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1. The New Web Typography (microsoft.com)
327 points by cleverjake on Jan 9, 2012 | 132 comments
2. Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government? (computerworld.com)
286 points by pash on Jan 9, 2012 | 53 comments
3. Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
270 points by nextparadigms on Jan 9, 2012 | 82 comments
4. Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
266 points by aespinoza on Jan 9, 2012 | 108 comments
5. In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50 (orau.org)
261 points by chaostheory on Jan 9, 2012 | 96 comments
6. Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes (holehouse.org)
250 points by alexholehouse on Jan 9, 2012 | 19 comments
7. Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA (reddit.com)
215 points by chaosmachine on Jan 9, 2012 | 90 comments
8. The $40 Standup Desk (opensoul.org)
206 points by bkeepers on Jan 9, 2012 | 102 comments
9. UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed (computerworlduk.com)
183 points by strawberryshake on Jan 9, 2012 | 57 comments
10. True Scala complexity (yz.mit.edu)
182 points by plinkplonk on Jan 9, 2012 | 148 comments
11. 84% of the investment gains from hedge fund went to the managers (plus.google.com)
176 points by Dobbs on Jan 9, 2012 | 87 comments
12. The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (2006) (scienceblogs.com)
173 points by m_for_monkey on Jan 9, 2012 | 127 comments
13. How To Work From Home Like You Mean It (fastcompany.com)
167 points by ifearthenight on Jan 9, 2012 | 73 comments
14. Twitter’s poor API documentation practices (gazit.me)
166 points by idan on Jan 9, 2012 | 39 comments
15. Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory (thisamericanlife.org)
163 points by tomeast on Jan 9, 2012 | 53 comments
16. Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites (github.com/jorgebastida)
163 points by juanriaza on Jan 9, 2012 | 32 comments
17. Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites (arcticstartup.com)
147 points by vilpponen on Jan 9, 2012 | 57 comments
18. MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications (github.com/maccman)
144 points by maccman on Jan 9, 2012 | 35 comments
19. Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks (scoutingny.com)
144 points by locopati on Jan 9, 2012 | 9 comments
20. Ubuntu TV unveiled (pcpro.co.uk)
141 points by g3orge on Jan 9, 2012 | 67 comments
21. B&N refuses to release source code of Nook Tablet, censors user requests (xda-developers.com)
138 points by recoiledsnake on Jan 9, 2012 | 38 comments
22. Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) (manning.com)
132 points by nathanmarz on Jan 9, 2012 | 65 comments
23. ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN (elias.kg)
128 points by eliaskg on Jan 9, 2012 | 34 comments
24. Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities (disqus.com)
134 points by simanyay on Jan 9, 2012 | 48 comments
25. Advanced programming languages (might.net)
125 points by gnosis on Jan 9, 2012 | 74 comments
26. Two-color Makerbot released (makerbot.com)
103 points by pingswept on Jan 9, 2012 | 24 comments
27. What’s Your Permanent Age? (2007) (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
103 points by suprgeek on Jan 9, 2012 | 37 comments
28. We're scheduling an anti-SOPA blackout for 1/18/12. Let Google & FB know. (reddit.com)
96 points by nextparadigms on Jan 9, 2012 | 27 comments
29. From Java to Node.js (n0tw0rthy.wordpress.com)
94 points by matan_a on Jan 9, 2012 | 10 comments
30. Idea to product in 4 months : End-to-end product and technical development diary (cherrypopapp.com)
85 points by plasma on Jan 9, 2012 | 30 comments

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