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1. Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich (wsj.com)
325 points by georgecmu on Jan 29, 2011 | 343 comments
2. Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera? (salon.com)
225 points by mih on Jan 29, 2011 | 174 comments
3. Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here. (github.com/github)
188 points by _pius on Jan 29, 2011 | 64 comments
4. As Egypt Erupts, Al Jazeera Offers Its News for Free to Other Networks (wired.com)
151 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 | 69 comments
5. Why I Left Google (jeanhsu.com)
143 points by jeanhsu on Jan 29, 2011 | 115 comments
6. Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 source code leaked (unremote.org)
138 points by etix on Jan 29, 2011 | 76 comments
7. Hunting Hydrogen Balloons with Fireworks (rcexplorer.se)
126 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 | 6 comments
8. 36 hours in North Korea without a guide (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
124 points by mike_esspe on Jan 29, 2011 | 19 comments
9. Camlistore: a new project from Brad Fitzpatrick (camlistore.org)
118 points by joshfraser on Jan 29, 2011 | 22 comments
10. US states: If they were countries (economist.com)
114 points by timr on Jan 29, 2011 | 66 comments
11. I'm finally doing it: bootstrapping my start up.
96 points by jwwest on Jan 29, 2011 | 50 comments
12. 90% of Y Combinator Startups Have Already Accepted The $150k Start Fund Offer (techcrunch.com)
97 points by mjfern on Jan 29, 2011 | 86 comments
13. I will miss the old Y Combinator (scobleizer.com)
90 points by domino on Jan 29, 2011 | 61 comments
14. New HN users: do not overlook the "Lists" feature (news.ycombinator.com)
89 points by gsivil on Jan 29, 2011 | 35 comments
15. AnyLeaf (YC S10) Aggregates And Delivers Personalized Grocery Store Deals (techcrunch.com)
88 points by dirtae on Jan 29, 2011 | 27 comments
16. When The Drones Come Marching In (techcrunch.com)
79 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 | 33 comments
17. Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong (newsweek.com)
76 points by gatsby on Jan 29, 2011 | 42 comments
18. Is Yuri Milner A Threat To Silicon Valley? (techcrunch.com)
74 points by ssclafani on Jan 29, 2011 | 34 comments
19. AngularJS: If HTML were built for writing web apps (angularjs.org)
70 points by phren0logy on Jan 29, 2011 | 18 comments
20. What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us? (theatlantic.com)
69 points by grellas on Jan 29, 2011 | 25 comments
21. A Homebrew CPU from scratch (buildacpu.blogspot.com)
62 points by _b8r0 on Jan 29, 2011 | 10 comments
22. Eloquent Javascript now in print (nostarch.com)
61 points by angrycoder on Jan 29, 2011 | 14 comments
23. Hudson CI developers vote against Oracle control, "Hudson" name... (groups.google.com)
58 points by rst on Jan 29, 2011 | 18 comments
24. Ask PG: Will the Yuri Milner deal affect which startups YC accepts?
55 points by il on Jan 29, 2011 | 16 comments
25. Jason Calacanis' Take on Google's Algorithm Change (mattcutts.com)
59 points by mikeknoop on Jan 29, 2011 | 33 comments
26. Little Known Hacker News (2008) (techcrunch.com)
54 points by solipsist on Jan 29, 2011 | 36 comments
27. Yuri Milner Uses Anybot to Announce Funding for Every Y Combinator Startup (anybots.posterous.com)
50 points by jlhamilton on Jan 29, 2011 | 5 comments
28. $3 million machine learning prize (heritagehealthprize.com)
48 points by timf on Jan 29, 2011 | 25 comments
29. Will an assured $150k investment hurt the spirit of Y Combinator? (thenextweb.com)
47 points by bretpiatt on Jan 29, 2011 | 22 comments
30. Here’s How John Paulson Made $5 Billion Last Year (blogs.forbes.com)
46 points by raphar on Jan 29, 2011 | 12 comments

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