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1. If your client has a problem with a site, send them here and ask for details (supportdetails.com)
377 points by msacca on Jan 29, 2012 | 54 comments
2. Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple? (plus.google.com)
295 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 29, 2012 | 145 comments
3. The ethics of brain boosting (ox.ac.uk)
232 points by cromulent on Jan 29, 2012 | 130 comments
4. 25 Startup Ideas for 2012 (judegomila.com)
208 points by judegomila on Jan 29, 2012 | 164 comments
5. Ritalin Gone Wrong
200 points by cs702 on Jan 29, 2012 | 154 comments
6. Single-block collision for MD5 (marc-stevens.nl)
191 points by robinhouston on Jan 29, 2012 | 56 comments
7. Sorry, this blog post is not available in your country. (jelmerdejong.com)
186 points by jelmerdejong on Jan 29, 2012 | 69 comments
8. Ask HN: How do I start freelancing?
184 points by Sargis on Jan 29, 2012 | 53 comments
9. FTP Must Die (wooledge.org)
174 points by werdnanoslen on Jan 29, 2012 | 116 comments
10. Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk (stackoverflow.com)
152 points by sblom on Jan 29, 2012 | 23 comments
11. Why are column oriented databases so much faster than row oriented databases? (siganakis.com)
139 points by siganakis on Jan 29, 2012 | 42 comments
12. Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (nytimes.com)
134 points by ojbyrne on Jan 29, 2012 | 172 comments
13. Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect) (duck.com)
114 points by romland on Jan 29, 2012 | 63 comments
14. $270 Spark Linux tablet is powered by KDE Active Plasma (geek.com)
108 points by 11031a on Jan 29, 2012 | 37 comments
15. Stanford profs from DB & Machine Learning class are founding a company Coursera (plus.google.com)
108 points by dhawalhs on Jan 29, 2012 | 38 comments
16. Scientific Community to Elsevier: Drop Dead (umich.edu)
106 points by chrismealy on Jan 29, 2012 | 14 comments
17. German hackers plan DIY space program (popsci.com.au)
105 points by bootload on Jan 29, 2012 | 24 comments
18. How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub (confreaks.com)
103 points by pron on Jan 29, 2012 | 15 comments
19. The man who hand-draws fractals (newappsblog.com)
102 points by dfield on Jan 29, 2012 | 18 comments
20. Your Users Won't Read (w2lessons.com)
101 points by mwbiz on Jan 29, 2012 | 23 comments
21. The Real Problem with Facebook's Timeline (remarkedly.com)
99 points by krausejj on Jan 29, 2012 | 54 comments
22. I want to help you learn or practice iOS development
94 points by revolvingcur on Jan 29, 2012 | 14 comments
23. Simple Responsive Design Test Page - bookmarklet (benjaminkeen.com)
92 points by cleverjake on Jan 29, 2012 | 20 comments
24. The Early Early Stage (keen.io)
90 points by dorkitude on Jan 29, 2012 | 9 comments
25. Context Free - a program that generates images from written instructions (contextfreeart.org)
82 points by Garbage on Jan 29, 2012 | 11 comments
26. Pixar and RenderMan: Changing the distributed rendering game (icrontic.com)
79 points by UPSLynx on Jan 29, 2012 | 13 comments
27. Clojure is One Answer (onbeyondlambda.blogspot.com)
77 points by pron on Jan 29, 2012 | 16 comments
28. Django ORM vs. SQLAlchemy (reddit.com)
72 points by googletron on Jan 29, 2012 | 24 comments
29. India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President (forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza)
69 points by Garbage on Jan 29, 2012 | 30 comments
30. ZooKeeper: Updating thousands of configuration files in under a second (zynga.com)
55 points by jondot on Jan 29, 2012 | 3 comments

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