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1. US employee 'outsourced job to China' (bbc.co.uk)
383 points by anons2011 on Jan 16, 2013 | 190 comments
2. Aaron Swartz's Lawyer: MIT Refused Plea Deal Without Jail Time (gothamist.com)
348 points by rayiner on Jan 16, 2013 | 169 comments
3. Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Aaron's Law [pdf] (house.gov)
349 points by luigi on Jan 16, 2013 | 166 comments
4. Thorium Reactors (rein.pk)
328 points by ivolo on Jan 16, 2013 | 126 comments
5. Prosecutor pursuing Aaron Swartz linked to suicide of another hacker (rt.com)
296 points by nighthawk on Jan 16, 2013 | 94 comments
6. Introducing HelloSign for Gmail (hellosign.com)
297 points by guiseppecalzone on Jan 16, 2013 | 140 comments
7. iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting Out (stuartkhall.com)
283 points by discovr on Jan 16, 2013 | 104 comments
8. What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers? (highscalability.com)
274 points by carlos on Jan 16, 2013 | 172 comments
9. The If-by-whiskey fallacy (wikipedia.org)
268 points by gizzlon on Jan 16, 2013 | 97 comments
10. My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins (henriquebarroso.com)
260 points by phatbyte on Jan 16, 2013 | 156 comments
11. Lawmakers slam DOJ prosecution of Swartz as 'ridiculous, absurd' (thehill.com)
236 points by wilfra on Jan 16, 2013 | 63 comments
12. Squash (squash.io)
229 points by vital101 on Jan 16, 2013 | 81 comments
13. 3 Weeks already, $0 income – what are we doing wrong? (buildnrun.com)
185 points by gumbo on Jan 16, 2013 | 113 comments
14. White House raises petition signature threshold to 100K (cnet.com)
184 points by Wingman4l7 on Jan 16, 2013 | 129 comments
15. Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source (wireframeapp.com)
179 points by eduardordm on Jan 16, 2013 | 125 comments
16. 25,000 People Sign Petition to Remove Aaron Swartz's Prosecutors (mashable.com)
168 points by jeffreyfox on Jan 16, 2013 | 48 comments
17. My Web Series Was Suspended by YouTube Without Explanation (alexjmann.tumblr.com)
164 points by alexjmann on Jan 16, 2013 | 61 comments
18. Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month (mashable.com)
146 points by rainmaker23 on Jan 16, 2013 | 126 comments
19. Kid Sends Blunt Cover Letter and Now People are Trying to Hire Him (yahoo.com)
141 points by fam on Jan 16, 2013 | 87 comments
20. Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People (whitehouse.gov)
124 points by imjared on Jan 16, 2013 | 133 comments
21. Developer Auction out of beta; accepting developers from all backgrounds in US (developerauction.com)
116 points by allangrant on Jan 16, 2013 | 73 comments
22. Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS (clustrix.com)
115 points by sergei on Jan 16, 2013 | 38 comments
23. Dynamically generate HTML/CSS for forms, icons, buttons (uiparade.com)
112 points by lambtron on Jan 16, 2013 | 27 comments
24. MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz (cryptome.org)
106 points by mrb on Jan 16, 2013 | 64 comments
25. We should retire Aaron's number (scripting.com)
105 points by davewiner on Jan 16, 2013 | 40 comments
26. Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service (eventbrite.com)
104 points by guan on Jan 16, 2013
27. Wikimedia Launches WikiVoyage (wikivoyage.org)
102 points by noahtkoch on Jan 16, 2013 | 22 comments
28. If Everyone Knew (ifeveryoneknew.com)
88 points by rooshdi on Jan 16, 2013 | 18 comments
29. Towards Learning From Losing Aaron Swartz: Part 2 (stanford.edu)
90 points by tptacek on Jan 16, 2013 | 15 comments
30. Aaron Swartz & A Culture of Denial: Depression & Suicide in Tech (psychcentral.com)
89 points by tgrzinic on Jan 16, 2013 | 47 comments

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