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1. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (damienkatz.net)
431 points by daschl1 on Jan 10, 2013 | 384 comments
2. Save your eyes, start using f.lux (stereopsis.com)
423 points by jarospisak on Jan 10, 2013 | 255 comments
3. Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away (rapid7.com)
398 points by tptacek on Jan 10, 2013 | 166 comments
4. IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It (theatlantic.com)
388 points by mxfh on Jan 10, 2013 | 151 comments
5. Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing (daniellemorrill.com)
359 points by dmor on Jan 10, 2013 | 139 comments
6. How to Fold a Julia Fractal (acko.net)
325 points by drudru on Jan 10, 2013 | 49 comments
7. Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don’t worry about it (gigaom.com)
321 points by rmk2 on Jan 10, 2013 | 152 comments
8. Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free (amazon.com)
164 points by derpenxyne on Jan 10, 2013 | 113 comments
9. Google Flu Trends (google.org)
158 points by sethbannon on Jan 10, 2013 | 25 comments
10. Ruby on Rails Bootcamp in Seattle (codefellows.org)
158 points by danso on Jan 10, 2013 | 118 comments
11. More on Postgres Performance (craigkerstiens.com)
154 points by icey on Jan 10, 2013 | 42 comments
12. Improved wikis with more markup options (blog.bitbucket.org)
155 points by amarsahinovic on Jan 10, 2013 | 23 comments
13. GIMP 2.9/2.10 Feature Preview (gimpusers.com)
155 points by diminish on Jan 10, 2013 | 64 comments
14. The Minimum Viable Kitchen (priceonomics.com)
153 points by rohin on Jan 10, 2013 | 206 comments
15. How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife? (workplace.stackexchange.com)
147 points by DigitalSea on Jan 10, 2013 | 196 comments
16. Instacart adds Trader Joe's (thenextweb.com)
146 points by apoorvamehta on Jan 10, 2013 | 76 comments
17. Google Effect (wikipedia.org)
137 points by rsiqueira on Jan 10, 2013 | 52 comments
18. New Zero Day Java Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild (thenextweb.com)
129 points by derpenxyne on Jan 10, 2013 | 89 comments
19. Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t (davidtate.org)
107 points by tate on Jan 10, 2013 | 29 comments
20. Zurb Acquires Forrst (zurb.com)
109 points by ojr on Jan 10, 2013 | 33 comments
21. How to price something (37signals.com)
96 points by mh_ on Jan 10, 2013 | 59 comments
22. Rejection Therapy: A Hundred Days of 'No' (businessweek.com)
95 points by eplanit on Jan 10, 2013 | 43 comments
23. Your ATM does not use transactions (ayende.com)
85 points by sabya on Jan 10, 2013 | 57 comments
24. How make your web-app become available faster: Let go of the DOM Ready events (thanpol.as)
81 points by thanasisp on Jan 10, 2013 | 19 comments
25. Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs (archive.org)
79 points by cleverjake on Jan 10, 2013 | 36 comments
26. Visualising the Ubuntu Package Repository (tech-foo.blogspot.se)
79 points by dagw on Jan 10, 2013 | 4 comments
27. Ex-CIA analyst finds mysterious Chinese complex on Google Earth (wired.co.uk)
74 points by antr on Jan 10, 2013 | 30 comments
28. An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (2006) (drdobbs.com)
76 points by xSwag on Jan 10, 2013 | 5 comments
29. Colleges lose pricing power (wsj.com)
68 points by anigbrowl on Jan 10, 2013 | 67 comments
30. Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain (iamexec.com)
68 points by leoalmighty on Jan 10, 2013 | 28 comments

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