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1.		A time for silence (lessig.tumblr.com)
		500 points by danielpal on Jan 18, 2013 \| 98 comments
2.		U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz (senate.gov)
		394 points by danso on Jan 18, 2013 \| 141 comments
3.		Twice (aubrey.me)
		257 points by danielpal on Jan 18, 2013 \| 58 comments
4.		Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads (macgasm.net)
		243 points by fcukdigg on Jan 18, 2013 \| 86 comments
5.		A cry for help (heroku.com)
		253 points by alpb on Jan 18, 2013 \| 86 comments
6.		Nokia releases 3D printing files for Lumia phone cases (slashgear.com)
		226 points by kenjackson on Jan 18, 2013 \| 35 comments
7.		ML researcher replies to request to review paper for closed journal (plus.google.com)
		209 points by robrenaud on Jan 18, 2013 \| 25 comments
8.		The Simple Math Behind Early Retirement (mrmoneymustache.com)
		196 points by jrheard on Jan 18, 2013 \| 237 comments
9.		Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World (tomshardware.com)
		190 points by mtgx on Jan 18, 2013 \| 90 comments
10.		Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing (nature.com)
		194 points by ananyob on Jan 18, 2013 \| 43 comments
11.		Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports (bloomberg.com)
		180 points by ssclafani on Jan 18, 2013 \| 122 comments
12.		'I Have a Dream' Posted in Defiance of Copyright for Internet Freedom Day (mashable.com)
		175 points by zoowar on Jan 18, 2013 \| 45 comments
13.		Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990 (wikipedia.org)
		171 points by twoodfin on Jan 18, 2013 \| 71 comments
14.		Go: a nice language with an annoying personality (corte.si)
		151 points by alexdong on Jan 18, 2013 \| 97 comments
15.		Tizen - new Android competitor (tizen.org)
		143 points by mkgobaco on Jan 18, 2013 \| 120 comments
16.		How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal (livescience.com)
		135 points by ck2 on Jan 18, 2013 \| 42 comments
17.		The "Clockwise/Spiral Rule" in C (c-faq.com)
		132 points by llambda on Jan 18, 2013 \| 45 comments
18.		Vipassana: 10 days of solitude and insights gained from it (curiousjuice.com)
		131 points by ca98am79 on Jan 18, 2013 \| 90 comments
19.		Elon Musk offers to help get the grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner back in the air (thenextweb.com)
		127 points by Reltair on Jan 18, 2013 \| 96 comments
20.		Google Declares War on the Password (wired.com)
		115 points by tonfa on Jan 18, 2013 \| 107 comments
21.		Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends (yahoo.com)
		113 points by ytNumbers on Jan 18, 2013 \| 129 comments
22.		Genetic evidence suggests that, four millennia ago, Indians landed in Australia (economist.com)
		104 points by benpbenp on Jan 18, 2013 \| 39 comments
23.		The Bully (cykod.com)
		104 points by cykod on Jan 18, 2013 \| 27 comments
24.		HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked (qz.com)
		106 points by mneedham on Jan 18, 2013 \| 72 comments
25.		Wireframing Tools Suck (colmtuite.com)
		104 points by colmtuite on Jan 18, 2013 \| 68 comments
26.		Psy Curve (wolframalpha.com)
		100 points by jellyksong on Jan 18, 2013 \| 15 comments
27.		A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node (badassjs.com)
		98 points by mariuz on Jan 18, 2013 \| 42 comments
28.		A lawyer's analysis of Bilbo's contract in The Hobbit (wired.com)
		94 points by ValentineC on Jan 18, 2013 \| 21 comments
29.		When Haskell is Faster than C (paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
		93 points by metajack on Jan 18, 2013 \| 115 comments
30.		Colossal Cue Adventure: a Zork-style text-based programming adventure game (cueup.com)
		88 points by rwalker on Jan 18, 2013 \| 41 comments
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