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31. U.S. website blackout draws praise in China (latimes.com)
84 points by nickolai on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
32. Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track (nytimes.com)
79 points by robg on Jan 20, 2012 | 65 comments
33. Do Great Things (techcrunch.com)
78 points by dabent on Jan 20, 2012 | 31 comments
34. SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now. (arstechnica.com)
72 points by vidyesh on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
35. Oops I ruined your life (cooper.com)
68 points by nreece on Jan 20, 2012 | 32 comments
36. How $99 and four hours every 2 weeks can provide rocket fuel to an Entrepreneur (terrybeech.com)
67 points by gootik on Jan 20, 2012 | 18 comments
37. How Google Spawned The 384-Chip Server (wired.com)
60 points by coolrhymes on Jan 20, 2012 | 23 comments
38. Google shutting down Picnik (picnik.com)
59 points by there on Jan 20, 2012 | 21 comments
39. The cleanest vimrc you'll ever see (yanpritzker.com)
52 points by skwp on Jan 20, 2012 | 36 comments
40. Eudora Goes Open Source (wiki.mozilla.org)
48 points by edu on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
41. iOS catches up to Android in December sales, thanks to iPhone 4S (arstechnica.com)
47 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2012 | 23 comments
42. Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brushes, shape poses, etc. (radiapp.com)
45 points by pavlov on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
43. Show HN: Skimling - A Platform to Help Kids Improve Their Writing (skimling.com)
44 points by jjets718 on Jan 20, 2012 | 44 comments
44. What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? (extremetech.com)
43 points by ukdm on Jan 20, 2012 | 25 comments
45. Kodak: Gone in a flash (economist.com)
42 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2012 | 14 comments
46. The State of NoSQL in 2012 (practicalcloudcomputing.com)
42 points by asteroid on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
47. Show HN: Charts for Hacker News Polls (hacksandthoughts.posterous.com)
40 points by sbashyal on Jan 20, 2012 | 15 comments
48. JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? (mathiasbynens.be)
37 points by mathias on Jan 20, 2012 | 15 comments
49. DOJ investigation yields fresh evidence against Google, Apple in lawsuit (engadget.com)
34 points by cooldeal on Jan 20, 2012 | 13 comments
50. MicroConf 2012: The Conference for Self Funded Startups (softwarebyrob.com)
36 points by gacba on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
51. Rust 0.1: first alpha version of the Rust programming language (mail.mozilla.org)
33 points by mbrubeck on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
52. Refuting the "Power Law for Serial Killer Behavior" study (umich.edu)
32 points by microtherion on Jan 20, 2012 | 2 comments
53. WOW Week at PatientsLikeMe (winfieldpeterson.com)
41 points by wpeterson on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
54. Confessions of a Binge Drinker (theatlantic.com)
32 points by nbj914 on Jan 20, 2012 | 21 comments
55. Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu (nytimes.com)
31 points by tokenadult on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
56. Summify Users: We're here for you. You're safe. (news.me)
36 points by jrlevine on Jan 20, 2012 | 4 comments
57. Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store (rubyonrails.org)
29 points by chaz on Jan 20, 2012
58. California HS student devises possible cancer cure (cbsnews.com)
28 points by shadowfiend on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
59. AppHarbor adds node.js support (appharbor.com)
29 points by runesoerensen on Jan 20, 2012 | 7 comments
60. Faster compression using an improved Fourier transform algorithm (theverge.com)
27 points by glymor on Jan 20, 2012

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