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1.		Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. (mashable.com)
		537 points by bluetidepro on Jan 24, 2013 \| 357 comments
2.		"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it" (erlang.org)
		506 points by chops on Jan 24, 2013 \| 176 comments
3.		I'm sorry (programmingtour.blogspot.com)
		463 points by eranation on Jan 24, 2013 \| 177 comments
4.		An Amaz-ing Resume (phildub.com)
		336 points by Gmo on Jan 24, 2013 \| 112 comments
5.		Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel (plus.google.com)
		251 points by aurelianito on Jan 24, 2013 \| 33 comments
6.		Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States (torrentfreak.com)
		226 points by fraqed on Jan 24, 2013 \| 97 comments
7.		How an unsigned rapper changed music (silentattraction.wordpress.com)
		209 points by loso on Jan 24, 2013 \| 168 comments
8.		Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29 (vice.com)
		197 points by ColinWright on Jan 24, 2013 \| 79 comments
9.		Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’ (factual.com)
		197 points by dirtyvagabond on Jan 24, 2013 \| 108 comments
10.		Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins (eugenewei.com)
		187 points by tortilla on Jan 24, 2013 \| 110 comments
11.		If You Call Out Bad Code, Make Sure It's Bad First (naildrivin5.com)
		174 points by dpaluy on Jan 24, 2013 \| 128 comments
12.		Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help
		164 points by christmasgift on Jan 24, 2013 \| 39 comments
13.		John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing (arstechnica.com)
		153 points by lispython on Jan 24, 2013 \| 67 comments
14.		Open Letter to Skype from Internet Activists, Journalists and Academics (skypeopenletter.com)
		153 points by magikarp on Jan 24, 2013 \| 67 comments
15.		Startup Visa coming to Canada April 1st (startupnorth.ca)
		152 points by dmix on Jan 24, 2013 \| 69 comments
16.		Zen Writing Mode (github.com/blog)
		154 points by rjsamson on Jan 24, 2013 \| 55 comments
17.		Petition the Whitehouse to make unlocking cell phones legal (whitehouse.gov)
		135 points by sinak on Jan 24, 2013 \| 35 comments
18.		Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions (forbes.com/sites/chunkamui)
		129 points by mtgx on Jan 24, 2013 \| 189 comments
19.		Belkin Buys Linksys from Cisco (allthingsd.com)
		126 points by rkudeshi on Jan 24, 2013 \| 96 comments
20.		Helium – Like Bootstrap, but in 30kb (github.com/cbrauckmuller)
		125 points by johnx123-up on Jan 24, 2013 \| 40 comments
21.		Hydrogen made with muons reveals proton size conundrum (arstechnica.com)
		123 points by iProject on Jan 24, 2013 \| 40 comments
22.		Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?
		113 points by syedkarim on Jan 24, 2013 \| 147 comments
23.		You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? (news.harvard.edu)
		112 points by krg on Jan 24, 2013 \| 20 comments
24.		SpaceX to Launch Private Astronauts in 2015 (spacesafetymagazine.com)
		113 points by jk4930 on Jan 24, 2013 \| 30 comments
25.		Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products (neohapsis.com)
		98 points by alxndr on Jan 24, 2013 \| 51 comments
26.		Any HN readers have ideas for improving gun safety?
		97 points by pg on Jan 24, 2013 \| 180 comments
27.		Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses (forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron)
		95 points by fawce on Jan 24, 2013 \| 60 comments
28.		One Billion Heartbeats (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
		95 points by jchavannes on Jan 24, 2013 \| 35 comments
29.		Thredis is Redis + SQL + Threads (thredis.org)
		94 points by janerik on Jan 24, 2013 \| 20 comments
30.		CircuitHub (YC W12) Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Electrical Parts (techcrunch.com)
		94 points by kg4lod on Jan 24, 2013 \| 27 comments
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