrong as Fast as You Can (nytimes.com)
		146 points by haberdasher on Jan 5, 2013 \| 18 comments
11.		All My Life I’ve Been Told I Was Special. It Was A Lie. (kotaku.com)
		139 points by mtoddh on Jan 5, 2013 \| 157 comments
12.		Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit (berbaquero.github.com)
		132 points by cheeaun on Jan 5, 2013 \| 95 comments
13.		AngularStrap - Bootstrap directives for AngularJS (mgcrea.github.com)
		133 points by olouv on Jan 5, 2013 \| 29 comments
14.		Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell (github.com/oxplot)
		121 points by oxplot on Jan 5, 2013 \| 35 comments
15.		The Factory Floor, Part 1 of 4: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM) (bunniestudios.com)
		114 points by Danieru on Jan 5, 2013 \| 26 comments
16.		A Million First Dates (theatlantic.com)
		107 points by Anon84 on Jan 5, 2013 \| 144 comments
17.		The Software Millionaire Next Door (dedasys.com)
		103 points by davidw on Jan 5, 2013 \| 49 comments
18.		Math even mathematicians don't understand (the sequel) (boston.com)
		95 points by ColinWright on Jan 5, 2013 \| 86 comments
19.		Why Probabilistic Programming Matters (zinkov.com)
		91 points by joeyespo on Jan 5, 2013 \| 14 comments
20.		Awakening (during anesthesia) (theatlantic.com)
		75 points by llambda on Jan 5, 2013 \| 44 comments
21.		An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone (androidpolice.com)
		77 points by mmastrac on Jan 5, 2013 \| 48 comments
22.		Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition (thenextweb.com)
		76 points by coloneltcb on Jan 5, 2013 \| 83 comments
23.		Disney Freaks Out Over Patents That May Mean It Can't Keep 3Ding Old Movies (techdirt.com)
		69 points by Steer on Jan 5, 2013 \| 10 comments
24.		Reasons to be excited about Java in 2013 (jaxenter.com)
		70 points by eranation on Jan 5, 2013 \| 64 comments
25.		Health regulatory and advocacy groups are deliberately corrupted (arstechnica.com)
		69 points by Pr0 on Jan 5, 2013 \| 14 comments
26.		Cheddar is For Sale (cheddarapp.com)
		66 points by samsoffes on Jan 5, 2013 \| 54 comments
27.		Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?
		65 points by AncoraImparo on Jan 5, 2013 \| 70 comments
28.		Should error messages apologize? (ux.stackexchange.com)
		65 points by laurent123456 on Jan 5, 2013 \| 46 comments
29.		Hacker news in your terminal (github.com/socketubs)
		64 points by Socketubs on Jan 5, 2013 \| 33 comments
30.		Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will (thenextweb.com)
		64 points by derpenxyne on Jan 5, 2013 \| 71 comments
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