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1. NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’ (nytimes.com)
383 points by tysone on Jan 6, 2011 | 203 comments
2. RIP Bill Zeller (metafilter.com)
370 points by joshfraser on Jan 6, 2011 | 138 comments
3. Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search (marco.org)
327 points by ihodes on Jan 6, 2011 | 178 comments
4. Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women (theatlantic.com)
242 points by wallacrw on Jan 6, 2011 | 152 comments
5. Mac App Store: Open for Business (apple.com)
204 points by shawndumas on Jan 6, 2011 | 277 comments
6. New "How Airbnb Works" video (shot at 13 locations around world) (airbnb.com)
190 points by brianchesky on Jan 6, 2011 | 56 comments
7. Trimensional: 3D Scanner for iPhone (trimensional.com)
153 points by GrantS on Jan 6, 2011 | 36 comments
8. Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup (500startups.com)
146 points by bmull on Jan 6, 2011 | 181 comments
9. Quantifying The Value Of A College Degree (By Major) (kalzumeus.com)
143 points by patio11 on Jan 6, 2011 | 73 comments
10. CES2011: The end of the PC era (asymco.com)
138 points by roadnottaken on Jan 6, 2011 | 74 comments
11. Retracted autism/vaccine study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds (cnn.com)
133 points by there on Jan 6, 2011 | 127 comments
12. The "vaccination causes autism" fraud (theincidentaleconomist.com)
123 points by gronkie on Jan 6, 2011 | 78 comments
13. We are in the AOL days of social networking (buddycloud.com)
122 points by imaginator on Jan 6, 2011 | 62 comments
14. Things You Might Not Know about jQuery (oreilly.com)
118 points by fogus on Jan 6, 2011 | 26 comments
15. Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Facebook, and the Next Bubble? (nytimes.com)
114 points by donohoe on Jan 6, 2011 | 30 comments
16. US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked (techdirt.com)
105 points by thedoctor on Jan 6, 2011 | 22 comments
17. List of languages that compile to JS (github.com/jashkenas)
96 points by clyfe on Jan 6, 2011 | 55 comments
18. FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3 (freebsd.org)
91 points by requinot59 on Jan 6, 2011 | 17 comments
19. Phil Hagelberg on Emacs new package manager. (technomancy.us)
83 points by pdelgallego on Jan 6, 2011 | 14 comments
20. Google Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox (directededge.com)
84 points by wheels on Jan 6, 2011 | 35 comments
21. Digikey products now listed on Octopart (octopart.com)
80 points by dfranke on Jan 6, 2011 | 26 comments
22. Ask HN: Are you a solo creator?
79 points by iisbum on Jan 6, 2011 | 38 comments
23. Selling to small businesses is damn hard. Here’s How. (seancoleman.net)
78 points by bdclimber14 on Jan 6, 2011 | 13 comments
24. OKWS, the Ok Web Server (behind OK Cupid) (okws.org)
76 points by whalesalad on Jan 6, 2011 | 33 comments
25. Skype to Acquire Qik (skype.com)
75 points by hornokplease on Jan 6, 2011 | 15 comments
26. Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010) (reuters.com)
76 points by necolas on Jan 6, 2011 | 64 comments
27. Idea: Y Combinator for Startup Recruiting (adamsmith.cc)
72 points by adamsmith on Jan 6, 2011 | 32 comments
28. What skills do you need to be an entrepreneur? Only two. (sebastianmarshall.com)
73 points by strandev on Jan 6, 2011 | 33 comments
29. Zynga buys Flock (techcrunch.com)
73 points by dshankar on Jan 6, 2011 | 38 comments
30. Why Do Schools Fire Losing Coaches But Not Bad Teachers? (americanthinker.com)
72 points by solipsist on Jan 6, 2011 | 80 comments

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