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1. Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
650 points by mikecane on Dec 26, 2012 | 162 comments
2. The Flat Sink (sachagreif.com)
260 points by sgdesign on Dec 26, 2012 | 148 comments
3. The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me (37signals.com)
248 points by dcope on Dec 26, 2012 | 61 comments
4. Downtime last Saturday (github.com/blog)
199 points by Pr0 on Dec 26, 2012 | 104 comments
5. The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed (bloomberg.com)
189 points by lucaspiller on Dec 26, 2012 | 106 comments
6. Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
171 points by diminium on Dec 26, 2012 | 87 comments
7. Receiveee.com - disposable email address (receiveee.com)
166 points by kornnflake on Dec 26, 2012 | 123 comments
8. Desktop App for All Your Email (inky.com)
158 points by tortilla on Dec 26, 2012 | 152 comments
9. Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love (nytimes.com)
152 points by wallflower on Dec 26, 2012 | 55 comments
10. Why use SVM (yaksis.com)
147 points by cpleppert on Dec 26, 2012 | 33 comments
11. Advice for US entrepreneurs who move to Europe (martinvarsavsky.net)
143 points by jkaljundi on Dec 26, 2012 | 157 comments
12. Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy (mcfunley.com)
137 points by mcfunley on Dec 26, 2012 | 70 comments
13. The best things and stuff of 2012 (fogus.me)
133 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 26, 2012 | 13 comments
14. Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C (gmu.edu)
131 points by thealphanerd on Dec 26, 2012 | 69 comments
15. New school C (oreilly.com)
128 points by jamesbritt on Dec 26, 2012 | 151 comments
16. Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (1922) (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
113 points by mikecane on Dec 26, 2012 | 27 comments
17. Python for Beginners (pythonforbeginners.com)
103 points by codingblues on Dec 26, 2012 | 58 comments
18. Design Tips Every Developer Should Know (teamtreehouse.com)
97 points by nickpettit on Dec 26, 2012 | 18 comments
19. Scikit-learn: machine learning in Python (scikit-learn.org)
92 points by hypnotist on Dec 26, 2012 | 7 comments
20. Never Make Counter-Offers (2011) (bramcohen.com)
90 points by 127001brewer on Dec 26, 2012 | 57 comments
21. Hottest Indian Startups In 2012 (nextbigwhat.com)
87 points by sooperman on Dec 26, 2012 | 22 comments
22. Gmail phone calls remain free of charge in 2013 for US and Canada (engadget.com)
86 points by redDragon on Dec 26, 2012 | 74 comments
23. How Allied Fliers Used Monopoly to Escape From German POW Camps (warhistoryonline.com)
84 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 26, 2012 | 37 comments
24. Locating interesting parts of an image (iptech-group.com)
71 points by mmastrac on Dec 26, 2012 | 10 comments
25. The Long Strange Trip to Java (1996) (blinkenlights.com)
65 points by mariusae on Dec 26, 2012 | 14 comments
26. Randi Zuckerberg Also Confused About Facebook Privacy (cnbc.com)
64 points by codegeek on Dec 26, 2012 | 91 comments
27. Facebook ruins Zuckerberg Xmas (salon.com)
57 points by jamesbritt on Dec 26, 2012 | 32 comments
28. Google’s Mobile Future Is Now (techcrunch.com)
57 points by treskot on Dec 26, 2012 | 7 comments
29. New Technology Is Making Us More Like the Amish (slate.com)
53 points by pitt1980 on Dec 26, 2012 | 24 comments
30. Reminder: secret_token.rb is named so for a reason (biggestfool.tumblr.com)
53 points by Ryoku on Dec 26, 2012 | 55 comments

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