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1. A man, a mop, a year, and an app (thestartuptoolkit.com)
257 points by robfitz on Dec 28, 2011 | 27 comments
2. Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (newscientist.com)
242 points by p4bl0 on Dec 28, 2011 | 23 comments
3. Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
234 points by michael_nielsen on Dec 28, 2011 | 24 comments
4. 6 month read-through/discussion of Gödel, Escher, Bach starting 1/17 on Reddit (reddit.com)
228 points by qrush on Dec 28, 2011 | 80 comments
5. Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student (pennyhacks.com)
214 points by brudolph on Dec 28, 2011 | 102 comments
6. Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less (devttys0.com)
160 points by sbierwagen on Dec 28, 2011 | 29 comments
7. Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript (stackoverflow.com)
159 points by smharris65 on Dec 28, 2011 | 72 comments
8. The Coming War on General Purpose Computation (boingboing.net)
157 points by jamesbritt on Dec 28, 2011 | 26 comments
9. Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader (subpug.com)
153 points by spxdcz on Dec 28, 2011 | 69 comments
10. Multiple programming languages vulnerable to DoS via hash algorithm collision (ocert.org)
152 points by kmfrk on Dec 28, 2011 | 39 comments
11. Darts, Dice, and Coins: A beautiful article on a beautiful algorithm (keithschwarz.com)
145 points by robrenaud on Dec 28, 2011 | 13 comments
12. Its raining Haskell (msdn.com)
133 points by implmentor on Dec 28, 2011 | 4 comments
13. One congressman's opposition to SOPA worth noting (securityskeptic.typepad.com)
123 points by gapanalysis on Dec 28, 2011 | 26 comments
14. Engineer wins $1.9 million in "wrongful hire" suit against Seagate. (hirecentrix.com)
118 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 28, 2011 | 46 comments
15. On (Startup) Chile (hervalicio.us)
119 points by ew on Dec 28, 2011 | 58 comments
16. So You Want to Save the World (lesswrong.com)
112 points by inetsee on Dec 28, 2011 | 40 comments
17. URI.js is a facility for working with URLs (medialize.github.com)
109 points by wslh on Dec 28, 2011 | 43 comments
18. Parse Powered iOS Table Views: Remote Data Driven Tables in Minutes (parse.com)
94 points by jamesjyu on Dec 28, 2011 | 19 comments
19. The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us (nytimes.com)
92 points by tysone on Dec 28, 2011 | 145 comments
20. Infographic examples, ca. 1920s (creativereview.co.uk)
92 points by jschuur on Dec 28, 2011 | 12 comments
21. Photographers: Please Stop Using Flash (ohnozen.posterous.com)
87 points by ohnoes on Dec 28, 2011 | 72 comments
22. PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month (highscalability.com)
86 points by yarapavan on Dec 28, 2011 | 63 comments
23. Show HN: Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept) (self.li)
86 points by legierski on Dec 28, 2011 | 39 comments
24. There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript (sarajchipps.com)
82 points by johns on Dec 28, 2011 | 47 comments
25. British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot (bbc.co.uk)
80 points by shreex on Dec 28, 2011 | 60 comments
26. Design Patterns in Python (Free Book) (testingperspective.com)
80 points by okal on Dec 28, 2011 | 19 comments
27. Ember.js Live Collections (awardwinningfjords.com)
75 points by wycats on Dec 28, 2011 | 21 comments
28. Clojure & Java Interop (jayfields.com)
64 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 28, 2011 | 14 comments
29. Abstraction makes us stupid at business (thestartuptoolkit.com)
63 points by minecraftman on Dec 28, 2011 | 16 comments
30. Merchant Says Amazon Sabotaged Its Business (wsj.com)
58 points by FluidDjango on Dec 28, 2011 | 21 comments

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