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1. What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project (harthur.wordpress.com)
1331 points by luigi on Jan 24, 2013 | 781 comments
2. Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. (mashable.com)
537 points by bluetidepro on Jan 24, 2013 | 357 comments
3. "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
4. I'm sorry (programmingtour.blogspot.com)
463 points by eranation on Jan 24, 2013 | 177 comments
5. An Amaz-ing Resume (phildub.com)
336 points by Gmo on Jan 24, 2013 | 112 comments
6. Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel (plus.google.com)
251 points by aurelianito on Jan 24, 2013 | 33 comments
7. Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States (torrentfreak.com)
226 points by fraqed on Jan 24, 2013 | 97 comments
8. How an unsigned rapper changed music (silentattraction.wordpress.com)
209 points by loso on Jan 24, 2013 | 168 comments
9. Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29 (vice.com)
197 points by ColinWright on Jan 24, 2013 | 79 comments
10. Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’ (factual.com)
197 points by dirtyvagabond on Jan 24, 2013 | 108 comments
11. Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins (eugenewei.com)
187 points by tortilla on Jan 24, 2013 | 110 comments
12. If You Call Out Bad Code, Make Sure It's Bad First (naildrivin5.com)
174 points by dpaluy on Jan 24, 2013 | 128 comments
13. Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help
164 points by christmasgift on Jan 24, 2013 | 39 comments
14. John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing (arstechnica.com)
153 points by lispython on Jan 24, 2013 | 67 comments
15. Open Letter to Skype from Internet Activists, Journalists and Academics (skypeopenletter.com)
153 points by magikarp on Jan 24, 2013 | 67 comments
16. Startup Visa coming to Canada April 1st (startupnorth.ca)
152 points by dmix on Jan 24, 2013 | 69 comments
17. Zen Writing Mode (github.com/blog)
154 points by rjsamson on Jan 24, 2013 | 55 comments
18. Petition the Whitehouse to make unlocking cell phones legal (whitehouse.gov)
135 points by sinak on Jan 24, 2013 | 35 comments
19. Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions (forbes.com/sites/chunkamui)
129 points by mtgx on Jan 24, 2013 | 189 comments
20. Belkin Buys Linksys from Cisco (allthingsd.com)
126 points by rkudeshi on Jan 24, 2013 | 96 comments
21. Helium – Like Bootstrap, but in 30kb (github.com/cbrauckmuller)
125 points by johnx123-up on Jan 24, 2013 | 40 comments
22. Hydrogen made with muons reveals proton size conundrum (arstechnica.com)
123 points by iProject on Jan 24, 2013 | 40 comments
23. Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?
113 points by syedkarim on Jan 24, 2013 | 147 comments
24. You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? (news.harvard.edu)
112 points by krg on Jan 24, 2013 | 20 comments
25. SpaceX to Launch Private Astronauts in 2015 (spacesafetymagazine.com)
113 points by jk4930 on Jan 24, 2013 | 30 comments
26. Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products (neohapsis.com)
98 points by alxndr on Jan 24, 2013 | 51 comments
27. Any HN readers have ideas for improving gun safety?
97 points by pg on Jan 24, 2013 | 180 comments
28. Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses (forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron)
95 points by fawce on Jan 24, 2013 | 60 comments
29. One Billion Heartbeats (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
95 points by jchavannes on Jan 24, 2013 | 35 comments
30. Thredis is Redis + SQL + Threads (thredis.org)
94 points by janerik on Jan 24, 2013 | 20 comments

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