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1. I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping... (rogerebert.com)
521 points by benjaminfox on Dec 29, 2011 | 278 comments
2. What Makes Android Revolutionary (osnews.com)
246 points by thomholwerda on Dec 29, 2011 | 146 comments
3. Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days (cnn.com)
232 points by tokenadult on Dec 29, 2011 | 164 comments
4. SOPA Opponents May Go Nuclear (cnet.com)
221 points by thematt on Dec 29, 2011 | 118 comments
5. The Dangerous Effects of Reading (davidtate.org)
214 points by tate on Dec 29, 2011 | 70 comments
6. Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo? (plus.google.com)
187 points by zeppelin_7 on Dec 29, 2011 | 131 comments
7. Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th (gandi.net)
179 points by mrcalzone on Dec 29, 2011 | 57 comments
8. Hadoop Reaches 1.0 (apache.org)
166 points by imalolz on Dec 29, 2011 | 28 comments
9. HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices (htcdev.com)
150 points by aurelianito on Dec 29, 2011 | 43 comments
10. Tom's Hardware's take on SOPA (tomshardware.com)
144 points by masonhensley on Dec 29, 2011 | 14 comments
11. Show HN: The Honeybadger (gethoneybadger.com)
147 points by jaequery on Dec 29, 2011 | 55 comments
12. German authorities sent 440,783 SMS to track citizens w/o their knowledge (f-secure.com)
130 points by weinzierl on Dec 29, 2011 | 32 comments
13. Megaupload to Universal: You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do (torrentfreak.com)
118 points by Garbage on Dec 29, 2011 | 21 comments
14. Reddit Users to Target Supporters of SOPA in Congress After GoDaddy (forbes.com/sites/erikkain)
118 points by mattvot on Dec 29, 2011 | 30 comments
15. Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?
118 points by B-Scan on Dec 29, 2011 | 142 comments
16. Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA (techcrunch.com)
111 points by sethbannon on Dec 29, 2011 | 48 comments
17. Namecheap to Double EFF Donation if 25,000 Transfers Made Today (elliotsblog.com)
99 points by tnd on Dec 29, 2011 | 35 comments
18. Dropbox: the new file system of the web (collaborable.com)
98 points by ericingram on Dec 29, 2011 | 60 comments
19. How to setup Stripe payments with node.js (catonmat.net)
99 points by pkrumins on Dec 29, 2011 | 13 comments
20. Recruiting programmers to your startup (cdixon.org)
97 points by revorad on Dec 29, 2011 | 40 comments
21. 2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties (wired.com)
93 points by antoviaque on Dec 29, 2011 | 17 comments
22. What we're *really* afraid of (amirkhella.com)
92 points by amirkhella on Dec 29, 2011 | 18 comments
23. Supercolliding a PHP array (inserting 65536 elements takes 30 seconds) (nikic.github.com)
88 points by nikic on Dec 29, 2011 | 48 comments
24. Namecheap's "Move Your Domains Day" With $1 Donation to EFF on Transfers (elliotsblog.com)
88 points by tnd on Dec 29, 2011 | 14 comments
25. How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur (techcrunch.com)
84 points by sbashyal on Dec 29, 2011 | 9 comments
26. Distributed Hash Tables, Part I (linuxjournal.com)
81 points by antoviaque on Dec 29, 2011 | 7 comments
27. Backend-as-a-service for web apps? (davewasmer.tumblr.com)
80 points by davewasmer on Dec 29, 2011 | 63 comments
28. How to Make a Massively Cross-Platform Game (brokenfunction.com)
80 points by markokocic on Dec 29, 2011 | 39 comments
29. Free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine with source code (sourceforge.net)
78 points by zeratul on Dec 29, 2011 | 12 comments
30. How Not To Run An A/B Test (evanmiller.org)
71 points by llambda on Dec 29, 2011 | 15 comments

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