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1. Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO (googleblog.blogspot.com)
679 points by andre3k1 on Jan 20, 2011 | 150 comments
2. DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco) (wired.com)
334 points by woodrow on Jan 20, 2011 | 213 comments
3. Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes (donothingfor2minutes.com)
320 points by christophe971 on Jan 20, 2011 | 205 comments
4. How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop (restbackup.com)
286 points by mleonhard on Jan 20, 2011 | 88 comments
5. Learning from Twitter (ejohn.org)
209 points by flapjack on Jan 20, 2011 | 36 comments
6. Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?
184 points by fredoliveira on Jan 20, 2011 | 118 comments
7. What happened to the 11 employees of Microsoft in the 1978 photo (snopes.com)
175 points by Andrew-Dufresne on Jan 20, 2011 | 40 comments
8. Apple’s diabolical plan to screw your iPhone (ifixit.com)
161 points by kgarten on Jan 20, 2011 | 86 comments
9. The miserable programmer paradox (garlicsim.org)
154 points by cool-RR on Jan 20, 2011 | 65 comments
10. Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online (techcrunch.com)
151 points by bjonathan on Jan 20, 2011 | 55 comments
11. A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world (switched.com)
139 points by rkwz on Jan 20, 2011 | 84 comments
12. Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell (newscientist.com)
136 points by jonknee on Jan 20, 2011 | 19 comments
13. Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (engadget.com)
121 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2011 | 51 comments
14. JsFiddle: a REPL for web development (jsfiddle.net)
116 points by mustpax on Jan 20, 2011 | 24 comments
15. To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test (nytimes.com)
112 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2011 | 34 comments
16. Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months (pivotallabs.com)
115 points by cap10morgan on Jan 20, 2011 | 41 comments
17. WePay just built a new feature inspired by and for redditors (reddit.com)
101 points by jmintz on Jan 20, 2011 | 24 comments
18. Maze Generation: Wilson's algorithm (jamisbuck.org)
101 points by duck on Jan 20, 2011 | 11 comments
19. LivingSocial Hacked (deepgreencrystals.com)
92 points by dknecht on Jan 20, 2011 | 28 comments
20. Hiring Front-End Engineers (computedstyle.com)
90 points by martian on Jan 20, 2011 | 52 comments
21. PadMapper Apartment Search (padmapper.com)
89 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2011 | 42 comments
22. Ask HN: Share your experience with a non YC or Techstars incubator.
88 points by redrory on Jan 20, 2011 | 31 comments
23. Google Announces 2010 Results and Management Changes (investor.google.com)
74 points by andre3k1 on Jan 20, 2011 | 11 comments
24. Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser. (kindleworld.blogspot.com)
74 points by typester on Jan 20, 2011 | 33 comments
25. BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol (torrentfreak.com)
72 points by Uncle_Sam on Jan 20, 2011 | 22 comments
26. Collection of mathematics blogs (mathblogging.org)
69 points by timf on Jan 20, 2011 | 6 comments
27. About that slowness on Twitter… (dustindiaz.com)
61 points by rafaelc on Jan 20, 2011 | 9 comments
28. Zaphod - JavaScript written in JavaScript (mozillalabs.com)
57 points by j_baker on Jan 20, 2011 | 10 comments
29. Building a 4 bit computer from Transistors (waitingforfriday.com)
56 points by dholowiski on Jan 20, 2011 | 15 comments
30. Show HN: New Punchd website (like foursquare for the masses) (getpunchd.com)
52 points by cloudwalking on Jan 20, 2011 | 47 comments

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