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1. Maddox - I hope SOPA passes (xmission.com)
569 points by CWIZO on Jan 19, 2012 | 198 comments
2. A Word to the Resourceful (paulgraham.com)
463 points by anateus on Jan 19, 2012 | 168 comments
3. The Trello Tech Stack (fogcreek.com)
431 points by elehack on Jan 19, 2012 | 93 comments
4. Death sentence for Iranian web programmer (thenextweb.com)
369 points by waitwhat on Jan 19, 2012 | 109 comments
5. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music (rt.com)
365 points by coupdegrace on Jan 19, 2012 | 97 comments
6. Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress (seclists.org)
316 points by Jonhoo on Jan 19, 2012 | 88 comments
7. Playing chicken with cat.jpg (daemonology.net)
288 points by cperciva on Jan 19, 2012 | 104 comments
8. Vim ported to iOS (applidium.com)
288 points by stevelosh on Jan 19, 2012 | 127 comments
9. How Google Code Search Worked (swtch.com)
287 points by basugasubaku on Jan 19, 2012 | 45 comments
10. The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA (venomousporridge.com)
281 points by pooriaazimi on Jan 19, 2012 | 136 comments
11. Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it (broadmuse.com)
271 points by willdamas on Jan 19, 2012 | 317 comments
12. Rand Paul promises to filibuster PIPA (dailycaller.com)
262 points by dataminer on Jan 19, 2012 | 23 comments
13. The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial (xentac.net)
182 points by xentac on Jan 19, 2012 | 76 comments
14. PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed (arstechnica.com)
181 points by llambda on Jan 19, 2012 | 45 comments
15. Courtney Love does the math (2000) (salon.com)
175 points by dmor on Jan 19, 2012 | 36 comments
16. This game was made entirely in css (no javascript) (jsrun.it)
170 points by Feanim on Jan 19, 2012 | 50 comments
17. Kodak files for bankruptcy (marketwatch.com)
164 points by leak on Jan 19, 2012 | 70 comments
18. Julian Assange Rolling Stone interview (rollingstone.com)
162 points by libraryatnight on Jan 19, 2012 | 32 comments
19. Swizz Beats is the CEO of Megaupload (factmag.com)
150 points by bjonathan on Jan 19, 2012 | 31 comments
20. Anonymous strikes back: takes down DoJ, Universal, RIAA and MPAA sites (geek.com)
128 points by 11031a on Jan 19, 2012 | 31 comments
21. Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks" (arstechnica.com)
116 points by FluidDjango on Jan 19, 2012 | 181 comments
22. Machine Learning on the Cheap and Easy (thunderboltlabs.com)
110 points by thunderboltlabs on Jan 19, 2012 | 15 comments
23. Redditor Dr. Michael Ham announces his candidacy for US senate (New Mexico) (reddit.com)
109 points by x3c on Jan 19, 2012 | 20 comments
24. Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50. (quixeychallenge.com)
111 points by quixey on Jan 19, 2012 | 33 comments
25. Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout (blog.mozilla.com)
102 points by mbrubeck on Jan 19, 2012 | 5 comments
26. Idea reach and the cofounder myth (swombat.com)
98 points by noelsequeira on Jan 19, 2012 | 20 comments
27. Larry Page: Google+ now has 90 million users globally (thenextweb.com)
99 points by MRonney on Jan 19, 2012 | 52 comments
28. Jvm performance tuning (notes) (umbrant.com)
94 points by rxin on Jan 19, 2012 | 8 comments
29. To Catch a Spammer (blackhat.me)
83 points by tehguy on Jan 19, 2012 | 25 comments
30. Hollywood fights Internet protests with... TV ad, billboard, radio spot (arstechnica.com)
81 points by evo_9 on Jan 19, 2012 | 45 comments

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