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1. SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb. (house.gov)
483 points by cjoh on Jan 17, 2012 | 56 comments
2. SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power" (arstechnica.com)
447 points by john2373 on Jan 17, 2012 | 155 comments
3. Elsevier = Evil (scienceblogs.com)
347 points by tokenadult on Jan 17, 2012 | 66 comments
4. What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago (cdt.org)
297 points by sethbannon on Jan 17, 2012 | 42 comments
5. Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free (vice.com)
281 points by ck2 on Jan 17, 2012 | 117 comments
6. Natural Language Processing with Python, free online (nltk.org)
255 points by motter on Jan 17, 2012 | 31 comments
7. Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click (grassroutes.us)
253 points by kandalf on Jan 17, 2012 | 48 comments
8. How to travel around the world for a year. (alexmaccaw.com)
248 points by maccman on Jan 17, 2012 | 121 comments
9. Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post] (opengeodata.org)
233 points by tecoholic on Jan 17, 2012 | 39 comments
10. SOPA is a Red Herring (curry.com)
233 points by perkins on Jan 17, 2012 | 43 comments
11. Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever (hackpad.com)
209 points by orph on Jan 17, 2012 | 77 comments
12. The worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter (wholelottanothing.org)
188 points by barredo on Jan 17, 2012 | 66 comments
13. How I Program Stuff (rdegges.com)
165 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 17, 2012 | 52 comments
14. Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap (theverge.com)
161 points by there on Jan 17, 2012 | 108 comments
15. Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts (postmarkapp.com)
162 points by alexknowshtml on Jan 17, 2012 | 62 comments
16. Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo (bootstrap.io)
160 points by synparb on Jan 17, 2012 | 59 comments
17. Yahoo Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang (businesswire.com)
155 points by privacyguru on Jan 17, 2012 | 80 comments
18. The "Army of One" entrepreneur (swombat.com)
139 points by anthony_franco on Jan 17, 2012 | 51 comments
19. Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition (jpf.github.com)
136 points by jf on Jan 17, 2012 | 72 comments
20. The Fixie Bike Index (priceonomics.com)
128 points by omarish on Jan 17, 2012 | 88 comments
21. New TeX engines compared: LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX (tex.stackexchange.com)
123 points by idle on Jan 17, 2012 | 8 comments
22. If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit (searchengineland.com)
118 points by SquareWheel on Jan 17, 2012 | 13 comments
23. Building Twitter bootstrap (alistapart.com)
116 points by steren on Jan 17, 2012 | 23 comments
24. More Water than Ever Found on the Moon (time.com)
112 points by switz on Jan 17, 2012 | 42 comments
25. Wozniak praising Android over iPhone limitations (reghardware.com)
111 points by larrydag on Jan 17, 2012 | 64 comments
26. The Anonymous User Pattern (roshfu.com)
110 points by choxi on Jan 17, 2012 | 21 comments
27. World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment (internetsociety.org)
102 points by danyork on Jan 17, 2012 | 41 comments
28. Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (javacodegeeks.com)
104 points by RiaDro on Jan 17, 2012 | 93 comments
29. Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow (pandodaily.com)
99 points by redditmigrant on Jan 17, 2012 | 25 comments
30. Codecademy Partners With The White House (codecademy.com)
93 points by bproper on Jan 17, 2012 | 56 comments

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