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1. Schlep Blindness (paulgraham.com)
604 points by anateus on Jan 14, 2012 | 181 comments
2. Abolish the Department of Homeland Security (schneier.com)
332 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 | 54 comments
3. Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy (bemmu.posterous.com)
297 points by bemmu on Jan 14, 2012 | 126 comments
4. The White House's Response to SOPA (whitehouse.gov)
290 points by sim0n on Jan 14, 2012 | 148 comments
5. Search: .lenght - Github (github.com/search)
262 points by uyhayuy on Jan 14, 2012 | 102 comments
6. British student may be extradited to US on copyright charges (boingboing.net)
223 points by ubasu on Jan 14, 2012 | 79 comments
7. This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym (theatlantic.com)
218 points by waitwhat on Jan 14, 2012 | 121 comments
8. Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed (fastcompany.com)
189 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 | 21 comments
9. Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge (startssl.com)
180 points by vibrant on Jan 14, 2012 | 83 comments
10. Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle (ocks.org)
176 points by mbostock on Jan 14, 2012 | 37 comments
11. What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right (rondam.blogspot.com)
174 points by lisper on Jan 14, 2012 | 78 comments
12. US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison (torrentfreak.com)
158 points by nicki_easy on Jan 14, 2012 | 154 comments
13. Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA (arstechnica.com)
152 points by chaosmachine on Jan 14, 2012 | 35 comments
14. PyPy: Transactional Memory (II) (morepypy.blogspot.com)
122 points by megaman821 on Jan 14, 2012 | 39 comments
15. Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google (latimes.com)
104 points by benjlang on Jan 14, 2012 | 96 comments
16. Public datasets on AWS (amazon.com)
99 points by fs111 on Jan 14, 2012 | 17 comments
17. The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read (arstechnica.com)
92 points by zacharypinter on Jan 14, 2012 | 4 comments
18. Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty (corte.si)
91 points by llambda on Jan 14, 2012 | 39 comments
19. Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not (andrewdumont.me)
89 points by andrewdumont on Jan 14, 2012 | 71 comments
20. The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form (physics.info)
81 points by carlos on Jan 14, 2012 | 37 comments
21. Tablets take waiting out of restaurants: E la Carte on the cover of SF Chronicle (sfgate.com)
76 points by fredliu on Jan 14, 2012 | 51 comments
22. The impact of language choice on github projects (corte.si)
72 points by llambda on Jan 14, 2012 | 32 comments
23. SOPA Blackout participating sites (geeqer.com)
65 points by zaidrahman on Jan 14, 2012 | 11 comments
24. RetroShare: secure communications with friends (sourceforge.net)
63 points by nextparadigms on Jan 14, 2012 | 20 comments
25. SimpleGeo customers: Move your data to Geoloqi with one command (github.com/geoloqi)
54 points by kyledrake on Jan 14, 2012 | 9 comments
26. Why do most programmers work so hard at pretending that they’re not doing math? (richardminerich.com)
53 points by plinkplonk on Jan 14, 2012 | 69 comments
27. Soon cell towers will start following you (gigaom.com)
52 points by michaporat on Jan 14, 2012 | 30 comments
28. OK, MG, I Take It Back (techcrunch.com)
51 points by playhard on Jan 14, 2012 | 13 comments
29. Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts (davidpashley.com)
51 points by Feanim on Jan 14, 2012 | 21 comments
30. Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones (arstechnica.com)
45 points by eplanit on Jan 14, 2012 | 29 comments

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