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1. Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?) (amazonaws.com)
549 points by matthodan on Dec 19, 2012 | 165 comments
2. Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook (fbpurity.com)
375 points by bane on Dec 19, 2012 | 193 comments
3. Interactive Guide to Blog Typography (kaikkonendesign.fi)
299 points by stevoo on Dec 19, 2012 | 45 comments
4. EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch' (eff.org)
260 points by jeffool on Dec 19, 2012 | 66 comments
5. The economic return of Iceland has proved that the joke was on Ireland (independent.ie)
238 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 19, 2012 | 205 comments
6. Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street (nytimes.com)
218 points by kunle on Dec 19, 2012 | 231 comments
7. Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes (github.com/twitter)
219 points by tilt on Dec 19, 2012 | 145 comments
8. Migrate Your Instagram Photos to Flickr in One Click. (freethephotos.com)
219 points by thekevinjones on Dec 19, 2012 | 59 comments
9. How do we read code? (theincredibleholk.org)
214 points by erjiang on Dec 19, 2012 | 77 comments
10. Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks (stripe.com)
208 points by sas on Dec 19, 2012 | 81 comments
11. QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia (digia.com)
202 points by easytiger on Dec 19, 2012 | 96 comments
12. Mark Zuckerberg donates $500 million (cnn.com)
187 points by rmason on Dec 19, 2012 | 140 comments
13. Moonbase: A plug and play engine for making web animations (moonbase.com)
172 points by kylebragger on Dec 19, 2012 | 39 comments
14. Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered (wired.com)
158 points by thekevinjones on Dec 19, 2012 | 65 comments
15. Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000 (archive.org)
144 points by jpswade on Dec 19, 2012 | 22 comments
16. Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice (nature.com)
131 points by not_that_noob on Dec 19, 2012 | 129 comments
17. The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical (vincentlaforet.com)
133 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 19, 2012 | 141 comments
18. Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more) (humblebundle.com)
132 points by glogla on Dec 19, 2012 | 56 comments
19. Censorship Lift for “V for Vendetta” Shocks China (globalvoicesonline.org)
128 points by mtgx on Dec 19, 2012 | 92 comments
20. Thinking of starting a Health IT company? Here are top three industry challenges (pandodaily.com)
128 points by rmorrison on Dec 19, 2012 | 110 comments
21. How I Created a Matrix Bullet Time-Style Rig With 50 DSLRs (petapixel.com)
128 points by uptown on Dec 19, 2012 | 54 comments
22. Why have I failed? (bahadir.io)
121 points by bcambel on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments
23. Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus (techcrunch.com)
109 points by relation on Dec 19, 2012 | 42 comments
24. The Octoverse in 2012 (github.com/blog)
110 points by Pr0 on Dec 19, 2012 | 15 comments
25. The TSA's True Focus Isn't Safety - It's Self-Preservation (techdirt.com)
106 points by mtgx on Dec 19, 2012 | 118 comments
26. Programming Your Culture (bhorowitz.com)
91 points by agurkas on Dec 19, 2012 | 27 comments
27. H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows (browserfame.com)
82 points by twapi on Dec 19, 2012 | 64 comments
28. AngelList New Feature: Invest Online (angel.co)
83 points by kumph on Dec 19, 2012 | 18 comments
29. Show HN: Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase (firefeed.io)
81 points by jamest on Dec 19, 2012 | 44 comments
30. Google Santa Tracker (google.com)
80 points by chrisbroadfoot on Dec 19, 2012 | 20 comments

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