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1. Tron Legacy (2010) (jtnimoy.net)
657 points by rsingla on Jan 21, 2013 | 143 comments
2. Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory? (unix.stackexchange.com)
413 points by rawland on Jan 21, 2013 | 153 comments
3. How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (utsalumni.org)
382 points by rrreese on Jan 21, 2013 | 150 comments
4. Programmer Interrupted (ninlabs.com)
366 points by Off on Jan 21, 2013 | 87 comments
5. What we discovered about InstallMonetizer
333 points by pg on Jan 21, 2013 | 178 comments
6. Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson (shayhowe.com)
315 points by shay-howe on Jan 21, 2013 | 48 comments
7. Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
294 points by danilocampos on Jan 21, 2013 | 115 comments
8. Taking payments online in Europe in 2013 (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
264 points by jmaskell on Jan 21, 2013 | 181 comments
9. The End of Ragequitting (codinghorror.com)
250 points by Anon84 on Jan 21, 2013 | 96 comments
10. When Haskell Is Not faster than C (jacquesmattheij.com)
250 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 21, 2013 | 219 comments
11. Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases (bostonherald.com)
213 points by chaostheory on Jan 21, 2013 | 157 comments
12. New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering" (coursera.org)
195 points by msprague on Jan 21, 2013 | 27 comments
13. Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place (freethroww.com)
152 points by nc on Jan 21, 2013 | 39 comments
14. Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet (whowhatwhy.com)
156 points by pccampbell on Jan 21, 2013 | 75 comments
15. Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself (scientificamerican.com)
151 points by roflc0ptic on Jan 21, 2013 | 92 comments
16. Ludde's FPGA NES (fpganes.blogspot.se)
149 points by jyrki on Jan 21, 2013 | 22 comments
17. My iOS 7 Wishlist (tomdale.net)
147 points by sciwiz on Jan 21, 2013 | 148 comments
18. Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads (gosquared.com)
146 points by gnw on Jan 21, 2013 | 25 comments
19. Why doesn't `kill -9` always work? (noah.org)
126 points by fool on Jan 21, 2013 | 52 comments
20. Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID (infoq.com)
113 points by sethev on Jan 21, 2013 | 26 comments
21. How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture (nytimes.com)
114 points by bensw on Jan 21, 2013 | 27 comments
22. Worst Bug Ever (swanson.github.com)
112 points by swanson on Jan 21, 2013 | 115 comments
23. Designer News (layervault.com)
105 points by petercooper on Jan 21, 2013 | 69 comments
24. Geography's The Fuck (jasonpunyon.com)
104 points by JasonPunyon on Jan 21, 2013 | 29 comments
25. Github blocked from China (viewdns.info)
103 points by hunvreus on Jan 21, 2013 | 66 comments
26. One div – The single element HTML/CSS icon database (one-div.com)
87 points by afoketunji on Jan 21, 2013 | 22 comments
27. Wikileaks Says Aaron Swartz Was a Possible Source (mashable.com)
85 points by ma2rten on Jan 21, 2013 | 53 comments
28. Successful Solo Startup Founders (softwaresmitten.com)
80 points by yoyo on Jan 21, 2013 | 17 comments
29. Empathy among students in engineering programmes (tandfonline.com)
79 points by oinkgrr on Jan 21, 2013 | 71 comments
30. Google Earth puts North Korea Labour camps on the map (rte.ie)
79 points by chemcoder on Jan 21, 2013 | 28 comments

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